Cricket icon Imran Khan, mystic wife jailed over wedding

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Cricket fable Imran Khan and his mystic woman person been deed again with a further jailhouse condemnation handed down.

A Pakistan tribunal connected Saturday ruled the erstwhile premier minister’s marriage to his 3rd woman Bushra Bibi was amerciable nether Islamic instrumentality and sentenced the brace to 7 years each successful jail, his enactment said.

It is the 3rd verdict successful a week to onslaught the erstwhile planetary cricket star’s reputation, aft helium was fixed concurrent situation sentences of 10 years for leaking authorities secrets and 14 years for graft alongside his woman Bibi.

Khan, who was booted from bureau by a ballot of nary assurance successful April 2022, insists astir 200 offences helium has since been charged with person been fabricated by the military-led constitution to halt him from contesting elections connected February 8.

The latest condemnation centres connected an Islamic instrumentality known arsenic “iddat”, which dictates that a widowed oregon divorced pistillate indispensable hold 3 months earlier remarrying, to permission nary uncertainty astir who the begetter is successful the lawsuit of a pregnancy.

“A tribunal has declared the matrimony of erstwhile premier curate Imran Khan & Busra Bibi amerciable with 7 years imprisonment each,” his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) enactment said successful a statement.

“This shameful lawsuit is illogical. All of this is happening for governmental goals,” said Khan’s lawyer Gohar Ali Khan, adding that the condemnation and jailhouse presumption would beryllium challenged successful court.

Khan has been imprisoned successful Rawalpindi for months, portion Bibi surrendered this week and is being held astatine her home, declared a “sub-jail”, connected the outskirts of the superior Islamabad.

“The charges of corruption and present these ones are an effort to rise motivation questions connected his character,” lawyer Sabahat Rizvi, who was not progressive successful the case, told AFP Saturday.

“They are targeting him due to the fact that they could not diminish his aura.”

Khan roseate to powerfulness successful 2018 with the backing of the military, but has been sidelined aft losing their favour and waging a run of defiance against them.

The PTI has been severely hamstrung up of the vote, with scores of leaders jailed, supporters barred from holding rallies, and the enactment stripped of its talisman cricket bat symbol.

Few journalists person been fixed entree to the court, but The Nation said Saturday the mates insisted they had waited the due clip earlier marrying.

The ailment against the matrimony was raised successful November past twelvemonth by Khawar Maneka, Bibi’s ex-husband.

“The divorcement deed presented by Khawar Maneka is simply a fabricated document,” The Nation paper reported Bibi arsenic saying successful a connection Friday to a peculiar tribunal league astatine Adiala jail, wherever Khan is being held.

“Khawar Maneka gave maine a triple divorcement successful April 2017,” it quoted Bibi’s connection arsenic saying.

“Imran Khan and I solemnised our matrimony connected January 1, 2018.”

The paper said the mates questioned wherefore Maneka had waited truthful agelong to marque his complaint, arguing helium lone raised the contented past twelvemonth aft being detained successful a graft case.

Oxford-educated Khan earned a estimation arsenic a playboy during his cricket-playing bachelor days, often photographed alongside nine beauties and models.

His archetypal matrimony to Jemima Goldsmith — the girl of a British multimillionaire — ended successful divorce.

He past joined Reham Nayyar, a tv writer who published a kiss-and-tell memoir aft they divorced wrong a year.

Bibi, his 3rd wife, seldom appears successful nationalist and wears a face-covering hijab erstwhile she does.

Bibi is credited with playing a cardinal relation Khan’s meteoric emergence and fall.

By astir reports, it was religion that archetypal brought Khan and Bibi together.

With a increasing involvement successful the Sufism, a benignant of Islamic mysticism, Khan began attending the Shrine of Baba Farid wherever Bibi was a religion healer.

Over clip they established a peer-muridi, she go his “spiritual mentor”.

And she made immoderate startling predictions for his governmental future.

Whether it was her mystic powers — oregon her family’s governmental connections — they tied the knot successful a quiescent ceremonial connected 18 February 2018.

- with AFP

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