LAHORE (Staff Report) – Reham Khan, the TV anchor who became second wife to cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan however the couple announced divorce after ten months of marriage, has finally confirmed that she received divorce in an email, not in any text message from Imran Khan.
In her first ever interview to any Pakistani TV channel since her divorce, Neo TV, Reham said that sending divorce was not a correct way according to Islamic Shariah but Imran Khan opted to divorce her through an email when she was on her way to London on October 30.
She said that divorce was a bitter experience and she underwent this situation twice. I was called an MI-6 agent after divorce with Imran Khan and people abused me on social media, she added.
At one time during the interview, Reham said “I came to know that how many faults I had in my personality through the hate content that was posted at social media after my divorce.”
While commenting about whether Imran Khan divorced her by his personal will, she said I am not a fortuneteller who can tell something not even known to her.
“Everybody makes decisions according to his best plan but Allah also has a plan for him, and His plan is the one which actually prevails,” Reham Khan said.
Hinting at joining politics in future, she said that I belong to a political family where my mother was associated with PML-Q and my uncle remained governor in Zia era.
Previously Reham Khan had revealed that her marriage with Imran Khan was not registered anywhere in Pakistan or Britain, in “Why Imran Divorced Me” interview with The Sunday Times.
She further added that she thought Imran Khan was in love with her but it was not true and she was left defenseless against the media criticism.
“Imran Khan did not give me my marriage ring or bangles even,” Reham has been quoted saying.
No body from Imran Khan’s political party, PTI, or his family took charge to explain my position in that situation, she complained.
Instead I was told to ignore the smear campaign by Pakistani media while Imran Khan thought all this will automatically come to an end, she added.
When asked about her relationship with Imran’s family, Reham told her husband’s sisters had categorically stated that they are against our marriage. They said I was not enough good to be their brother’s wife and they never welcomed me as his wife even after marriage, she explained.
Meanwhile my own brother was also not happy at my marriage with Imran Khan and I had to convince him for this, she said.
Commenting about her willingness to take over Imran Khan’s political party, the TV anchor said party’s senior leadership had told Imran Khan that they were uneasy in working with me. She further added that one of close aides of Imran Khan even said that he only wanted me to cook in the kitchen.
Dismissing the rumors of hitting her husband and not allowing his pet dogs in bedroom, Reham Khan said that her relationship with Imran Khan was much troubled in the last month of marriage at which they decided to part their ways finally.
Referring to her ‘black magic’ tweets, Reham said that I had found some suspicious papers of magical spells from Bani Gala residence. She however avoided telling further details about the person behind this.
I will be back in Pakistan very soon and resume my job as TV journalist, she said in answer to a question about her future plan.
Imran Khan, 62, married Reham Khan, 41, in January this year, after weeks long denial to claims of senior journalist Arif Nizami that said the couple was set to marry.
The couple formally tied knot in Islamabad and celebrated their valima at Khan’s residence in Bani Gala after months of speculation about secret marriage.
Reham, divorced mother-of-three, earlier lived in Britain and was associated with BBC as a weather host.
Imran Khan married to Jemima Goldsmith in May 1995. Jemima was a British writer and activist. They have two sons, Sulaiman Isa Khan and Qasim Khan. The marriage ended in divorce in 2004.
