Islamabad court docket summons Imran Khan in ‘un-Islamic nikah’ case

Former prime minister Imran Khan (centre) together with his spouse Bushra Bibi arrive to look at a excessive court docket in Lahore on may 15, 2023. — AFP

ISLAMABAD: A district and classes court docket in Islamabad issued a summon of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for September 25 in an “unIslamic nikah” case together with his third spouse Bushra Bibi.
Civil choose Qudratullah has requested the court docket employees to subject the summon to current the PTI chief in court docket to the Attock jail superintendent.
The previous prime minister was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on August 5 after being convicted within the Toshakhana case with accusations of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to purchase and promote presents in state possession that have been acquired throughout visits overseas and value greater than Rs140 million ($635,000).
Since his arrest, he was shifted to the Attock jail.
Whereas the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) had overturned a decrease court docket’s resolution to jail him, he stays behind bars attributable to his arrest within the cipher case.
The Federal Investigation Company (FIA) formally arrested the ousted premier — who was faraway from energy by way of a parliamentary vote in April final 12 months — and Shah Mahmood Qureshi within the cipher case final month after reserving them below the Official Secrets and techniques Act.
Qureshi was taken into custody from his residence in Islamabad in the identical case on August 19 whereas Khan was arrested within the cipher case whereas he was serving the sentence in Attock jail.
Imran-Bushra marriage case
In Might of this 12 months, a district and classes court docket in Islamabad rejected the plea difficult the nikah (marriage) of Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi.
The applying, in response to the court docket, was “inadmissible” and fell outdoors its jurisdiction however, in July one other Islamabad court docket dismissed the civil court docket’s verdict.
Extra District and Periods Decide (ADSJ) Islamabad Muhammad Azam Khan, again then, had remanded the case to a civil choose.
The petitioner, Muhammad Hanif, had claimed that Bushra Bibi was divorced by her former husband in November 2017 and married Khan on January 1, 2018, even if her Iddat interval had not ended, “which is in opposition to the Sharia and Muslim norms.”
The complainant submitted within the court docket the statements of Mufti Muhammad Saeed — who carried out the wedding between Imran and Bushra, and Awn Chaudhry — Imran’s shut good friend — one of many witnesses on the wedding ceremony.
Saeed, who solemnised the couple’s Nikah, had stated that the PTI chief married Bushra Bibi through the latter’s iddat (the time a lady goes into isolation after her husband dies or divorces her), regardless of figuring out every part.
In his assertion to a decrease court docket, Saeed stated he had solemnised Khan’s Nikah with Bushra Bibi on January 1, 2018, over the reassurance of a lady claiming to be the previous first woman’s sister.
“Then the previous premier contacted me once more in February 2018 and requested me to solemnise his Nikah with Bushra Bibi once more as the primary time it was in opposition to the Shariah,” Saeed said earlier than the court docket.
He stated that the primary time when the Nikah was solemnised, Bushra Bibi’s Iddat hadn’t ended.
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.
Mufti Saeed added that the primary Nikah was unlawful, which had been solemnised primarily based on the “prediction”.
Marriage
In February 2018, the PTI had introduced that Khan married Bushra Riaz Watoo, higher identified now as Bushra Bibi, who’s a revered religion healer. The ceremony was held in Lahore.
Though Khan’s sisters weren’t in attendance, the bride’s mom and associates attended the intimate ceremony.
Earlier than marrying the religious information, Khan was married twice.
He first married Jemima Goldsmith, daughter of a British billionaire, in 1995, but it surely led to 2004. He has two youngsters — Suleman and Qasim — from his first spouse. Each of them stay with their mom.
His second marriage was to Reham Khan in January 2015, which dissolved in a brief span of 10 months.