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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]
Reham Khan
ریحام خان | |
|---|---|
| Born | Reham Nayyar Khan[1] 3 April 1973[2][3][4] |
| Citizenship | British, Pakistani |
| Alma mater | Jinnah College for Women |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Ejaz Rehman
(m. 1993; div. 2005)[5] Mirza Bilal (m. 2022) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent | Nayyar Ramzan (father)[1] |
| Relatives | Abdul Hakeem Khan (uncle) |
| Website | www |
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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]
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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]
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- Khan, Reham (2018). Reham Khan. SK Publications. ISBN 978-1-9164-1521-8.
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