# Courts later acquit Khan and Bushra Bibi on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file

Date: 2024

## The fact

After a February 2024 conviction that the couple’s 2018 marriage violated iddat waiting-period rules, higher courts in 2024 acquitted [Imran Khan](/people/imran-khan) and Bushra Bibi on that file.

## Context

Family-law procedure is not a NAB land file. A trial-court conviction had existed. Reversal is a completed judicial instrument. He did not write the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance.

Cipher acquittal is a neighbouring 2024 reversal. Al-Qadir 2025 is a neighbouring later conviction.

A former prime minister in prison does not write [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) statutes, IMF board decisions, or GHQ orders. An appeal is not an acquittal. A medical note is not a conviction. A party video is not a completed steal of 2024. A jail hospital corridor is not a cabinet.

## Evidence and sources

Islamabad judiciary carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice: a completed acquittal on a family-law file shows reversibility, without touching neighbouring NAB land judgments.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2024 acquittal on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file, independently reported.

Not established: that neighbouring NAB files are void, or a unique later custody coefficient from the acquittal hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The trial court had convicted. He is the acquitted subject on this file only.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Courts later acquit Khan and Bushra Bibi on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file, not a later speech about Courts later acquit Khan and Bushra Bibi on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Courts later acquit Khan and Bushra Bibi on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file on 2024-07-13 is not a licence to treat every later Islamabad judiciary communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Courts later acquit Khan and Bushra Bibi on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Higher courts reversed. The trial court had convicted. He is the acquitted subject on this file only. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-court-acquits-imran-khan-marriage-case-2024-07-13/
- https://www.islamabadhighcourt.gov.pk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-iddat-acquittal-2024