KARACHI: Pakistan‘s ex-PM Imran Khan remained disqualified from contesting elections after a court rejected his plea to suspend an earlier conviction on Thursday, his lawyer said. The decision came a day before the deadline of submitting nomination papers for the elections for provincial and national assemblies scheduled for February 8. Khan was imprisoned on August 5 after being sentenced to three years in jail on charges of unlawfully selling state gifts during his tenure as PM from 2018 to 2022.
He denies any wrongdoing. He was seeking to overturn that conviction which has barred him from contesting elections for five years. ” Khan’s request to suspend the decision in Tosha Khana criminal case was rejected so that the disqualification would remain,” Khan’s lawyer Naeem Haider Panjutha, said. reuters
He denies any wrongdoing. He was seeking to overturn that conviction which has barred him from contesting elections for five years. ” Khan’s request to suspend the decision in Tosha Khana criminal case was rejected so that the disqualification would remain,” Khan’s lawyer Naeem Haider Panjutha, said. reuters