Image Source : AP (FILE) Pakistan Former PM Imran Khan along with his spouse Bushra Bibi in a courtroom.
Islamabad: Incarcerated former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s troubles refuse to finish as he was once more sentenced to a 14-year time period in jail, alongside his spouse Bushra Bibi, within the Toshakhana case, Dawn reported. The sentence got here sooner or later after he and his deputy Shah Mahmood Qureshi had been sentenced to 10 years in jail within the cipher case for allegedly leaking state secrets and techniques.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a contemporary case final month towards Imran and his spouse for retaining a jewelry set acquired from the Saudi crown prince towards an undervalued evaluation. The verdict comes eight days earlier than the February 8 normal elections, which Imran’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is contesting amid a state crackdown and with out an electoral image.
Accountability Judge Mohammad Bashir carried out the listening to at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, the place Imran at present stays imprisoned. The couple had been additionally barred from holding any public workplace for 10 years and slapped with a effective of Rs 787 million. While Imran attended the listening to, his spouse didn’t seem earlier than the court docket.
Imran’s spouse Bushra Bibi recorded her assertion within the Toshakhana case on Tuesday. The former PM alleged that his spouse had nothing to do with the case and was being humiliated by being forcibly dragged into it, in response to Geo News. “I have been deceived as I was only called to mark my attendance for the hearing,” mentioned the PTI founder.
Imran had requested the court docket to permit his legal professionals to cross-question three key witnesses within the case, together with an appraiser and the navy secretary. However, the choose had already closed the proper of cross-examination of the prosecution witnesses and requested Imran and his partner to report their statements below Section 342 of Pakistan’s Code of Criminal Procedure.
The PTI founder mentioned his authorized crew had procured proof of the particular worth of the ‘Graff jewellery’ which was Rs 180 million, however the prosecution evaluated its value to be over Rs 3 billion. “I am in a position to refute the testimonies of the appraiser,” he claimed.
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Source: www.indiatvnews.com
