Islamabad: Former prime minister and founder of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by the accountability court in Toshakhana case.
Former PTI chairman Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were charged with retaining a jewelry set received from Saudi crown prince against an undervalued assessment and other gifts from different heads of state and foreign dignitaries.
The court also imposed Rs.787 million fine each and also barred them for holding any public office for 10 years.
PTI however termed the court order as complete destruction of law. In a social media statement, PTI said that Imran and his spouse had faced “yet another kangaroo trial in which no right to defence was given to both”.
“Like cipher, this case has no basis to stand in any higher court. It’s shameful how a complete disregard and mockery of the law is in place,” the PTI added.
In another post, it said, “Big question marks arise on our judicial system now. How the cipher and Toshakhana cases were conducted exposed a complete disregard of law by trial court.”
Imran’s sister Aleema Khan said that the “judicial system has buried itself” today.
PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that the conviction was “not only injustice but cruelty”.
In an apparent reference to the PML-N, he said the NAB was “withdrawing cases filed against a certain party” but at the same time was handing over “severe punishments just to make one leader happy”.
