{"id":57356,"date":"2023-08-08T17:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/imran-khan-challenge-graft-conviction-pakistan-high-court-former-prime-minister-jail"},"modified":"2023-08-08T23:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:01:38","slug":"imran-khan-to-challenge-graft-conviction-in-pakistan-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57356","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan challenges corruption conviction in Pakistan high court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister was sentenced to three years in jail and disqualified from politics<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has appealed against his conviction and three-year sentence on corruption charges, four days after he was jailed and barred from politics in a case threatening to worsen political uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Naeem Panjutha, said the petition challenging Khan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/05\/former-pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-jailed-for-three-years\">conviction on charges of selling state gifts unlawfully<\/a> during his 2018-22 term as prime minister had been filed on Tuesday in the Islamabad high court, which would hear the case on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/imran-khan-challenge-graft-conviction-pakistan-high-court-former-prime-minister-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister was sentenced to three years in jail and disqualified from politicsPakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has appealed against his conviction and three-year sentence on corruption charges, four days after he was jailed and ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"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-57356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57356","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57356\/revisions\/57378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}