{"id":61548,"date":"2024-01-31T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-sentenced-prison-14-years-corruption-charges"},"modified":"2024-02-01T00:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:48:54","slug":"imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61548","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan, Pakistan former PM, sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling against Khan and wife Bushra Bibi comes just a day after a 10-year sentence was handed down, and just before Pakistan goes to the polls in a general election<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a corruption case, a day after he was given a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/imran-khan-pm-sentenced-prison-pakistan\">10-year sentence<\/a> for leaking state secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s wife, Bushra Bibi, was also handed a 14-year sentence in the case, known as Toshakhana, which accused them both of illegally selling state gifts. The judge also banned them both from holding political office for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-sentenced-prison-14-years-corruption-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling against Khan and wife Bushra Bibi comes just a day after a 10-year sentence was handed down, and just before Pakistan goes to the polls in a general electionPakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61548","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61548\/revisions\/61562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}