Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan allegedly violated Islamic marriage regulation

• Imran Khan and his spouse have been indicted by a Pakistani court docket on the cost that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic regulation.
• Khan, the previous Prime Minister, denied the cost, and his lawyer claimed that the case was politically motivated.
• Khan’s spouse, Bushra Bibi, a religious healer, was beforehand married to Khawar Maneka, who claimed they divorced in Nov. 2017.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his spouse on a cost that their 2018 marriage violated the Islamic regulation requirement {that a} girl wait three months earlier than remarriage, his lawyer stated.

Khan denied the cost, and his lawyer, Intisar Panjutha, known as the case considered one of scores in opposition to the previous prime minister that he sees as a politically motivated try and hold Khan out of Pakistan’s general elections to be held subsequent month.

Khan’s spouse Bushra Bibi, who’s a religious healer, was beforehand married to a person named Khawar Maneka who has claimed that they divorced in November 2017, lower than three months forward of Khan’s Jan. 1, 2018 marriage, which was introduced in February of that 12 months. However Bibi has stated the divorce was in August of 2017.

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Khan, who beforehand was married to socialite Jemima Goldsmith and journalist Reham Khan, and his present spouse have each denied that they violated the three-month ready interval.

Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a political celebration of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, maintain a rally in opposition to the choice of election fee for the electoral image of a cricket bat on Jan. 14, 2024. A court docket has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his spouse on a cost that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic regulation. (AP Photograph/Fareed Khan)

Khan pleaded not responsible Tuesday when fees have been learn out to him by a decide at Adiala jail within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi. Bibi was not current on the time of indictment, although she has beforehand denied the cost.

“Everyone knows he’s being charged and incarcerated in bogus cases to keep him out of electoral race, however people of Pakistan don’t seem to be giving up on him,” Khan’s lawyer, Panjutha, said.

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Khan, who was ousted from power in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April 2022, is currently serving a prison term in a graft case. Khan has also been embroiled in more than 150 cases, which include inciting people to violence after his arrest in May 2023.

During nationwide riots in May, Khan’s supporters from his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party attacked the army’s headquarters within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi, stormed an air base in Mianwali within the jap Punjab province and torched a constructing housing state-run Radio Pakistan within the northwest.

The violence subsided solely when Khan was launched on the time by the Supreme Court docket.

On Tuesday, police arrested Khan ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on fees of inciting individuals to violence in Could within the metropolis of Rawalpindi. Ahmed served as inside minister in Khan’s authorities till his ouster.