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"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.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said there were no
more cases pending against Khan, 71, to keep him in jail after
the acquittal by the court in the capital Islamabad.
The couple were sentenced to seven years in February when a
court found them guilty of breaking Islamic law by failing to
observe the required interval between Bibi's divorce from a
previous marriage and her marriage to Khan.
It was not immediately clear whether Khan and Bibi, both in
jail, would be released following Saturday's decision.
All four jail sentences Khan received ahead of a February
national election have now been overturned or suspended. The
embattled leader, in jail since August, was acquitted this month
of charges of leaking state secrets. The other two sentences
have been suspended.
But a court cancelled his bail last week related to violence in
May 2023, where his supporters attacked military installations
to protest against his arrest.
It was not immediately clear whether Khan had been remanded in
that case to keep him in jail.
Khan is named as an accused party in several other cases,
including the one violence against the state. Bibi is an accused
party on at least one other charge of the couple accepting land
as a bribe from a real estate developer when Khan was in office.
The PTI warned that keeping him in jail despite Saturday's
decision to grant bail on Saturday would lead to another
political crisis.
(Reporting by Asif Shahzad in Islamabad; Editing by William
Mallard)
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