Imran Khan to divorce for 2nd time
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PAKISTANI opposition leader Imran Khan is to divorce for a second time, ending his marriage to a TV journalist just 10 months after they wed.
The former cricketer, 62, married 42-year-old Reham Khan, a former BBC weather host and mother of three, in January.
“We have decided to part ways and file for divorce,” Reham Khan said on her Twitter account yesterday.
Imran Khan tweeted that it was a “painful time” and that he has “the greatest respect for Reham’s moral character & her passion to work for & help the underprivileged.”
Naeem ul Haque, Imran Khan’s spokesman said the decision to divorce was mutual.
“It’s a painful and personal matter, so I won’t be able to comment more or state any reason for it,” he said.
Loved by millions across the cricket-obsessed nation for winning Pakistan its only World Cup in 1992, Khan’s sporting prowess and good looks brought him international celebrity.
He was considered his country’s most eligible man until he suddenly announced his plans to marry shortly after launching a movement to topple the government in August 2014, which he called off in December after a Taliban attack on a school that killed 150 people.
Reham Khan, host of a local TV talk show, was widely criticized after she appeared at public meetings of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) party, with some accusing her of seeking to boost her profile through her husband’s fame.
She found particularly harsh reception in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, governed by PTI.
She also sparked controversy after it emerged she had not actually attended a college where she claimed to be a student. There had also been reports Imran Khan’s family was unhappy with his choice of bride.
Imran Khan is the father of two sons from his previous marriage to British socialite Jemima Khan (nee Goldsmith).
Born in 1952 in Lahore into a comfortable family with origins in the Pashtun northwest, he was educated at Aitchison College, the Eton of Pakistan, boarding school in England, and then Oxford University.
He became one of the world’s best all-rounders whose finest hour came at the 1992 World Cup, where aged 39 he led an inexperienced team to the title.
Off the pitch, he had a string of socialite girlfriends and frequented exclusive nightclubs in London until he married Goldsmith in 1995.
They divorced in 2004, allegedly over the difficulties Jemima faced in Pakistan, where she was hounded for her family’s Jewish ancestry, and his obsession with politics.
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