Reham Khan

For the 2018 memoir, see Reham Khan (memoir). For the talk show, see The Reham Khan Show.

Reham Khan
ریحام خان
Born
Reham Nayyar Khan[1]

(1973-04-03) 3 April 1973 (age 51)[2][3][4]
Ajdabiya, Libya
CitizenshipBritish, Pakistani
Alma materJinnah College for Women
OccupationJournalist
Years active2007–present
Spouse(s)
Ejaz Rehman
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(m. 1993; div. 2005)​
[1]
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(m. 2015; div. 2015)​
[5]
Mirza Bilal
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(m. 2022)​
Children3
ParentNayyar Ramzan (father)[1]
RelativesAbdul Hakeem Khan (uncle)
Websitewww.rehamkhanofficial.com

Reham Nayyar Khan (Urdu/Pashto: ریحام نیئر خان ; born 3 April 1973) is a British-Pakistani[6] journalist, author, and filmmaker from Baffa, Pakistan.[1][7] She is a former wife of Imran Khan, who later became Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018, The publication of her memoir shortly before the 2018 Pakistani general election led to claims that its publication was intended to damage Imran Khan's electoral prospects.[8] Khan married Mirza Bilal on 23 December 2022.[9]

Personal life

Reham was born to Nayyar Ramzan, a Pakistani physician.[10] She is of Pashtun ethnicity[11] from the Lughmani Sarkheli clan, a sub-clan of the Swati tribe.[1] She is fluent in four languages: English, Urdu, Pashto and her ancestral Hindko.[12] Her family hails from the town of Baffa, lying 15 km west of Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.[13] Her parents moved to Libya in the late 1960s, where Reham was born in Ajdabiya in 1973. She has one sister and one brother.[1]

Khan is the niece of Abdul Hakeem Khan, a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and former Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court.[14]

Reham has a Bachelor Degree in Education from Jinnah College for Women, Peshawar.[15]

She married Ejaz Rehman (spelling variants include Ijaz), her first cousin and a British psychiatrist, when she was 19. Following their divorce, Khan began working as a broadcast journalist.[1] She has three children who have lived with her since the divorce.[16][17][18]

On 6 January 2015, Imran Khan confirmed his marriage to Reham which ended on 30 October 2015 in a divorce.[5][19][20]

On 2 January 2022, Khan revealed on Twitter that she had narrowly escaped a gun attack in Islamabad when returning home from her nephew's wedding. She said her car was shot at and two men on a motorcycle and they held the vehicle at gunpoint.[21]

Career

Reham started her career in 2006 hosting shows on Legal TV. In 2007, Reham began presenting for Sunshine Radio Hereford and Worcester.[22] In 2008, Khan joined the BBC as a weather presenter.

In 2013, Khan came to Pakistan and joined Pakistani news channel News One (Pakistani TV channel). She later joined Aaj TV. In 2014, following a brief stint at PTV, she joined Dawn News presenting the current affairs show In Focus. Following a brief hiatus in early 2015, she resumed her work with a new show on Dawn. The Reham Khan Show, a programme celebrating Pakistani heroes, debuted in May 2015.[23] In December 2015, she started a new talk show by the name of Tabdeeli on Neo TV. Tabdeeli (change) is also a political slogan of Imran Khan, her former husband.[24] Reham left Neo TV in June 2016.

Reham has also produced a Pakistani film Janaan, the romantic comedy set in Swat which premiered on the occasion of Eid ul Adha on 13 September 2016.[25]

Bibliography

  • Khan, Reham (2018). Reham Khan. SK Publications. ISBN 978-1-9164-1521-8.

References

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  3. ^ "Imran Khan Marries Reham Khan Despite Opposition by Family". Shafaqna. 31 December 2014. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Imran Khan 'secretly married BBC weather girl' despite concerns from family and political party about divorced mother". Mirror. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Imran Khan, Reham divorce with mutual consent". Dawn. Pakistan. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  6. ^ Kokra, Sonali (26 August 2018). "Imran 'chose the wrong woman to mess with': Ex-wife Reham Khan on her tell-all memoir". thenational.ae. Archived from the original on 1 October 2019.
  7. ^ Selby, Jenn (16 January 2015). "Reham Khan: Outrage in Pakistan as former BBC presenter who recently married Imran Khan is filmed cooking sausages". The Independent. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ^ "Reham Khan's book 'available in paperback in UK'". The News (Pakistan). 12 July 2018. Reham's book, published online today, has triggered debate on social media with many saying that she is doing all this on the behest of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz to tarnish the image of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan just before the July 25 polls.
  9. ^ "'Finally found a man I trust' : Imran Khan's ex-wife gets married for 3rd time". Hindustan Times. 23 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  10. ^ "Residents in Reham Khan's hometown celebrate her marriage". thenews.com.pk. 9 January 2015.
  11. ^ "I am Pathan and I fear no one, says Reham on return to Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  12. ^ "Reham Khan got linguistic talent". Samaa TV. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  13. ^ "Residents in Reham Khan's hometown". The News International. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  14. ^ "Reham Khan's father was doctor, uncle Hakeem was ex-governor, CJ". The News. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  15. ^ CITS UoP. "University of Peshawar". University of Peshawar. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  16. ^ Web Desk (15 July 2015). "The case of Reham Khan's 'fake' journalism degree". The Express Tribune News Network. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  17. ^ Web Desk (14 January 2015). "Exclusive: Reham's ex-husband responds to domestic abuse allegations". The Express Tribune News Network. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  18. ^ Murtaza Ali Shah (15 January 2015). "Reham's ex-husband rejects domestic violence charges". The News International. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  19. ^ "Imran Khan 'secretly married BBC weather girl' despite concerns from family and political party about divorced mother". Mirror. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  20. ^ "Imran, Reham divorce with mutual consent – The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  21. ^ "Imran Khan's ex-wife escapes gun attack in Islamabad". www.gulftoday.ae. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  22. ^ "Reham Khan on Awaztv". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  23. ^ Reham Khan – BBC South Today. "Reham Khan Profile on BBC South". BBC Weather. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  24. ^ "Reham Khan co-opts PTI's 'tabdeeli' slogan for new show". The Express Tribune. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  25. ^ Sameen Hassan (14 May 2015). "Reham Khan's first production titled 'Janan' to release next year". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 20 May 2015.