A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation, APA reports citing Reuters.
The verdict in the case was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been jailed since August 2023.
Khan's wife Bushra Bibi was also found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison. She was out on bail but was taken into custody after the judgment was pronounced, Geo News reported. Khan's party confirmed that Bibi was moved to a prison cell at the same jail as Khan, after a medical checkup.
"The accused Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi is hereby held guilty for commission of offence of corruption and corrupt practices," read the detailed court order shared by Khan's party, adding that his wife was also found guilty of "aiding, assisting and abetting" corrupt practices.
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