{"id":17962,"date":"2024-01-31T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T07:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17962"},"modified":"2024-01-31T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T07:17:23","slug":"pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-wife-sentenced-to-14-years-in-state-gifts-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-wife-sentenced-to-14-years-in-state-gifts-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan, wife sentenced to 14 years in state gifts case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Pakistan\u2019s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to the illegal selling of state gifts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An accountability court in Rawalpindi, which deals with corruption cases, on Wednesday also ruled that the couple would be ineligible to contest for public office for 10 years while also slapping a fine of 757 million rupees ($2.7m).<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing came a day after Khan was given a 10-year prison term\u00a0for revealing state secrets. It was unclear whether the sentences were to run consecutively or concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>Khan was handed a three-year prison sentence in August for\u00a0selling gifts\u00a0worth more than 140 million rupees ($501,000) he received when he was the prime minister from 2018 to April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Though Khan secured bail, he remained in jail facing trial in other cases.<\/p>\n<p>The convictions against arguably Pakistan\u2019s most popular politician came about a week before the general elections on February 8.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>SOURCE: AL JAZEERA<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Pakistan\u2019s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to the illegal selling of state gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,976,982,7,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-politics","category-international","category-headline","category-pakistan"],"views":48,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17965,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions\/17965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}