Rangeela Kaptaan: Tale of Imran Khan’s 3 wives, allegations of infidelity and illegitimate youngsters

By India Today World Desk: Imran Khan has led a vibrant life, every as a cricketer and later as a politician. And his personal life isn’t any a lot much less vibrant or a lot much less out of limelight. Married twice sooner than, Imran Khan is presently in his third innings. And his third partner, Bushra Bibi, may very correctly present to be his nemesis.

The cricketer-turned-politician was arrested on Tuesday in reference to the Al-Qadir Trust case. The perception was formed by Imran Khan, his partner Bushra Bibi, and their shut aides. Bushra Bibi then went on to sign a memorandum in 2019 with an precise property company, Bahria Town, to acquire donations from it.

The case, which led to Imran Khan’s arrest and the next unrest in Pakistan, has as quickly as as soon as extra launched the personal lifetime of the earlier cricketer beneath scanner. Here’s a fast check out Imran Khan’s three weddings and two divorces, and as well as the allegations referring to his infidelity.

IMRAN KHAN AND JEMIMA GOLDSMITH

Jemima Goldsmith, a British screenwriter, television, film and documentary producer, was Imran Khan’s first partner. The couple married in 1995 and divorced in 2004.

They have two sons — Sulaiman Isa (born in 1996) and Kasim (born in 1999).

The exact causes for his or her divorce have not been extensively disclosed. However, it has been extensively reported that the couple confronted challenges because of pressures of Imran Khan’s political occupation and the cultural variations between the couple.

Imran Khan’s involvement in politics and his dedication to his political celebration, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), is believed to have put strain on their relationship. Additionally, Jemima Goldsmith, who’s of British origin, confronted difficulties adapting to the cultural and political setting in Pakistan.

Both Jemima Goldsmith and Imran Khan have maintained a respectful relationship since their divorce and have continued to co-parent their two youngsters.

Jemima had in June 2021 criticised Imran Khan for his sexist and derogatory in path of women. She spoke out in opposition to him after his remarks that women’s attire may provoke sexual harassment and assault. The remarks drew criticism from girls’s rights activists and civil society too.

In November 2022, Jemima tweeted she was relieved on the data of the earlier Pakistan PM being safe after the attempt on his life.

“The news we dread. Thank God he’s okay. And thank you from his sons to the heroic man in the crowd who tackled the gunman,” she tweeted.

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REHAM KHAN AND HER TELL-ALL BOOK

Imran Khan had the shortest marriage alongside together with his second partner, Reham Khan. The couple married in October 2014 and filed for divorce barely a 12 months after. And this one did not end on a wonderful discover, as was evident after Reham launched a tell-all ‘biography’.

In the 500-odd-page e e book, Reham Khan gave lurid and graphic particulars on Imran Khan’s “preferences”. Imran Khan’s “confessions” about his illegitimate youngsters (“He told me he has five, including Indian children,” acknowledged Reham once more in 2018) are part of the e e book. She writes about Imran pleasuring himself to “images of male bodies”. She devotes rather a lot paper and ink to Imran’s sexual life; from empty cigar circumstances to tubes of KY jelly.

Reham Khan acknowledged that early in her marriage with Imran, as soon as they’d been talking about Tyrian White (who she claims is “universally accepted as Imran’s love child”), the earlier cricket star acknowledged, “You know she isn’t the only one I have….There are five in total, that I know of.”

He acknowledged the mothers educated him, Reham claims. “Some are Indians. The eldest is 34 now,” she quotes him as saying.

Reham moreover claimed that she seen sexually particular textual content material messages from two girls PTI leaders on her husband’s phone.

The timing of the discharge of the e e book coincided with Imran Khan contesting the nation’s regular elections in 2018.

Reham moreover hurled allegations of infidelity in opposition to Imran. She claimed that Imran was seeing Bushra, his now partner, whereas he was nonetheless married to her.

The unhealthy blood between the duo did not end proper right here. In January 2022, Reham Khan alleged that she was accosted by unidentified males who opened fireplace on the automobile she was travelling in. Targeting her former husband over the assault, Reham Khan acknowledged Pakistan had develop to be a land of “cowards, thugs and the greedy” beneath Imran Khan’s rule.

Months later, whereas Imran Khan was going by way of a no-confidence motion, Reham Khan, in an interview with India Today, slammed her ex-husband for being “a celebrity diva who only wants to listen to flattery, compliments”.

“He has this typical diva character that he should pump up his ego. He needs to take heed to the applause, he needs to take heed to the sound of his title and I really feel even in cricket or Bollywood, it is worthwhile to have the effectivity,” Reham Khan said.

Reham Khan even called Imran Khan “delusional” and said, “He would not take heed to advice. Had he listened to advice, perhaps I’d nonetheless be married to him.”

VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE TO BUSHRA BIBI QUESTIONED

Imran Khan then took a third probability at marriage as he tied the knot with Bushra Bibi in 2018.

Unfortunately for Imran Khan, who was been a public decide for practically 5 a few years, even his third marriage could not escape controversy.

The cleric who carried out the nikah of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi testified in courtroom docket that the ceremony was carried out all through Bushra Bibi’s Iddat interval. The iddat interval (three months) is a prepared interval {{that a}} Muslim lady ought to observe on account of the lack of lifetime of her husband or the dissolution of earlier marriage.

According to the cleric, Imran Khan suggested him that, on the time of the preliminary ceremony, Bushra’s iddat interval had not been completed as she was divorced in November 2017.

The cleric acknowledged the earlier Pakistan PM and his partner deliberate their bridal ceremony no matter being acutely aware of the state of affairs. He moreover alleged that Imran Khan had confided in him that he believed marrying Bushra would lead to him turning into the prime minister.

While the validity of Imran Khan’s bridal ceremony was nonetheless being questioned, the earlier Pakistan found himself arrested in a case that has shut hyperlinks alongside together with his third partner.