Lahore:  , Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his family Bushra Bibi appealed against their views for graft on Monday, his attorney said.
Khan, 72, has been held in custody since August 2023 charged in approximately 200 circumstances that he says are politically motivated.
In the most recent case ever brought against them, the former cricket star received a 14-year prison sentence and his wife received a seven-year sentence this quarter.
We have filed appeals now, and it will go through administrative procedures in the coming days before it will be scheduled for a hearing, according to Khan’s attorney Khalid Yousaf Chaudhry, who spoke with AFP outside the Islamabad High Court.
Khan has been found guilty four days since his imprisonment, with the other two convictions having been commuted and the other two having had their sentences suspended.
The pair’s involvement in the Al-Qadir Trust, a happiness basis they cofounded up, was found guilty of” problem and corrupt practices,” according to a particular graft court.
His Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( PTI ) party claimed earlier that the case was being used to pressure him into cutting a deal with the government to step down from politics, and the court hearing for the case was moved three times.
Khan alleged before the judgment that he had been “indirectly approached” about the possibility of home arrest at his sprawling residence on Islamabad’s fringes.
In the army town of Rawalpindi, nearer to Islamabad, is Bibi, a faith healer who wed Khan shortly before he was elected president in 2018, a husband of hers.