{"id":31680,"date":"2024-01-31T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=31680"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:43:14","slug":"former-prime-minister-imran-khan-his-wife-bushra-bibi-get-14-years-in-prison-in-toshakana-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/31680","title":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi get 14 years in prison in Toshakana case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The court also imposed Rs.787 million fine each and also barred them for holding any public office for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cyet another kangaroo trial in which no right to defence was given to both\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cLike cipher, this case has no basis to stand in any higher court. It\u2019s shameful how a complete disregard and mockery of the law is in place,\u201d the PTI added.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, it said, \u201cBig 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.\u201d<br \/>\nImran\u2019s sister Aleema Khan said that the \u201cjudicial system has buried itself\u201d today.<\/p>\n<p>PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that the conviction was \u201cnot only injustice but cruelty\u201d.<br \/>\nIn an apparent reference to the PML-N, he said the NAB was \u201cwithdrawing cases filed against a certain party\u201d but at the same time was handing over \u201csevere punishments just to make one leader happy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31682,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31680\/revisions\/31682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}