ISLAMABAD – The Federal Shariat Court has dismissed a plea seeking a decreeagainst Prime Minister Imran Khan’s marriage in light of a questionnairecomprising Islamic laws and constitutional provisions.
A three-member Federal Shariat Court bench, led by Chief Justice MohammadNoor Meskanzai, reportedly observed that the petition against the premier’smarriage doesn’t suit in the eyes of law as it was not filed in accordancewith the Federal Shariat Court (Procedure) Rules 1981.
The court ruled that the petitioner failed to mention any specificprovision of law being repugnant to the injunctions of Quran and Sunnah asrequired by the Constitution, and termed it as non-maintainable.
The three-member bench termed the petitioner’s questions ‘absurd,derogatory and absolutely irrelevant’ and also mentioned the questionnaireasked by the petitioner.
The report in DAWN suggests that the unidentified petitioner asked tenquestions like whether Holy Quran empowers wife to seek dissolution ofmarriage from her husband, and whether a mother of children can seek Khulafrom her husband for a second marriage.
The court further remarked that the petitioner quoted only one verse of the20th chapter of the Quran to maintain his argument. The court mentionedthat the verse of Surah Taha has no link whatsoever with the dissolution ofmarriage on the basis of Khula.
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It also pointed out some questions as ambiguous, inconceivable, and notunderstandable, as they don’t suppose to be framed in context. The benchtold the petitioner to file a separate petition by challenging thecorresponding provisions incorporated in Nikkahnama.
The petitioner was required to have shown either collectively orindividually any corresponding law or provision of the law enacted andenforced that ran contrary to the injunctions of the Holy Quran or Sunnahof Prophet Muhammad SAW.
Shedding light on section 10 of the Family Courts Act which is related toKhula, the court termed it as a past and closed chapter.
