ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Saturday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the un-Islamic marriage case, the only case keeping the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party founder behind bars.
On February 3 — days before the general elections on February 8 — an Islamabad court convicted the couple based on a complaint filed by Bushra Bibi’s ex-husband, Khawar Fareed Maneka, who alleged that they contracted marriage during the former first lady’s Iddat period.
In Islam, a woman can’t remarry before completing four months after divorce or the death of her husband.
After nearly a year in jail, former Pak PM Imran Khan acquitted in illegal marriage case added by Press Trust of India on
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