Imran Khan sentenced: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in jail; Wife Bushra Bibi sentenced to seven years

By Sandy Verma On Jan 18, 2025

Former PM of Pakistan Imran Khan: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan was on Friday convicted in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case. In this case, PTI founder Imran Khan was sentenced to 14 years in jail and his wife was sentenced to seven years in jail. This information has been given in the report of Pakistan's Dawn News.

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Judge Nasir Javed Rana delivered the verdict – which has been postponed three times before, in a makeshift court in Adiala jail, Pakistan's Dawn News reports. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 million and Rs 500,000 on Imran and Bushra respectively. Failure to pay the fine will result in six months jail. The verdict was pronounced outside Adiala jail amid tight security, after which Bushra was arrested from the court room. The couple was charged in the case on February 27, 2024, soon after the general elections.

The case alleges that Imran and Bushra Bibi obtained billions of rupees and hundreds of kanals of land from Bahria Town Limited, in order to launder Rs 50 billion, which was recognized by the United Kingdom during the previous PTI government and given to the country. Was returned. On December 23 – the day the verdict was to be pronounced – Islamabad's accountability court postponed its verdict in the case till January 6 due to winter holidays. On January 6, the verdict could not be pronounced as Judge Nasir Javed Rana, who was hearing the case, was on leave. In the next hearing on January 13, the judge cited Imran and Bushra's non-appearance before the accountability court in Adiala jail as the reason for the delay.

#BREAKING Former premier Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi on Friday were convicted in the £190m Al-Qadir Trust case with the PTI founder being sentenced to 14 years in prison and a seven-year jail term handed to his wife.https://t.co/LPb1Fkilyo
— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) January 17, 2025
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Speaking to the media outside Adiala jail ahead of the hearing, PTI chairman Barrister Gauhar Ali Khan had said: “You can imagine how much injustice has happened in the last two years. “If there is a fair verdict, Imran and Bushra will be acquitted,” he said. Imran was sent to jail in August 2023 in several legal cases, which he claims were “politically motivated”. Last year he was acquitted in the Sifar and Iddat cases, but in December he was charged in the Toshakhana 2 case.