Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan risks disqualification as a legislator amid his ex-wife Reham Khan’s claims that their 10-month marriage was never registered.

According to Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961, failure to register a marriage is a crime which carries three-month jail and up to Rs 1,000 fine for the bridegroom as well as the nikah khawan (the cleric who solemnised the marriage). A convicted person can’t hold a public office under the Constitution.

Mr Khan landed in a controversy when his ex-wife Reham told Sunday Times that her marriage was not registered anywhere in Britain or Pakistan. “After a 10-month marriage, you’re not entitled to anything,” Reham was quoted as saying by the paper.

Probe showed the nikah was not registered at Bani Gala, Islamabad, where the marriage took place.

AC Secretariat Waqas Rashid confirmed that the Nikah was not registered with his office. “It is indeed not registered with my office,” he said, adding that the Nikah Khawan should be asked where he got the marriage registered.