Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi’s marriage held against Islamic law, says cleric who performed Nikah
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan`s marriage with Bushra Bibi become held towards the standards of Shariah law, the cleric, who finished the Nikah, stated on Wednesday. The cleric, Mufti Mohammad Saeed, made the testimony earlier than a courtroom docket for the duration of the listening to of a petition in search of felony movement towards Khan for marrying his gift spouse even as she become reportedly on Iddat, Pakistan’s day by day Dawn mentioned on Thursday.
Iddat is a 130-day length of ready or seclusion that a Muslim female ought to study after the demise or divorce or every other shape of separation from her husband.
Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, married Bushra in February 2018. Mufti Saeed stated he had near members of the family with Khan and become part of the PTI’s center committee. The cleric stated Khan requested him, on January 1, 2018, to solemnise his Nikah with Bushra Bibi in Lahore. Khan took Mufti Saeed to a residence in Defence Society and there the cleric met the spouse and children of each Bushra Bibi and the PTI chief. “I obtained, from each sides, sundry information earlier than appearing the Nikah. I additionally requested her approximately her first marriage and divorce,” Mufti Saeed stated as in keeping with Dawn.
The cleric stated a female accompanying Bushra Bibi brought herself as her sister and confident him that each one necessities for the wedding beneathneath Shariah have been complete. He then solemnised the Nikah in January. However, the record stated, Mufti Saeed recalled that Khan contacted him once more in February 2018, with a request to carry out the Nikah with Bushra Bibi afresh because the first one become towards the standards of Shariah.
“I become instructed that the Nikah become solemnised for the duration of Bushra Bibi’s Iddat as she were divorced in November 2017. But there has been a ‘prediction’ that the PTI chairman turns into top minister if he marries Bushra on Jan 1, 2018,” the cleric reportedly stated in his testimony.
According to Dawn, the cleric alleged that Khan and Bushra intentionally entered into an “unlawful and un-Islamic” union for the sake of “a trifling prediction” because the former become satisfied that he could ascent to the Prime Minister`s workplace if he were given married on New Year’s Day in 2018.
