A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has sentenced the country’s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corrupti

My wife is a housewife, who has nothing to do with this phony case,” he asserted in the remarks his party shared with the media. “A dictator is doing all this,” Khan said, without elaborating. He has previously accused the chief of Pakistan’s powerful military,