Pakistan's Imran Khan handed 14-year jail term in land graft case

Former prime minister expected to challenge verdict in higher courts

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, is flanked by his wife, Bushra Bibi, as he speaks to the media in Lahore in mid-2023. © AP

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- 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.

The verdict in the case was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been jailed since August 2023.

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