Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan and wife convicted of marriage law violation

Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were convicted of a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law (KM Chaudary/AP)

A court in Pakistan has convicted and sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law, officials and a defence lawyer said.

The verdict follows another case in which Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for corruption.