ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking the disqualification of Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case that relates to him allegedly concealing in election nomination papers that he was the father of a child with a former partner.
Khan has always denied he is the father of Tyrian Jade, the daughter of Sita White.
“The case, which was filed with reference to Sita White, was heard by a two-member bench comprising IHC’s Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir,” Geo News reported. “Both judges announced the decision to dismiss the petition today.”
The petitioner had contested that the premier should be disqualified under Article 62(i)(f) of the constitution for providing incorrect information in his nomination papers for the 2018 general election. Article 62 of the Pakistani constitution explains the qualifications for members of the Majlis-i-Shoora, or parliament, including that candidates be ‘Sadiq’ and ‘Ameen,’ or honest and righteous.
After the case was filed in 2018, the IHC constituted a two-member divisional bench headed by former IHC judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui. The other member of the bench was Justice Minallah.
In 2019, the IHC threw out a similar petition seeking the disqualification of Khan, terming it non-maintainable as it involved a “personal matter.”
In 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, daughter of the late billionaire Anglo-French entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith. They had two sons before divorcing. Khan married for a second time in 2014 which ended in divorce and is now married for a third time.
Sita White, the daughter of the late millionaire British industrialist Lord Gordon White, had a relationship with Khan in 1987 and 1988, according to her attorneys.
