A Pakistan court acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on Saturday on charges of unlawful marriage, a day after his party won more seats in parliament, ramping up pressure on the country\u2019s fragile government.
\n\u201cImran Khan and Bibi sahiba are acquitted,\u201d Khan lawyer Naeem Panjutha posted on X, using an honorific for Khan\u2019s wife, Bushra Khan, also known as Bushra Bibi.
\nKhan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said there were no more cases pending against Khan, 71, to keep him in jail after the acquittal by the court in the capital Islamabad.
\nThe couple were sentenced to seven years in February when a court found them guilty of breaking Islamic law by failing to observe the required interval between Bibi\u2019s divorce from a previous marriage and her marriage to Khan.
\nAll four jail sentences Khan received ahead of a February national election have now been overturned or suspended. The embattled leader, in jail since August, was acquitted this month of charges of leaking state secrets. The other two sentences have been suspended.
\nBut a court cancelled his bail last week related to violence in May 2023, where his supporters attacked military installations to protest against his arrest.
\nIt was not immediately clear whether Khan had been remanded in that case to keep him in jail.
\nKhan is named as an accused party in several other cases, including the one violence against the state. Bibi is an accused party on at least one other charge of the couple accepting land as a bribe from a real estate developer when Khan was in office.
\nThe PTI warned that keeping him in jail despite Saturday\u2019s decision to grant bail on Saturday would lead to another political crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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