Pak court orders transfer of Imran’s wife to same jail

Islamabad: The wife of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan was moved from house arrest to the same jail as her husband, lawyers said, where the pair will serve matching prison terms for illegal marriage. Bushra Bibi, 49, and Khan, 71, have both been convicted of corruption and breaking Islamic marriage laws in the lead up to Feb’s general election.
“She has already been shifted to a female ward of the jail on her own request,” Intazar Hussain Panjutha, a lawyer for Khan’s PTI party, said.
She had been held at the home she shared with Khan - declared a sub-jail - on the outskirts of the capital for the past three months. Khan is also serving a concurrent 10-year term for leaking state secrets. She had made repeated requests to be “treated as a commoner” and taken to the prison, a spokesman for the party said.