Court dismisses former Pakistan PM Khan's illegal marriage sentence plea
The Peninsula
Islamabad: An Islamabad court rejected on Thursday a plea to suspend the jail terms of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, whose...
Islamabad: An Islamabad court rejected on Thursday a plea to suspend the jail terms of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, whose marriage was ruled illegal under Islamic law.
Khan has been entangled in more than 200 legal cases since he was ousted in April 2022 in what he said was a campaign to keep him from power.
The 71-year-old and his wife Bushra Bibi were both sentenced to seven years in jail in February on charges that, under Islamic law, their marriage came too soon after Bibi's divorce.
According to AFP journalists in the Islamabad district court, a judge deferred the plea to suspend their sentences and said that a decision would be announced on July 12.
Khan, who served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has been detained since August last year and barred from standing for office.
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