Pakistan, June 17 -- The Supreme Court of Pakistan has dismissed an appeal filed by a former husband, holding that the repeated use of criminal and civil proceedings to challenge a woman's remarriage after the dissolution of marriage through khula amounted to harassment and an abuse of the legal process.

The court ruled that a marriage stands legally dissolved upon the completion of the iddat period following a decree of khula, and that a woman thereafter has the full legal right to remarry. It observed that the unjustified initiation of legal proceedings in such circumstances constitutes a misuse of judicial processes.

According to a detailed judgment approved for reporting, a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and...