RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A Pakistan court on Friday convicted former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, and his wife Bushra Bibi in a landmark graft case, sentencing Khan to 14 years in prison.
Khan has been held in custody since August 2023, charged with around 200 cases, but his party claims the latest conviction was being used to pressure him into silence.'I will neither make any deal nor seek any relief,' Khan told reporters inside the courtroom after his conviction.The anti-graft court convened in the jail near the capital Islamabad where Khan is being held, and convicted him along with his wife over a welfare foundation they established together called the Al-Qadir Trust.
The sentence has been delayed several times over the past month, with analysts saying the jail term was being used to pressure Khan into accepting a deal with the military to step back from politics.Since being ousted from power in 2022, Khan has launched an unprecedented campaign in which he has openly criticized the country's powerful generals.Khan has been previously handed four convictions, two of which have been overturned while the sentences in the other two cases were suspended.
Ex-PM Gets 14 Years In Graft Case
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