A Pakistan court on Saturday sentenced jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years imprisonment in the ‘un-Islamic nikah’ case.
Bibi’s first husband, Khawar Maneka, had filed the case, alleging that she violated the Islamic practice of observing the mandatory pause or Iddat between two marriages.
Maneka also accused his ex-wife and Khan, the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party, of being in an adulterous relationship before marriage, a crime punishable by death by stoning.
The trial court concluded the hearing on Friday night after a marathon 14-hour-long hearing at the Adiala jail.
Bibi was kept at the couple’s Banigala residence. She was brought to Adiala for the final hearing with Khan and their lawyers in attendance.
The verdict was issued after cross-examination of the statements given by the four witnesses in the case was completed. The statements of Khan and Bushra were recorded under section 342.
Four witnesses were cross examined for their statements before the verdict was given. Statements of Khan and Bushra were also recorded under Section 342.
The complainant’s counsel — Raja Rizwan Abbasi, Khan’s lawyer Salman Akram Raja and Bushra Bibi’s lawyer Usman Gul — also gave their final arguments a day earlier.
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