Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were each sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to illegal selling of state gifts, his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said on Wednesday.
The verdict also includes a 10-year disqualification from holding public office.
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00:00 Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were each sentenced
00:07 to 14 years in jail in a case related to illegal selling of state gifts.
00:12 His party Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf said verdict also includes a 10-year disqualification from
00:18 holding public office.
00:20 The sentencing by an anti-graff court in Islamabad comes a day after Khan was handed a 10-year
00:26 jail term in another case in which he was convicted of revealing state secrets and a
00:32 week before national elections.
00:35 Khan was also handed a three-year prison sentence in August by another court for selling gifts
00:40 in state possession and received during his 2018-2022 premiership.
00:46 He has said that he legally purchased the state gifts.
00:49 Government officials have alleged Khan's aides sold the gifts in Dubai.
00:54 Khan's earlier three-year sentence was later suspended, but he remains behind bars in connection
01:00 with other cases.
01:01 While Khan has been found guilty in two separate cases, this is the first sentencing for his
01:06 wife Bushra.
01:08 The two were married in 2018, months before Khan ascended to premiership for the first
01:13 time.
01:14 It was Khan's third marriage after two divorces.
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