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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been barred from politics for five years.
Khan, who was sentenced in a corruption case over the weekend, was disqualified in line with his conviction, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said in an order on Tuesday.
“Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi is disqualified for a period of five years,” it said. Khan’s constituency would now stand vacant, it said.
Under Pakistani law, a convicted person cannot run for any public office for a period defined by the ECP.
Khan, who has denied any wrongdoing, was sentenced to three years imprisonment on Saturday for misdeclaration of assets he received from foreign countries during the time he was prime minister from 2018 to 2022. He was arrested at his Lahore house and taken to a prison near Islamabad.
Source: www.aljazeera.com
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