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By Priyanka Deshpande
Published Jan 30, 2024
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on January 30 was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the cipher case.
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Khan was also arrested on May 9, 2023 in another corruption case but was released after a couple of days after the intervention by the Supreme Court, the PTI reported.
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He was sentenced to three years in jail in the Toshakhana case on August 5, 2023. But Khan is not the first Pakistani premier to end up in jail.
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A Bengali politician from then East Pakistan & the fifth prime minister, Suhrawardy was arrested in January 1962 and put in jail on bogus charges of “anti-state activities”.
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Bhutto, the ninth prime minister, was arrested on the charges of conspiracy to murder a political opponent in 1974. He was sentenced to death and hanged on April 4, 1979.
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The country's only woman premier, Benazir was arrested in August 1986 for denouncing the military dictator Ziaul Haq at a rally in Karachi. In April 1999, she was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for corruption & disqualified & fined more than 5 million pounds.
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Sharif was arrested in 1999 after General Pervez Musharraf took over & later was exiled for 10 years. In July 2018, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz in a corruption case. In December of the same year, he was handed over 7 years in prison in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.
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Abbasi was arrested in July 2019 in connection with a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) corruption case but later on, bailed out.
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