September 19, 2024

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Imran Khan’s marriage to Bushra Bibi unlawful? Islamabad courtroom summons them each

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The district and periods courtroom in Islamabad has termed the case in opposition to the “illegal” marriage of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi as admissible in courtroom and summoned each of them on July 20, Geo TV reported.

Civil Judge Qudratullah introduced the decision and issued notices to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and his spouse. Petitioner Muhammad Hanif had claimed that Bushra Bibi was divorced by her former husband in November 2017 and married Khan in January 2018, regardless of her ‘iddat’ interval not having ended and acknowledged that it “is against Sharia and Muslim norms.”

As per the Geo TV report, Iddat is a 130-day ready interval after the dissolution of a lady’s marriage by means of divorce, dying, or another type of separation from her husband, throughout which the girl stays single.

Cleric Mufti Muhammad Saeed who performed the wedding between Imran and Bushra submitted in his statements to courtroom that Khan had married Bushra Bibi throughout the latter’s iddat, regardless of understanding all the things.

He quoted Khan as saying that Bushra Bibi had been divorced on November 2017 and that there was a “prediction” that the PTI chairman would turn into the prime minister of Pakistan if he married Bushra Bibi.

Last week, Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Islamabad Muhammad Azam Khan remanded the case to a civil decide and dismissed one other civil courtroom’s verdict declaring a petition difficult the legality of the wedding objectionable, in accordance with Geo TV.

Saeed in his assertion to a decrease courtroom, stated that he had solemnized Khan’s nikah with Bushra Bibi over the reassurance of a lady claiming to be the previous first woman’s sister.

“Then the former premier contacted me again on February 2018 and requested me to solemnize his Nikah with Bushra Bibi again as the first time it was against the Shariah,” Saeed added in his assertion earlier than the courtroom.

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