{"id":57294,"date":"2023-08-05T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T10:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/05\/former-pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-jailed-for-three-years"},"modified":"2023-08-06T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T18:58:37","slug":"former-pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-sentenced-to-three-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57294","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan: former Pakistan prime minister sentenced to three years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khan arrested in Lahore after court ruling bans him from politics for five years for corruption<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been arrested after a court in Islamabad sentenced him to three years in jail and disqualified him from politics for \u201ccorrupt practices\u201d involving the sale of state gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, 70, was picked up by police from his home in Lahore on Saturday after a court ruled on the Toshakhana case, in which he was accused of illegally selling gifts from heads of state worth hundreds of millions of rupees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/05\/former-pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-jailed-for-three-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khan arrested in Lahore after court ruling bans him from politics for five years for corruptionPakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been arrested after a court in Islamabad sentenced him to three years in jail and disqualified him from polit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57300,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57294\/revisions\/57300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}