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Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife acquitted on Saturday (13 July) on charges of unlawful marriage, a day after his party won more seats in parliament, ramping up pressure on the country's fragile government.
The couple was sentenced to seven years in February for breaking Islamic law by failing to observe the required interval between Bibi's divorce from a previous marriage and her marriage to Khan.
"Imran Khan and Bibi sahiba are acquitted," Khan lawyer Naeem Panjutha posted on X, using an honorific for Khan's wife, Bushra Khan, also known as Bushra Bibi.
According to Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, there were no more cases pending against Khan, 71, to keep him in jail after the acquittal by the court in the capital Islamabad.
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