RAWALPINDI: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been jailed for 14 years in the Toshakhana case on Wednesday.
They have also been barred from holding any public office for 10 years and were slapped with a collective fine of Rs787 million. As per media reports, Bushra Bibi did not appear before the accountability court today. Accountability court Judge Mohammad Bashir conducted the hearing at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, where the former premier is imprisoned.
The verdict comes just a day after a special court constituted under the Official Secrets Act sentenced the founder of PTI, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail for the breach of state secrets.
Earlier, the accountability court had sentenced three years in jail in the same case, which was overruled by the Islamabad High Court, ordering a rehearing of the case.
It is pertinent to mention here that the special court constituted under the Official Secrets Act on Tuesday sentenced the founder chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail for leaking secret documents that revealed the United States (US) involvement in undermining him and his government.
