Pakistan court to hear jailed Imran Khan’s plea against conviction

A Pakistani high court will next week take up a plea from former prime minister Imran Khan for the suspension of a three-year prison sentence on corruption charges, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Khan was jailed this month after his conviction for corruption and then barred from politics for five years, preventing him from contesting a general election due late this year. "Our application with regard to suspension of Khan's conviction has been fixed for Aug. 22," Khan's lawyer, Naeem Panjutha, said in a post on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.