NEW DELHI: Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 14 years in jail in Toshakhana case by an anti-graft court in Islamabad, the Geo News reported on Wednesday.
The sentence comes a day after Khan was sentenced to ten years in prison for disclosing state secrets in another case, and only a week before national elections.
The case alleges that Khan “deliberately concealed” details of the gifts he retained from the Toshaskhana, a repository where presents handed to government officials from foreign officials are kept, during his time as the prime minister and proceeds from their reported sales.
In August 2023, another court sentenced Khan to three years in prison for selling presents worth more than 140 million rupees ($501,000) in state possession and received during his 2018-2022 premiership.
The government's list of Toshakhana gifts, made public in March last year, revealed an evident preference for wrist watches among Pakistan's public office holders.
According to the report, Khan took away seven wrist watches valued Rs 96.6 million during his stint as prime minister, ranking second among all three parties in terms of evaluated value of watches retained.
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