What cases is Imran Khan facing?

What cases is Imran Khan facing?

Key points

• Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi were sentenced to seven-year jail terms after a trial court ruled in February 2024 that their 2018 marriage broke Islamic injunctions.
• Imran was convicted in 2024 of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington in 2022.
• That sentence was afterwards suspended, but in January 2024, an anti-graft court sentenced the ousted PM and his wife to 14 years in jail in the same case.
• Imran is facing a trial under anti-terrorism charges in connection with violence against the military and other state installations that erupted after his brief arrest in May 2023.
• After are details of the main cases among over 100 he states have been introduced against him.

All of the former prime minister's convictions but one have been suspended or overturned, with appeals pending.

For context, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered authorities to move former prime minister Imran Khan to hospital from jail, where he has been lodged for the last three years, his lawyer and party remarked on Tuesday.

Since he lost power in a no-confidence vote in 2022, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder has faced multiple cases on corruption charges, including over state gifts and an accusation of an unlawful marriage.

His family and party have remarked they fear for his deteriorating health in prison and say they have been denied access to him. His lawyer informed a court earlier this year that Imran had lost significant vision in his right eye while in custody. A medical board afterwards stated his vision had improved.

All of his convictions but one have been suspended or overturned, with appeals pending. He denies wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, the ousted premier was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2025 in a land corruption case where prosecutors remarked he and his wife received land as a bribe through the Al-Qadir Trust – a charitable trust set up by Bushra Bibi and Imran Khan in 2018 when still in office.

Authorities have accused Imran and his wife of receiving the land, worth up to Rs7 billion (approximately $25 million), from a property developer charged in Britain with funds laundering.

Meanwhile, the authorities accused the PTI founding chairman of receiving the land in exchange for a favour to return 190 million pounds to the property developer that had been repatriated to Pakistan by Britain in the funds laundering probe.

Imran was convicted in 2024 of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington in 2022. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but it was afterwards overturned. He denies the charge and has remarked the contents appeared in the media from other sources.

In practice, the PTI founder has remarked the cable was proof of a conspiracy by the US to topple his administration in 2022 after he visited Moscow just before Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The US administration denies that.

Additionally known as the Toshakhana or state treasury case, Imran was handed a three-year prison sentence in 2023 by another court for selling gifts worth more than Rs140 million (approximately $504, 686.37) that were in state possession and received during his 2018-2022 premiership. That sentence was afterwards suspended, but in January 2024, an anti-graft court sentenced the ousted PM and his wife to 14 years in jail in the same case. That sentence is at present suspended pending appeal.

According to Imran has, he legally purchased the items. Administration office-holders have alleged Imran's aides sold the gifts in Dubai.

Notably, a list of these gifts shared by a former information minister included perfumes, diamond jewellery, dinner sets and seven watches, six of them Rolexes – the most expensive being a 'Master Graff limited edition' valued at Rs85 million (approximately $306, 416).

Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi were sentenced to seven-year jail terms after a trial court ruled in February 2024 that their 2018 marriage broke Islamic injunctions. In July 2024, a court acquitted them of the charges.

After Bushra Bibi divorced her previous husband, they were charged with not completing the waiting period called 'Iddat'. They signed their marriage contract, or 'Nikkah', in January 2018 in a secret ceremony.

Notably, a number of of the ex-PM's supporters have been sentenced by military courts, but the case against Imran is ongoing. Parliament passes bills related to military, National Command Authority.

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