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

A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, local broadcaster ARY News reported. The verdict in the case, the largest in terms of financial wrongdoing faced by Khan,

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 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.

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,