Imran Khan Gets Sentence Suspended in Win Before Elections

Islamabad High Court’s panel of justices accepted Khan’s appeal against his three-year jail term, Naeem Haider Panjutha, spokesman on Khan’s legal affairs said in a post on X. A lower court judge earlier this month found the former cricket star guilty of hiding the income made from selling gifts including Rolex watches and jewelry. The court will continue hearing the case after the order.

Khan stands released after this order and a final decision will be made once the case is decided, the politician’s lawyer Salman Safdar said by phone. His legal team has also filed a petition that he is not arrested in any other case. He is still disqualified from taking part in elections or holding public office until the higher courts overturn the trial court’s verdict.

Khan, who was ousted from power in a no-confidence vote last year, can still mobilize his party for the general elections. However, the election commission has delayed the voting until at least February as per politicians from November since officials need time to redraw the constituencies on the back of a surge in population.

The 70-year-old leader was the most popular politician in Pakistan, according to a Gallup survey published in March. The army and the government have since then moved to curtail Khan’s influence after his supporters were accused of damaging state property in May following his brief arrest. Many of Khan’s associates were arrested in a crackdown soon after and several of them have left his party to join other political groups. The politician, who used to draw tens of thousands of people to his rallies, was confining himself to a private home in Lahore and only leaving it to seek bail for the scores of court cases leveled against him.

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