A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has sentenced the country’s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corrupti

My wife is a housewife, who has nothing to do with this phony case,” he asserted in the remarks his party shared with the media. “A dictator is doing all this,” Khan said, without elaborating. He has previously accused the chief of Pakistan’s powerful military,

Pakistan's anti-corruption court handed former Prime Minister Imran Khan a 14-year jail sentence in a land bribery case against him, his attorney said on Friday.

The talks come a day ahead of a crucial court ruling in a land corruption case against the 72-year-old former cricket star-turned-politician. The verdict in the graft case due on Friday is the largest that Khan faces in terms of financial impropriety,

The couple are accused of accepting a gift of land from a real estate tycoon in exchange for laundered money when Khan was Pakistan's prime minister.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's 14-year jail sentence in a land corruption case is the latest in a series of ups and downs for the charismatic cricket star who has been in prison for the last one-and-a-half years.