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The decision comes a day after one other court docket convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and techniques and handed him a 10-year jail time period.
Islamabad, Pakistan – The previous Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case associated to the unlawful sale of state presents.
An accountability court docket – which offers with corruption instances – in Rawalpindi on Wednesday additionally declared that the couple can be ineligible to run for public workplace for 10 years, whereas additionally slapping a positive of 757 million rupees (2 .7 million {dollars}).
The sentence got here a day after Khan was given a 10 years in jail to disclose state secrets and techniques. It was not instantly clear whether or not the sentences have been to be run consecutively or concurrently.
Khan was sentenced to a few years in jail in August for promoting presents price greater than 140 million rupees ($501,000) that he obtained when he was prime minister from 2018 to April 2022.
Though he was granted bail, he remained in jail to face trial in different instances.
The convictions in opposition to Pakistan's hottest politician got here every week earlier than common elections to be held on February 8.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has already been stripped of its electoral image, with most of its candidates contesting as independents.
PTI official Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari mentioned the sentence in opposition to Khan was “one other unhappy day in Pakistan's judicial historical past” and questioned its legitimacy.
“The judiciary has been dismantled. A mistaken resolution meant to be suspended by the upper court docket, because the witnesses appeared clearly compromised,” he instructed Al Jazeera.
“The star witnesses have been modified … with no cross-examination allowed, no closing arguments concluded, and the choice seems as a predetermined course of at stake. This ridiculous resolution will probably be challenged in greater courts.”
