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Court rejects former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's illegal marriage conviction plea

Court rejects former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's illegal marriage conviction plea

 


ISLAMABAD – An Islamabad court on June 27 rejected a request to suspend the prison sentences of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, whose marriage was deemed illegal under Islamic law.

Khan has been embroiled in more than 200 legal cases since his ouster in April 2022 in what he has called a campaign to remove him from power.

The 71-year-old and his wife Bushra Bibi were both sentenced to seven years in prison in February on charges that, under Islamic law, their marriage took place too soon after Bibi's divorce.

According to AFP journalists at the Islamabad district court, a judge postponed the request to suspend their sentences and said a decision would be announced on July 12.

Khan, who served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has been detained since August 2023 and banned from running in elections.

However, the 14-year jail sentence for corruption handed down to the former international cricket star and his wife was suspended by a Pakistani high court in April.

Khan then had his 10-year prison sentence for treason overturned in June, but he remains incarcerated in Adiala prison, south of the capital Islamabad, due to his conviction for illegal marriage.

He had been allowed to be released before these three convictions in the days before Pakistan's February 8 general elections.

Mr Rana Sanaullah, an adviser to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, said this week that the government would try to keep him in custody for as long as possible.

According to analysts, the powerful Pakistani army, which has been in power for decades, is probably behind this series of cases.

Khan was ousted by a parliamentary vote of no confidence after falling out with top generals who had once supported him.

He then led an unprecedented campaign of defiance against them and accused senior officials of conspiring in an assassination attempt in which he was shot dead at a political rally in November 2022.

Khan's brief arrest in May 2023 sparked nationwide unrest, which in turn prompted a widespread crackdown on his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and its top leaders.

PTI candidates were forced to run as independents in the February elections, even though PTI loyalists won more seats than any other party.

However, they were blocked from coming to power by a broad coalition of parties seen as loyal to the military. AFP

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