Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan, wife get 14 years jail in corruption case
Islamabad, Feb. 1 -- Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced to 14 years in jail 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.
"Another sad day in our judicial system history, which is being dismantled," a spokesperson for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party told media. 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.
"Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi have bee...
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