Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his third wife were acquitted on charges of marrying unlawfully by a Pakistan court on Saturday, yet he will not be freed after authorities issued fresh orders to arrest him.

Pakistan's Imran Khan to remain in jail despite acquittal in marriage case

The PTI founder and Bushra were sentenced to seven years in prison in February earlier this year after a trial court found their nikah to be fraudulent as Khawar Maneka, Bushra's ex-husband, moved the court against the couple's marriage

Huge relief for Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Iddat case as Islamad court acquits them

In addition, the court had issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Khan in the Toshakhana gifts case—a case unrelated to the one in which he was found guilty in August, taken into custody, and eventually released on bond.

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