Video does not show Pakistani judge presiding over Imran Khan's illegal marriage case

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Video does not show Pakistani judge presiding over Imran Khan's illegal marriage case
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A man from Pakistan's third largest city Rawalpindi has told AFP he was mistaken for a judge presiding over former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan's illegal marriage case in posts that showed him throwing money towards a female dancer.

A man from Pakistan's third largest city Rawalpindi has told AFP he was mistaken for a judge presiding over former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan's illegal marriage case in posts that showed him throwing money towards a female dancer. The posts -- viewed hundreds of thousands of times -- circulated as Khan and his third wife appealed their convictions from jail.as"Papu Patwari", throwing cash towards a woman dressed in white as she dances in a large hall.

The post -- viewed more than 394,000 times -- referred to a judge presiding over Khan's"illegal marriage" case. Similar posts were shared acrossThe conviction centred on an Islamic law known as"iddat", which dictates that a widowed or divorced woman must wait three months before remarrying. Khan and his wife have filed appeals against the verdict from prison.

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