{"id":44516,"date":"2025-01-17T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44516"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:08:28","slug":"pakistans-imran-khan-handed-14-year-jail-term-in-land-graft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44516","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan handed 14-year jail term in land graft case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 17  &#8211; A Pakistani court sentenced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/why-is-pakistans-former-pm-imran-khan-jail-2024-11-26\/\">former Prime Minister Imran Khan<\/a>\u00a0to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/pakistan-ex-pm-khans-party-holds-talks-with-government-ahead-ruling-graft-case-2025-01-16\/\">talks<\/a>\u00a0between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan&#8217;s wife Bushra Bibi was also found guilty and sentenced to 7 years in prison. She was out on bail but was taken into custody after the judgment was pronounced, Geo News reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar told reporters that Khan&#8217;s party could reach out to higher courts to appeal against the ruling, and that the former cricket star could also file a mercy petition to the president of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omar Ayub, an aide of Khan, said the party will challenge the verdict in higher courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former premier, 72, had been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-wife-indicted-graft-case-geo-news-2024-02-27\/\">indicted<\/a>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan and Bibi had pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case is linked to the Al-Qadir Trust, a non-government welfare body the couple set up when Khan was in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) ISLAMABAD, Jan 17 &#8211; A Pakistani court sentenced\u00a0former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u00a0to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent\u00a0talks\u00a0between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation. 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&#8217;s wife Bushra Bibi was also found guilty and sentenced to 7 years in prison. She was out on bail but was taken into custody after the judgment was pronounced,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44518,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions\/44518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}