In early 2024, Imran Khan was sentenced to a further ten years in prison for leaking state secrets and violating the Official Secrets Act, and an additional seven years for breaching Islamic marriage laws with his wife (marrying within the prohibited period after her divorce). Both of these sentences were overturned in mid–2024.
Khan was subsequently charged on matters related to rioting that took place in 2023, and clashes between his supporters and police in September 2024. Then in January 2025 he received a 14–year sentence in respect of the Al–Qadir Trust case, in which Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were found guilty of accepting billions in cash (£190 million?) and hundreds of kanals of land (a kanal is one eighth of an acre) from Bahria Town (a property development company) in return for the help that Khan's government gave to the Pakistani businessman Malik Riaz during his investigation by the UK's National Crime Agency.
© Haydn Thompson 2025