FORMER Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife have been sentenced to seven years in prison over their illegal marriage.
It is the third ruling in just a week to hit the former leader, who was sentenced to 10 years for leaking state secrets and 14 with his wife for illegally selling state gifts.
AFPPakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan with his wife Bushra Bibi[/caption]
Imran, 71, has been barred from Pakistan’s national elections on Thursday
A court on Saturday ruled that their 2018 marriage broke the law and fined them along with the seven year sentencing.
The former playboy ex-cricket star, 71, was ousted from Pakistani government through a no-confidence vote in April 2022 after being elected into office in 2018.
Khan is currently serving a three-year prison sentence over corruption allegations.
And an Islamabad court found him guilty of illegally selling state gifts last August – a charge the politician denied.
He was sentenced just days ago to a decade in prison for leaking official secrets alongside one of his party deputies.
And the very next day Khan and his wife were accused of keeping and selling on state gifts during his time in power.
They were sentenced to 14 years as a result.
The sentences come ahead of the February 8 parliamentary elections in Pakistan.
He is barred from participating in the national elections on Thursday.
Khan’s party previously said it would challenge the ruling on leaking of official secrets and called it a “sham case”.
Although Khan will not be on the ballot for the February election, he remains a potent political force because of his grassroots following and anti-establishment rhetoric.
He claims the legal cases against him are plots to sideline him ahead of the vote.
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