A Trump ally has called on Pakistan to release the former prime minister from prison, inspiring fervent hope among his supporters.

Normally, painful reforms demand a national consensus, which deeply polarized Pakistan is unlikely to achieve. Failing that, it would help if the leadership were trusted. Sharif and his cabinet of rivals are equally unlikely to receive such affirmation. The best they can expect from the Pakistani street is tolerance.

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ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Friday 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 corruption, officials and his lawyer said.

The couple are accused of accepting a gift of land from a real estate tycoon in exchange for laundered money when Khan was in power.

A Pakistan court has sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail respectively after finding them guilty of corruption, his lawyers and officials said. The two were accused of accepting a gift of land from a real estate tycoon in exchange for laundered money when Mr Khan was in power.

Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi convicted for corruption linked to Al-Qadir Trust, a welfare foundation they established

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.