Pakistan court suspends Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi's sentence in Toshakhana case

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sentenced in the case by an Islamabad accountability court on January 31. A day later, they were sentenced to seven years in jail each in a case related to their marriage during the latter’s Iddat period. The duo married in 2018, months before Khan was elected prime minister.

Before this, Khan and his foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi were sentenced to 10 years in prison under the Official Secrets Act in connection with the cipher case. Imran Khan, the 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician, was accused of retaining expensive state gifts they received during his tenure as Pakistan's premier. Following his conviction in the Toshakhana corruption case, Khan was barred from politics for five years by Pakistan's election commission.

This happened days before the general election in Pakistan. Under the rules governing Toshakhana — a Persian word meaning "treasure house" — government officials can keep gifts by paying a price for them but first the gift should be deposited. Tosakhana is a department under the Cabinet Division which keeps gifts and expensive things received by all public officials.

Khan and his wife either failed to deposit the gift or got it for a low price by allegedly using their authority. Khan has been in jail since August last year and just before the February 8 polls, he was sentenced to a 31-year jail term in three different cases. In total, he is facing over 200 cases.