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Islamabad: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in a Land corruption case. The conviction and sentencing have come in £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case in which Imran and Bushra have been found guilty of obtaining billions of rupees and land worth hundreds of kanals from Bahria Town Ltd for legalising Rs 50 billion that was identified and returned to the country by the United Kingdom during Khan’s premiership, according to Dawn newspaper.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister and 1992 ODI World Cup winning captain Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. Imran Khan also did not declare the gifts he received as Prime Minister in tax and sold them.
Imran and Bushra have also been handed fines of Rs 10,00,000 Rs 500,000 respectively and the failure to pay the fine would carry a six-month jail sentence. Imran Khan’s political troubles have already increased. Imran was already banned from contesting elections for any political post for five years, but now it has been increased to ten years.
Imran’s wife Bushra also sentenced
Ever since he was removed from the post of Prime Minister after a no-confidence vote in April 2022, Imran’s legal troubles have been mounting as there are more than a hundred cases registered against him. However, this is the first time that the legal system has sentenced his wife to jail as well. Unlike Imran, she was not kept in jail.
The former cricket star, 72, had been indicted on charges that he and his wife were gifted land by a real estate developer during his premiership from 2018 to 2022 in exchange for illegal favours.
The verdict is the biggest setback for Khan and his party since a surprisingly good showing in the 2024 general election when its candidates – who were forced to contest as independents – won the most seats, but fell short of the majority needed to form a government.
