The Jail administration on Thursday refused to transfer Bushra Bibi from Bani Gala to Adiala.
Islamabad: Jail administration refuses to transfer Bushra Bibi from Bani Gala to Adiala Jail. The Islam High Court heard the Bushra Bibi’s transfer request from Bani Gala to Adiala Jail. Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb heard the case.
During the hearing, the Superintendent of Adiala Jail refused to transfer Bushra Bibi to jail.
According to the report, the jail administration said there is less space in the jail as 250 women are already imprisoned there.
On the other hand, the Chief Commissioner of Islamabad has not yet submitted his response. The court granted the more time request and adjourned the hearing for two weeks.
It should be noted that Bushra Bibi has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Tosha Khana and illegal marriage cases. She filed an application in court begging transfer to Adiala Jail.
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Who is Bushra Bibi
The rumours about Imran Khan’s third wife did not take long to start swirling.
For a start, Bushra Maneka – as she was known before her marriage to Pakistan’s former cricket captain-turned-politician – was quite different to her two glamorous predecessors. While Britain’s Jemima Goldsmith and journalist Reham Khan graced the covers of magazines and television screens, she stayed hidden behind a veil.
In fact, Khan told the Mail on Sunday proudly in 2018 that he “did not catch a glimpse of my wife’s face until after we were married” – something that he said would have been “unthinkable” back in the 1980s, his heyday on the London nightclub circuit.
It was, he said, Bushra’s intellect and character which drew him to her. But that was not what really got people talking – it was, instead, the mystical powers she was credited with.
The woman now known as Bushra Bibi was, in fact, a faith healer with a small following who respected her as a spiritual adviser.
On Wednesday the couple were both sentenced to jail and fined more than $2m each in a corruption case – news that had readers round the world googling her name to find out more about her.
Some say Bushra Bibi’s attached to the Sufi tradition, but that is disputed by others. Often described as Islamic mysticism, Sufism – which her husband says he has been interested in for more than three decades – emphasises the inner search for God and the renunciation of worldly matters.
It’s a far cry from his cricketing years when he developed a reputation as a playboy before settling down to a society marriage that was never far from the limelight.
In 1995, at the age of 43, he married the 21-year-old British heiress, Jemima Goldsmith – the daughter of one of the world’s richest men at the time. The marriage lasted nine years and produced two sons.
A second marriage in 2015, to journalist and former BBC weather presenter Reham Khan, lasted less than a year. She alleges she was bullied by his supporters and wrote a tell-all memoir.
By contrast, Imran Khan’s 2018 marriage to Bushra Bibi was a low-profile ceremony. Observers say the match plays well with his public shows of devotion to Islam.
