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The former Pakistan captain Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to seven years each by a local court in a marriage case, declaring it “un-Islamic,” on Saturday, February 3. It was last week when Khan and Bibi were handed 14-year sentences each in a corruption case, called Toshakhana, wherein they were illegally selling state gifts.
Notably, this is the third sentence announced for the former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the last one week after he got sentenced to 10 years alongside the former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for leaking state secrets in a Cipher case, on Tuesday, January 30. The various convictions for the 71-year-old have added to the longstanding problems of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party ahead of the General Elections in the country on Thursday, February 8.
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As per the report from CNN, both Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi were found guilty of “a marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.” The case was filed by Bushra Bibi’s former husband Khawar Farid Maneka six years after his divorce, in which he had accused them of marrying each other without completing the Iddat, a 40-day compulsory waiting period to remarry in Islam religion after someone goes through a divorce, which is committing an adultery.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party released a statement about the district court judgement involving Imran Khan, wherein they called it “a mockery of the law.”
The spokesperson of the PTI, Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari remarked to the journalists about how he witnessed the marriage ceremony of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi in 2018, before calling the judgement “a victory for Imran Khan. Shows everything else is also false on him hence such ridiculous cases and sentences need to be slapped on him.”
