Court declares plea against Imran's marriage inadmissible.

ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad district and sessions court on Saturday declared inadmissible an application pleading that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan's marriage was 'illegal'. Civil Senior Judge Nasr Minullah Baloch reserved his decision and later announced that the plea was inadmissible. In its decision, the court further said that the matter of marriage during the period of iddat was beyond its jurisdiction. The iddat period is a waiting period that a Muslim woman must observe on account of the death of her husband or the dissolution of the marriage. The alleged un-Islamic nikkah of Imran and Bushra Bibi was brought to light by a petition filed by Muhammad Hanif, a citizen...

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