06-08-2023 13:29 via ctvnews.ca

From high office to high security prison for ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan after court sentencing

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke Sunday as an inmate in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics. The court ruled Saturday that national cricketing hero Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022 but remains the country's leading opposition figure, had concealed assets after selling state gifts. The prison sentence could bar him from politics under a law that prohibit
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