Pakistan's ex-PM, wife get 14 years jail in state gifts case

 

In a second such sentence in as many days, Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 14 years in prison in the state gifts case, also known as the Toshakhana case, on Wednesday.

The sentence was announced by a court in the northeastern garrison city of Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail where the former premier is imprisoned, according to Anadolu Agency.

On Tuesday, Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were sentenced to 10 years in prison over an alleged breach of State Secrets Act.

- Bernama