Pakistan

First flights depart from Karachi, Lahore, Multan airports

Ex-SAPM calls for accountability, urgent reforms and oversight

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Four foreign ministers push for greater coordination

Reduces price from Rs494.71 per litre to Rs471.01 per litre

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ISLAMABAD: Bushra Bibi, the spouse of former prime minister Imran Khan, approached the Islamabad High Court on Saturday seeking suspension of her sentence in the £190 million corruption case on medical grounds. Bushra is serving a seven-year sentence in the £190 million corruption case, which pertains to giving undue favours to property tycoon Malik Riaz in retrieving his laundered money from the United Kingdom. Her appeal against the conviction remains pending before the high court. In December 2025, she was also sen­tenced to 17 years’ imprisonment in the Toshakhana 2 case, which concerns the purchase of an expensive jewelry set gifted to Imran by the Saudi crown prince during his May 2021 visit. In the application filed on Saturday through her counsels Salman Safdar and Khalid Yousaf Chaudhry, Bushra Bibi urged the court to urgently fix and decide on her plea seeking the suspension of the sentence. The petition stated that Bushra Bibi, currently incarcerated at Adiala jail, underwent an eye surgery under u...

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