Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and wife Bushra Bibi married during the latter’s Iddat (the time a woman goes into isolation after her husband dies or divorces her), despite knowing everything, said Mufti Saeed who solemnised the couple’s Nikah.
The remark was made by the cleric while he was giving his statement during the proceedings of the case related to the alleged unIslamic Nikah of the former prime minister with Bushra Riaz Wattoo — who is better known as Bushra Bibi.
The former prime minister was married to Bushra — who is his third wife — in February 2018.
Khan’s friend Zulfi Bukhari and former party leader Awn Chaudhry had said the Nikah was solemnised by Mufti Saeed in Lahore. They both also stood witness to Khan’s Nikah.
Today, Mufti Saeed appeared before a local court in Islamabad with his lawyer to record his statement.
“Imran Khan contacted me on phone on January 2018. At that time I had good ties with Imran Khan and I was a member of his core committee.
“Imran Khan asked me to solemnise his nikkah with Bushra Bibi,” Mufti Saeed told the court.
He further stated that a woman accompanying Bushra Bibi showed herself as her sister.
“I asked her [the woman] if Bushra Bibi’s Nikah can be [solemnised] as per Shariah,” Mufti Saeed said, adding that the woman told him that all requirements for the marriage under the Shariah were complete.
He further stated that he solemnised Khan’s Nikah with Bushra Bibi on January 1, 2018 over the woman’s assurance.
“Then the former premier contacted me again on February 2018 and requested me to solemnise his Nikah with Bushra Bibi again as the first time it was against the Shariah,” Mufti Saeed stated before the court.
He said that the first time when the Nikah was solemnised, Bushra Bibi’s Iddat hadn’t ended. He quoted Khan as saying that Bushra Bibi had been divorced on November 2017 and that there was a “prediction” that the PTI chairman will become the prime minister of Pakistan if he married Bushra Bibi.
Mufti Saeed added that the first Nikah was illegal which had been solemnised basing on the “prediction”.
