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Verdict comes a day after one other court docket convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and techniques and gave him a 10-year jail sentence.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case associated to unlawful promoting of state items.
The sentencing by an anti-corruption court docket in capital Islamabad on Wednesday comes a day after Khan was handed a 10-year jail term in one other case wherein he was convicted of unveiling state secrets and techniques, and every week earlier than nationwide elections.
It was not instantly clear if Khan’s sentences have been to run consecutively or concurrently.
Khan was additionally handed a three-year jail sentence in August by one other court docket for selling gifts price greater than 140 million rupees ($501,000) in state possession and acquired throughout his 2018-2022 premiership.
The sentence was later suspended however Khan stays behind bars in reference to different instances. He has stated he legally bought the gadgets. Authorities officers have alleged Khan’s aides offered the items in Dubai.
Bushra Bibi had been on remand all through the trial. The pair married in 2018, months earlier than Khan was elected prime minister.
The court docket additionally disqualified Khan for years from holding any public workplace forward of February 8 parliamentary elections.
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