Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan's lawyers cannot reach him in jail - spokesperson

Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s lawyers to apply for bail

Lawyers for Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan were Tuesday set to file a bail application for him, as he languished in a small cell of a century-old prison at the start of a three-year jail term for graft.

Imran Khan’s jail sentence: Former Pakistan leader sentenced to 3 years in prison for graft

Pakistan's opposition leader Imran Khan has been taken into custody on Saturday and sentenced to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts given to him while in office. The conviction means the 70 year old will not be able to take part in any election for the next five years. The former prime minister denies wrong doing and says it's part of a political campaign against him by the military. For more, FRANCE 24 is joined from London…

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s lawyers cannot reach him in jail, spokesperson says

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyers could not reach him on Sunday after he spent the night in a jail near the capital following his arrest the previous day on a corruption conviction, spokespeople said. Khan was taken by police from his home in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday and transferred to Attock prison just outside Islamabad, where a court had convicted him of charges arising over the sale of s…

Imran Khan's lawyers to challenge his 3-year jail term; demand confinement in 'B-class' cell for now

Pakistan's ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan's legal team is set to challenge his three-year jail term after the cricket star-turned-politician was sentenced by a court for illegally selling state gifts when he was in office. Khan has been disqualified from participating in national elections for the next five years. The ex-international cricket icon was apprehended at his residence on Saturday on corruption charges that he asserted in a video m

Imran Khan’s ‘life under threat’ in jail, says Pakistan ex-PM’s party

Khan was arrested and sent to jail for three years following his conviction in corruption case by a court in Islamabad.

Ex-Pakistan leader Imran Khan's lawyers to challenge graft sentence that has ruled him out of elections

The cricket star-turned prime minister was convicted on charges he's always insisted are politically motivated, and which bar him from seeking a new term.