Pakistan PM Imran Khan blames how women dress for rise in rape cases

WIFE NUMBER ONE: JEMIMA GOLDSMITH

Jemima Goldsmith, who has now returned to her maiden name, is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Sir James Goldsmith.

Jemima was just 21 years old when she met the 42-year-old Imran Khan, and the couple married in 1995 – first in an Islamic ceremony in Paris and then in a civil ceremony in Richmond, London.

Having converted to Islam, she followed her new husband to Lahore, Pakistan where she learned to speak Urdu.

Khan's wedding to Jemima Goldsmith in Richmond, London, in 1995

Khan’s wedding to Jemima Goldsmith in Richmond, London, in 1995

The couple have two sons, Sulaiman Isa, born in 1996, and Qasim, born in 1999.

During their marriage, she established herself as a philanthropist and social campaigner, fighting for the rights of refugees, freedom of information and various political causes. 

She also began working as a journalist from Pakistan, writing for various British newspapers, and set up a fashion label where the profits were donated to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, named after her mother-in-law.

During their marriage she was subjected to abuse by Imran Khan’s political opponents or those who disagreed with his involvement in politics.

After nine years of marriage, in 2004, the couple announced that they would divorce, citing Jemima’s difficulties to settle in Pakistan.

Speaking in 2011, Khan said he had realised his ex-wife may have been too young and inexperienced to cope with the challenges of his political career.

WIFE NUMBER TWO: REHAM KHAN 

British-Pakistani Reham Khan was born in Ajdabiya, Libya in 1973.

After studies in Pakistan, she began working as a  broadcast journalist in the UK in the mid-noughties, including as a weather presenter for BBC South Today.

After moving to Pakistan in 2012, she met Imran Khan when she interviewed him for a local TV show.

The following year, in 2013, she began presenting a news programme called NewsOne, and continued to work in TV journalism.

Wife number two: Former BBC weather presenter Reham Khan was married to Imran for just ten months in 2015

Wife number two: Former BBC weather presenter Reham Khan was married to Imran for just ten months in 2015

Imran Khan with his bride Reham Khan at his home in Islamabad, Pakistan in January 2015

Imran Khan with his bride Reham Khan at his home in Islamabad, Pakistan in January 2015

Her relationship with Imran Khan remained secret until the end of 2014 when Jemima Goldsmith announced she was going to return to her maiden name because Imran was going to remarry.

They couple married in January 2015 in a ceremony at his Islamabad home, but divorced ten months later.

After the divorce, Reham revealed that she – like Jemima – had been subjected to a hate campaign in Pakistan and that their marriage had not survived it.

The journalist wrote in the Guardian that she had faced ‘a barrage of abuse’ for marrying a man ‘idolised’ in his homeland by millions.

Reham Khan, who has kept her married name, writes on her website that her attention is now focused on ‘social work and humanitarian efforts in Pakistan’.

WIFE NUMBER THREE: BUSHRA WATTOO, FIRST LADY OF PAKISTAN 

Little is known about Bushra Wattoo, a mother-of-five who divorced her first husband last year.

She is said to be Imran Khan’s ‘spiritual healer’ and the pair reportedly met two years ago during an election campaign.

Wattoo, who is also known as ‘Pinki’, comes from a deeply conservative family from eastern Punjab.

Before their relationship, Khan had sought her out for spiritual healing.

Earlier this year, local media reported that Khan caused the divorce between Wattoo and her ex-husband Khawar Fareed Maneka, something which Mr Maneka later denied.

Ceremony: Imran Khan, centre, poses for a photograph with his new wife Bushra Wattoo, second from right, along with relatives during a wedding ceremony in Lahore

Ceremony: Imran Khan, centre, poses for a photograph with his new wife Bushra Wattoo, second from right, along with relatives during a wedding ceremony in Lahore

source: dailymail.co.uk