{"id":15064,"date":"2024-02-04T00:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T00:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/jailed-pakistani-former-prime-minister-imran-khan-and-wife-convicted-for-fraudulent-marriage\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T00:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T00:46:23","slug":"jailed-pakistani-former-prime-minister-imran-khan-and-wife-convicted-for-fraudulent-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/jailed-pakistani-former-prime-minister-imran-khan-and-wife-convicted-for-fraudulent-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan and wife convicted for \u201cfraudulent marriage\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Jailed Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan and\u00a0his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to seven years in prison after a district court ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            This is the third sentence for Khan and the second for his wife this week.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Bibi\u2019s former husband, Khawar Farid Maneka, had filed a case against Khan and Bibi almost six years after his divorce and accused them of marrying without completing the Iddat \u2014 a compulsory waiting period in Islam after divorce \u2014 and committing adultery.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The conviction was by a district court in Adiala Jail in the city of Rawalpindi where Imran Khan \u2013 who has been imprisoned since August on various charges \u2013 is currently incarcerated. Proceedings were held in the jail due to security reasons.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) released a statement condemning the judgment calling it \u201ca mockery of the law.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            PTI spokesperson Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari told journalists that he was a witness to the marriage ceremony in 2018 and called the judgement \u201ca victory for Imran Khan. Shows everything else is also false on him hence such ridiculous cases and sentences need to be slapped on him.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            This latest conviction adds to a myriad of recent legal woes for Khan.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            His political party said Tuesday that he had been sentenced, along with former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, to 10 years in\u00a0prison\u00a0for\u00a0leaking state secrets.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Then, the following day, PTI said the former prime minister and his wife were each sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption relating to the unlawful sale of state gifts during his tenure as prime minister from 2018 to 2022.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The judgements comes before Pakistan\u2019s General Election on Thursday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Khan is barred from contesting and cannot hold office for a decade, according to PTI.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The former star cricketer turned politician, who rose to power on a ticket of anti-corruption, was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in April 2022 after being embroiled in political controversy.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Pakistan\u2019s upcoming election is seen by many analysts as one of the least credible in the country\u2019s nearly 77-year history, owing to the military\u2019s crackdown on Khan and his aides.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan and\u00a0his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to seven years in prison after a district court ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law. This is the third sentence for Khan and the second for his wife this week. Bibi\u2019s former husband, Khawar Farid Maneka, had filed a case <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}