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.

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.

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.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a corruption case, in the latest of a series of charges laid against him. The case has been described by Pakistani authorities as the largest the country has seen - though the country has seen huge financial scandals in the past,

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

A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a land corruption case, his legal team said. The verdict in the case,