Wife of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Khan gets bail in corruption case

ISLAMABAD

A Pakistani court on Wednesday granted bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi in a case involving the purchase and illegal sale of state gifts.

Judge Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of the Islamabad High Court heard her plea, granted the former first lady’s bail application after her arrest and ordered her release from jail.

“The Islamabad High Court accepted Bushra Imran’s bail plea and ordered her release as she is already on bail in other cases,” Bibi’s lawyer Salman Safdar told reporters outside the courtroom.

She was confronted with the ‘Toshakhana second case’, which involved the illegal purchase and sale of state gifts.

The former first lady was arrested in late January after an Islamabad court sentenced Imran Khan and his wife to 14 years in prison in a case involving the purchase and illegal sale of state gifts the couple received from abroad during Khan’s nearly four years in prison. year-long term of office. term as prime minister.

In addition, the two were sentenced to seven years in prison for violating the Islamic code during their marriage in 2018.

In April, the IHC suspended their sentences in the foreign donation case, but they remain in custody in several other cases.

In July, a local court also suspended the sentences and acquitted Khan and his wife of violating Islamic marriage law.

Bibi’s lawyer said the government is expected to release her today because she has no other cases pending and has been released on bail or acquitted in all of them.

However, Khan, 72, is currently jailed in Rawalpindi seeking bail in multiple cases ranging from corruption to terrorism, all of which he denies. Courts have already quashed two of his convictions and suspended a third.

The former cricket star was removed from power in April 2022 through a vote of no confidence.

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