Former prime minister Imran Khan and his family Bushra Bibi were cleared of the un-Islamic wedding event by a Muslim judge on Saturday. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( PTI ) founder has been in jail since August last year, but only this case has changed that.
A court in Islamabad found the pair guilty on February 3 on the ground that Khawar Fareed Maneka, Bushra Bibi’s ex-husband, had filed a complaint about. Maneka claimed that they were married during Bushra Bibi’s Iddat, a four-month Islamic waiting time for women after their divorces or husband’s deaths.
Additional District and Sessions Judge ( ADDSJ) Afzal Majoka, who heard the case in a district and session court in Islamabad, heard the case. After reserving the ruling earlier in the day, Judge Majoka acquiesced Khan, 71, and Bushra, 49, to the ruling.
” If they are not wanted in any other case, then PTI founder Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi should be released ]from jail ] immediately”, the judge said after accepting their appeals. Following the expulsion of his Toshakhana corruption case phrase and acquittal in the cipher case, it was not immediately known if Khan had been released. This was the only other case in which he was now imprisoned.
Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has been behind plates since August last year after being sentenced in the Toshakhana fraud case and eventually convicted in different scenarios ahead of the February 8 votes.
In November of this year, Maneka accused the handful of getting married without observing the requisite Iddat. He wished the union be declared null and void.
In the same year that Khan won the general election and became prime minister, Khan and Bibi wed. Bibi, who was apparently Khan’s religious link, divorced her husband of 28 times, with whom she had five children, and developed a loving relationship with Khan. She is Khan’s second wife, during his sport job, Khan had a standing as a comedian.
PTI key Gohar Khan welcomed the conviction, calling it a win for the independent court. He pleaded for Imran Khan’s immediate release, saying that since this was the last time he was found guilty, and that he would even receive fairness in all other cases.
Khan’s PTI party’s significant legal success is now in front of this decision. Following the controversy-heavy general election on February 8 on Friday, the Supreme Court declared the PTI ready for reserved seats in Parliament and municipal meetings. The PTI was granted the right to more than 20 seats in Parliament reserved for women and immigrants, according to the court’s ruling.
