INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A court in Pakistan granted bail to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan in a case relating to the illegal sale of state gifts, his party
said on Wednesday.Khan, 71, has been in prison since August 2023, but it was not immediately clear if the embattled politician would be
released given that he faces a number of other charges too, including inciting violence against the state, Reuters reported.&If the official
order is received today, his family and supporters will approach the authorities for his release,& one of his party&s lawyers, Salman
Safdar added that, as far as he knew, Khan had been granted bail or acquitted in all the cases he faced.However, Information Minister
Attaullah Tarar, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, told Geo TV Khan lacked bail in cases in which he is charged
with planning riots by his supporters in the wake of his arrest in May last year.Khan denies any wrongdoing, and alleges all the cases
registered against him since he was removed from power in 2022 are politically motivated to keep him in jail.The case in which he was
granted bail on Wednesday by the Islamabad High Court is known as the Toshakhana, or state treasury case.It has multiple versions and
charges all revolving around allegations that Khan and his wife illegally procured and then sold gifts worth over 140 million rupees
($501,000) in state possession, which he received during his 2018-22 premiership.Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were both handed a 14-year
sentence on those charges, following a three-year sentence handed to him in late 2023 in another version of the same case.Their sentences
have been suspended in appeals at the high court.The gifts included diamond jewellery and seven watches, six of them Rolexes & the most
expensive being valued at 85 million rupees ($305,000).Khan&s wife was released last month after being in the same prison as Khan for
