Imran faces multiple cases on corruption charges, including over state gifts and accusation of an unlawful marriage
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan speaks with Reuters during an interview, in Lahore, Pakistan March 17, 2023. — REUTERS
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered authorities to move former prime minister Imran Khan to Shifa International Hospital from Adiala jail, where he has been lodged for the last three years, his lawyer and party said.
Since he lost power in a no-confidence vote in 2022, Imran has faced multiple cases on corruption charges, including over state gifts and an accusation of an unlawful marriage.
His family and party had said they fear for his deteriorating health in prison and say they have been denied access to him. His lawyer told a court earlier this year that Imran had lost significant vision in his right eye while in custody. A medical board later said his vision had improved.
All of his convictions but one have been suspended or overturned, with appeals pending. He denies wrongdoing.
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The following are details of the main cases among over 100 he says have been launched against him.
Land bribery case
Imran was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2025 in a land corruption case where prosecutors said he and his wife received land as a bribe through the Al-Qadir Trust — a charitable trust set up by Bushra Bibi and Imran in 2018 when still in office.
The authorities had accused Imran and his wife of receiving the land, worth up to Rs7 billion from a property developer charged in Britain with money laundering.
Authorities accused Imran of getting the land in exchange for a favour to return 190 million pounds to the property developer that had been repatriated to Pakistan by Britain in the money laundering probe.
State secrets case
Imran was convicted in 2024 of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington in 2022. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but it was later overturned. He denied the charge and said the contents appeared in the media from other sources.
Imran alleged that the cable was proof of a conspiracy by the military and the US government to topple his government in 2022 after he visited Moscow just before Russia invaded Ukraine. Washington and the military deny that.
Gifts case
Also known as the Toshakhana or state treasury case, Imran was handed a three-year prison sentence in 2023 by another court for selling gifts worth more than Rs140m that were in state possession and received during his 2018-2022 premiership. That sentence was later suspended, but in January 2024, an anti-graft court sentenced Imran and his wife to 14 years in jail in the same case.
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That sentence is currently suspended pending appeal.
Imran said that he had legally purchased the items. Government officials alleged that Imran’s aides sold the gifts in Dubai.
A list of these gifts shared by a former information minister included perfumes, diamond jewellery, dinner sets and seven watches, six of them Rolexes — the most expensive being a “Master Graff limited edition” valued at Rs85m.
Unlawful marriage case
Imran and his wife were sentenced to seven-year jail terms after a trial court ruled in February 2024 that their 2018 marriage broke Islamic injunctions.
In July 2024, a court acquitted them of the charges.
They were charged with not completing the waiting period mandated by Islam after Bushra Bibi divorced her previous husband. They signed their marriage contract in January 2018 in a secret ceremony.
Abetting violence
Imran also faces a trial under anti-terrorism charges in connection with violence against the military and other state installations that erupted following his brief arrest in May 2023.
Many of Imran’s supporters had been sentenced by military courts, but the case against Imran was ongoing.
Imran and his wife remain incarcerated in Adiala jail.
