Just like Imran Khan, former Pakistan prime ministers Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif also ended up in jail.
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Imran Khan, the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore after an Islamabad-based sessions court sentenced him to three years in prison.
The first on the list is Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali politician from then East Pakistan who served as the fifth prime minister. He was arrested in January 1962 and put in jail on bogus charges of anti-state activities . His actual crime was his refusal to support military ruler General Ayub Khan.