Reham Khan is a British Pakistani[6] journalist, author, and filmmaker.[1][8]
She married Pakistani former cricketer and politician Imran Khan in January 2015. The couple divorced after 9 months.
Personal life
Reham was born to Nayyar Ramzan, a Pakistani physician.[9] She is ethnically of Pashtun origins[10] from the Lughmani clan, a sub-clan of the Swati tribe.[1]
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]
Reham has a Bachelor's degree in Education from Jinnah College for Women, Peshawar[11]
She married Ejaz Rehman, her first cousin and 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.[12][13][14]
On 6 January 2015, Imran Khan confirmed his marriage to Reham which ended on 30 October 2015 in a divorce.[4][7][15][16][17][18]
Career
Reham started her career in 2006 hosting shows on Legal TV. In 2007, Reham began presenting for Sunshine Radio Hereford and Worcester.[19] In 2008, Khan joined BBC as broadcast journalist.
In 2013, Khan joined Pakistani news channel News One. In 2014, following a brief stint at PTV, she joined Dawn News presenting the current affairs show In Focus. In May 2015, she began to host The Reham Khan Show, a programme celebrating Pakistani heroes.[20] 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.[21]
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.[22]
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