ISLAMABAD: Legal experts and political analysts in Pakistan on Sunday weighed in on the conviction of former prime minister Imran Khan, with some raising concerns over the legal procedures that led to his arrest and the possibility of delayed elections.
Khan, 70, was arrested on Saturday after a district court in Islamabad sentenced him to three years in prison for concealing assets after selling state gifts.
His Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said the conviction was “tinted by political posturing” and “conspicuously reached at haste” to keep the former leader out of elections due to take place later this year.
“The decision by the (Islamabad) sessions court to convict Imran Khan has very little to do with the law and everything to do with the current political quagmire the country finds itself in,” Nimra Arshad, a high court lawyer,…
