Imran Khan

January 17, 2025 3:13 PM

Know the cases against Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan and his wife

A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a land corruption case, his legal team said. The verdict in the case, the largest in terms of financial wrongdoing faced by Khan, was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been jailed since August 2023. Here are some of the allegations against the 72-year-old former cricket star, named in dozens of c...

January 17, 2025 1:28 PM

Pakistan court sentences ex-PM Imran Khan to 14 years in land graft case: report

A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, local broadcaster ARY News reported. The verdict in the case, the largest in terms of financial wrongdoing faced by Khan, was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been jailed since August 2023. The former cricket star, 72, had been indictedon charges that he and his wife were gifted land by a real estate developer ...

December 23, 2024 2:38 PM

Pakistan: Islamabad court postpones verdict against Imran Khan, his wife in Al-Qadir Trust case

An Islamabad accountability court has postponed its verdict in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust corruption case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi. The decision, which had been reserved on December 18 and scheduled for announcement today, was deferred due to the upcoming winter court vacations and ongoing judicial obligations, Dawn reported. Presiding over Monday’s hearing, Judge Nasir Javed Rana informed the court that the verdict would not be...

October 24, 2024 6:09 PM

Pakistan: Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi granted bail in Toshakhana-II case

Bushra Bibi, the wife of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has been granted bail by the Islamabad High Court in the Toshakhana-II case. Bushra was released from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail under tight security, where her husband and his sisters are also being held. Her release comes after nine months in prison, with bail set at Rs 10 lakh. With Imran Khan still incarcerated, Bushra Bibi’s freedom positions her as a key figure for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party Khan leads....

July 31, 2024 2:40 PM

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan says he is ready to hold talks with the military

Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has said his party is ready to hold "conditional negotiations" with the country's powerful military and has appointed a representative for the talks. "We will hold conditional negotiations if the military leadership appoints its representative," according to a post from Khan's official X handle on Wednesday, which cited a message from him from inside a jail on Tuesday. The military's media wing did not immediately respond to request for commen...

July 30, 2024 12:50 PM

Pakistan: Major victory for Imran Khan as election commission recognizes 93 lawmakers as PTI candidates

In a major boost for former premier Imran Khan and his embattled party, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has officially recognized 93 lawmakers from the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh assemblies as "returned candidates" of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), following a Supreme Court order regarding reserved seats, Geo News reported. The development, which makes Imran Khan-founded PTI the largest party in the national assembly, came days after the election watchdog declared 39 P...

July 24, 2024 3:20 PM

“Shehbaz Sharif govt firm on banning Imran’s party” says Pakistan information minister

Pakistan's Information Minister Attatullah Tarar doubled down on his stance to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf while speaking on Pakistan-based Geo News' program "Capital Talk" on Tuesday, Pakistan-based Geo News reported. The Information Minister said that the ruling government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will go ahead with the "principled" decision to ban Imran Khan's party and it will be varied after relevant legal consultations, Geo News reported. The announcement came in the ...

July 22, 2024 3:56 PM

Pakistan police detains jailed ex-PM Imran Khan’s aides, says his party

Pakistani police detained two close aides of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday in a raid on his party secretariat but later released one of them, the party and local media said. A police contingent cordoned off the secretariat in Islamabad and detained the party's acting chairman Gohar Khan and its secretary information Rauf Hasan, a party spokesman Zulfikar Bukhari told Reuters in a Whatsapp message. His Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said later that the acting chairman ...

July 15, 2024 6:15 PM

Pakistan to ban Imran Khan’s party, file treason case against ex-PM

Pakistan is planning to ban former Prime Minister Imran Khan's political party and move the country's top court to press treason charges against him, the information minister said on Monday. The move to ban Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was based on the "proven" charge of the party receiving foreign funds from sources that are illegal in Pakistan, and rioting by its supporters last year that targeted military installations, Minister Attaullah Tarar said. "The federal government will move a ca...

July 12, 2024 2:56 PM

Imran Khan’s party wins reserved seats in Pakistan’s parliament

Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party was eligible for over 20 extra reserved seats in the national legislature, ramping up pressure on the country's weak coalition government. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party candidates contested the Feb. 8 election as independents after it was barred from the polls. They won the most seats but the election commission said independents were ineligible for the grant of 70 reserved seats, meant f...