ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has summoned Prime Minister Imran Khan today, Tuesday, in a petition seeking his disqualification.

The case relates to Khan allegedly concealing in the nomination papers he filed to contest the 2018 general elections that he was the father of a child, Tyrian Jade, with a former partner, Sita White. Khan has always denied the paternity.

“The case … will be heard by a two-member bench comprising IHC's Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir,” Pakistan's The News reported. “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, adding that he is no longer Sadiq and Ameen.”

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.

The petitioner, Abdul Wahab Baloch, was a candidate of the Pakistan Justice and Democratic Party in the last general election. 

In 2018, the IHC constituted a two-member divisional bench to hear the Sita White case, which was 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.