Imran Khan will face a sentence, asserts PM Shehbaz

Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif's new cabinet was sworn in on Tuesday, more than a week after he was elected as the prime minister. The new cabinet, made up of allied political parties, was sworn in by senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani. Pakistan's president Dr Arif Alvi was reportedly ill. In a series of tweets, however, his office said that Dr Alvi had given the nod to the new cabinet. Thirty-one federal ministers and three miniters of state have been sworn in on Tuesday, according to local media. Meanwhile, former prime minister Imran Khan has been under the scanner over allegations of financial impropriety, including charges by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (N) of the 'theft' of over 310 million Pak rupees in domestic and foreign funds from his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. 

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will hear the case every day starting from Tuesday. This comes after the Islamabad High Court directed the ECP to decide on the case within a month; the court said it was important to establish if PTI had recevied funds from prohibited sources. New PM Shehbaz Sharif's PML(N) has asserted Imran Khan will face a sentence.The accusation comes after irregularities were found in PTI's funding, the case - filed by a founding member - has been pending since November 2014. As per  The Express Tribune report, on January 4 an ECP scrutiny committee report indicated Khan's party had concealed several accounts from the electoral body between 2008 and 2013. The report had further disclosed PTI received $44,000 from 88 foreign donors in this time.