Mufti Saeed Khan told the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday that he officiated over Imran Khan’s nikkah with Bushra Bibi in violation of sharia laws in 2018.

Mufti Saeed recorded his statement in court in case that alleges Imran Khan married Bushra Begum before her iddat was over. The court also accepted a request to expedite hearing which had been scheduled for April 28.

Saeed told the court that he was on good terms with Imran Khan and was a member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s core committee in January 2018 he was received a call from Imran Khan. He said that Imran asked him to officiate his nikkah in Lahore.

He said that he was taken to a house in Lahore’s Defence Housing Authority where Bushra Bibi was present with another woman who identified herself as Bushra’s sister.

Mufti Saeed said that he asked if Bushra’s iddat (waiting period) had been completed to which the woman replied in the affirmative. She added that all sharia requirements for the marriage were complete. Mufti Saeed also said that Imran Khan also told him that Bushra’s divorce with Khawar Maneka had been finalised in November 2017, so her iddat was over.

The mufti also claimed that Imran had told him of a prediction by Bushra Bibi, saying that Imran would become prime minister if he married her.

He also told the court the couple knew at the time that the nikkah went against sharia’s limitations but but they started living together in Islamabad anyway.

Mufti says that Imran contacted him again in February, a month after the first nikah and told him that the marriage would have to be officiated again since Bushra Bibi’s iddat had not been completed when the first nikkah took place. Therefore, the nikkah took place again.

The mufti further added that the petitioner Muhammad Hanif had met him in Ramazan 2023 after taraweeh prayers and asked him detailas about Imran’s marriage.

Tyrian White case

Imran Khan is also facing another case in the same court for failing to disclose Tyrian White as his daughter in his nomination papers.

The case claims that the Imran is an illegitimate parent to Tyrian and is therefore not fit for public office due to misdeclration.