Pakistan High Court to Hear Appeal by Jailed Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani excessive courtroom will take up jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s attraction on Wednesday towards his conviction on corruption costs, his lawyer stated.

Khan was barred from holding any public workplace for 5 years after he started a 3 yr sentence on Saturday on costs of unlawfully promoting state items acquired by him and his household throughout his 2018-2022 tenure.

The courtroom will begin proceedings on the attraction in a while Wednesday, his lawyer Naeem Panjutha stated, including, “Imran Khan might be freed if his case is heard on benefit.”

Khan, who has denied any wrongdoing, was arrested at his Lahore home and brought to a jail close to Islamabad.

Khan’s authorized group has filed the attraction searching for to put aside the responsible verdict.

Khan, 70, has been on the coronary heart of political turmoil since he was ousted as prime minister in a vote of no-confidence final yr, elevating concern about Pakistan’s stability because it grapples with an financial disaster.

(Reporting by Asif Shahzad, Modifying by William Maclean)

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