{"id":61638,"date":"2024-02-04T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/03\/imran-khan-wife-bushra-bibi-sentenced-pakistan-marriage-case"},"modified":"2024-02-04T00:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:10:54","slug":"imran-khan-and-his-wife-sentenced-in-un-islamic-marriage-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61638","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan and his wife sentenced in \u2018un-Islamic\u2019 marriage case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani former PM says case was created to \u2018humiliate\u2019 him and Bushra Bibi, who were sentenced to seven years each<\/p>\n<p>A local court in Pakistan has sentenced Imran Khan, the country\u2019s former prime minister, and his wife to seven years each in a case related to their marriage, which it declared \u201cun-Islamic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Khan and Bushra Bibi were both last week separately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-sentenced-prison-14-years-corruption-charges\">handed 14-year sentences in a corruption case<\/a>, known as Toshakhana, for illegally selling state gifts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/03\/imran-khan-wife-bushra-bibi-sentenced-pakistan-marriage-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani former PM says case was created to \u2018humiliate\u2019 him and Bushra Bibi, who were sentenced to seven years eachA local court in Pakistan has sentenced Imran Khan, the country\u2019s former prime minister, and his wife to seven years each in a case rela&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3615,"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-61638","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\/61638","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\/3615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61638\/revisions\/61639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}