For the women of Pakistan, it was cause for mourning. For the
conservatives in the Muslim nation, it was cause for anger. But for the
man himself, it was cause for celebration.
Imran Khan, 62,
announced that he was becoming a married man, telling a press conference
at his 80ha Islamabad estate that "marriage is not a crime".
It was not clear whether the couple had married already.
Imran Khan. Photo / AP
Khan's
bride is former BBC weather presenter Reham Khan, 41, a divorced
mother-of-three, who moved back to her native Pakistan in 2013.
Khan
has two sons with his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith, whom he had married in a
traditional Islamic ceremony in Paris in 1995 and divorced in 2004. He
is noted as Pakistan's only political leader whose public meetings are
attended by women, especially the young.
Khan himself said he had waited this long to remarry for the sake of his children.
But
his opponents have seized on Reham Khan's high profile and television
career as a sign that she was ill-suited to marry the politician, and
launched attacks against her character. Photos of her attending a horse
race in a knee-length dress were criticised, as were shots of her
dancing a tango on a BBC show.
Imran's rocky start
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