Reham Khan

Reham Khan
ریحام خان
Born Reham Nayyar[1]
(1973-04-03) April 3, 1973[2][3][4][5]
Ajdabiya, Libya
Education Bachelor Degree in Education
Alma mater Jinnah College for Women, Peshawar
Occupation Journalist
Years active 2007–present
Employer Neo TV[6]
Religion Islam
Spouse(s) Ejaz Rehman (m. 1993; div. 2005)[1]
Imran Khan (m. 2015; div. 2015)[7]
Children 3 (all by Ejaz Rehman)
Parent(s) Nayyar Ramzan (father)[1]
Relatives Abdul Hakeem Khan (uncle)
Website http://www.rehamkhanofficial.com

Reham Nayyar Khan (Urdu: ریحام نئیر خان ‎; born 3 April 1973) is a British Pakistani journalist and film producer.[1]

Personal life

Khan was born to Nayyar Ramzan, a Pakistani physician. She is ethnically a Pashtun[8] from the Lughmani tribe, a sub-clan of the Swati tribe.[1] She is fluent in four languages which include English, Urdu, Pashto and her ancestral Hindko, a dialect of Punjabi language.[9] Her family hails from the village of Baffa, lying 15 km west of Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.[10] 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]

She is also the niece of Abdul Hakeem Khan who was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and former Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court.[11]

Khan has a Bachelor Degree in Education from Jinnah College for Women, Peshawar[12]

She married Ejaz Rehman (Spelling variants include Ijaz), 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.[13][14][15]

On 6 January 2015, Imran Khan confirmed his marriage to Reham which ended on 30 October 2015 in a divorce.[4][7][16][17][18][19]

Career

Khan started her career in 2006 hosting shows on Legal TV. In 2007, Reham began presenting for Sunshine Radio Hereford and Worcester.[20] In 2008, Khan joined BBC as broadcast journalist.

In 2013, Khan came to Pakistan and joined Pakistani news channel News One. 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.[21] 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.[6]

Khan has also produced an upcoming Pakistani film Janaan with Imran Kazmi. The romantic comedy set in Swat, written by Osman Khalid Butt and directed by Azfar Jafri is set for release in early 2016.[22]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Reham Khan: From Hazara to Bani Gala". Express Tribune. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Imran Khan Marries Reham Khan Despite Opposition by Family". Pakistan Tribune. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Imran Khan Marries Reham Khan Despite Opposition by Family". Shafaqna. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Has Imran Khan secretly married BBC weather girl? Rumours rife in Pakistan where his family are 'against' the 'wedding' to divorced mother of three". Daily Mail. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. 1 2 "Reham Khan co-opts PTI's 'tabdeeli' slogan for new show". The Express Tribune. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Imran Khan, Reham divorce with mutual consent". www.dawn.com. 2015-10-30. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  8. ↑ "I am Pathan and I fear no one, says Reham on return to Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Reham Khan got linguistic talent". Samaa TV. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  10. ↑ "Residents in Reham Khan’s hometown". thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  11. ↑ "Reham Khan’s father was doctor, uncle Hakeem was ex-governor, CJ". The News. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  12. ↑ CITS UoP. "University of Peshawar". University of Peshawar. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Web Desk (15 July 2015). "The case of Reham Khan's 'fake' journalism degree". The Express Tribune News Network. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  14. ↑ Web Desk (14 January 2015). "Exclusive: Reham's ex-husband responds to domestic abuse allegations". The Express Tribune News Network. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  15. ↑ Murtaza Ali Shah (15 January 2015). "Reham’s ex-husband rejects domestic violence charges". The News International. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  16. ↑ "Imran Khan has married Reham Khan: Daily Mail". The Nation. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  17. ↑ "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.
  18. ↑ "I've married BBC girl, says Imran Khan: Cricketer-turned-politician confirms he has wed mother-of three before boarding flight to Pakistan to 'share the good news'". Mirror. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  19. ↑ "Imran, Reham divorce with mutual consent - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  20. ↑ "Reham Khan on Awaztv".
  21. ↑ Reham Khan - BBC South Today. "Reham Khan Profile On BBC South". Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  22. ↑ Sameen Hassan (May 14, 2015). "Reham Khan's first production titled 'Janan' to release next year". The Express Tribune. Retrieved May 20, 2015.

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