Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan gestures as he speaks during an interview with AFP at his residence in Lahore on 18 May 2023.
Former
Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced Wednesday to 14
years in jail, local media said, after being found guilty of graft in a case
involving gifts he received while premier.
The
verdict, a week before national elections, comes a day after Khan was given a
prison sentence of 10 years in a case related to leaking state secrets.
It
was not immediately clear if Khan’s sentences were to run consecutively or
concurrently following a trial held inside the jail where he has been detained
for much of the time since his arrest in August.
Khan’s
wife, Bushra Bibi, had been on remand throughout the trial.
The
pair married in 2018, months before Khan was elected prime minister.
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