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Nikah of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi was in direction of Sharia, says Mufti Saeed who solemnized it

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s marriage to Bushra Bibi did not adhere to Islamic Sharia laws, in step with Mufti Saeed, the cleric who carried out the nikah (bridal ceremony). The cleric acknowledged at a listening to in Islamabad court docket docket on a petition filed by Muhammad Hanif that the nikah was not in conformity with Islamic Sharia laws.

The cleric revealed that the wedding occurred all through Bushra Bibi’s iddat interval, which is a prepared interval practised by Muslim women following the demise of their associate or divorce. Muslim women shouldn’t allowed to marry one different man all by way of this period because it’s thought-about a grieving part for ladies.

The iddat interval varies based totally on circumstances, nevertheless usually, it is three lunar months or spherical 89 days. Bushra Bibi was in November 2017, and her marriage with Imran Khan occurred on 1 January 2028, which means three lunar months weren’t completed after the divorce.

According to evaluations, the cleric acknowledged that he was taken to the Defence Housing Authority Lahore in 2018 to hold out the marriage and that he solely carried out the ceremony when a lady who acknowledged herself as Bushra Bibi’s sister gave him the go-ahead. Mufti Saeed said that the woman suggested him that every one requirements for the marriage beneath the Shariah have been full. The event occurred on January 1, 2018.

Khan’s pal Zulfi Bukhari and former get collectively chief Awn Chaudhry have been witnesses to the marriage solemnised by Mufti Saeed in Lahore.

While speaking sooner than the court docket docket, Mufti Saeed educated that Imran Khan approached him in February 2018 and requested him to re-conduct their bridal ceremony on account of Khan believed that Sharia laws had been violated the first time. By this time, the iddat interval was over.

Mufti Saeed moreover suggested the court docket docket that every Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi have been aware of the situation, nevertheless Imran Khan believed that the marriage would help him develop to be Prime Minister. Reportedly, there was a “prediction” that the PTI chairman will develop to be the prime minister of Pakistan if he married Bushra Bibi.