Pakistan’s Imran Khan arrested after three-year prison sentence

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been arrested after a court in Islamabad found him guilty of “corrupt practices” involving the sale of state gifts and sentenced him to three years in jail.

Police officers from the Islamabad force swooped in on the former international cricket star’s home in Lahore on Saturday and arrested him, taking him to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail by helicopter.

“His dishonesty has been established beyond doubt,” judge Humayun Dilawar wrote in a court ruling.

“He has been found guilty of corrupt practices by hiding the benefits he accrued from [the] national exchequer wilfully and intentionally,” the judge said.