Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Former Pakistan PM handed 2nd jail term in 2 days as election looms

A man in a blue dress shirt and blue vest sits at a desk. To his right, also seated at the desk, a woman in a black dress and hijab, signs a piece of paper.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another special court convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistan-imran-khan-corruption-sentence-prison-1.7100092?cmp=rss