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Reham Khan ریحام خان | |
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Born | Reham Nayyar[1] April 3, 1973 [2][3][4][5] Ajdabiya, Libya |
Education | Bachelor Degree in Education |
Alma mater | Jinnah College for Women |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 2007–present |
Religion | Islam |
Spouse(s) | Ejaz Rehman (m. 1993; div. 2005)[1] Imran Khan (m. 2015; div. 2015)[6] |
Children | 3 (all from her first marriage) |
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 journalist and film producer of British Pakistani descent.[1][7]
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[hide]Personal life[edit]
Reham was born to Nayyar Ramzan, a Pakistani physician.[8] She is ethnically of mixed Pashtun origins[9] from the Lughmani clan, 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.[10] Her family hails from the small town of Baffa, lying 15 km west of Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.[11] 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 the niece of Abdul Hakeem Khan who was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and former Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court.[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.[14][15][16]
On 6 January 2015, Imran Khan confirmed his marriage to Reham which ended on 30 October 2015 in a divorce.[4][6][17][18][19][20]
Career[edit]
Reham started her career in 2006 hosting shows on Legal TV. In 2007, Reham began presenting for Sunshine Radio Hereford and Worcester.[21] 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.[22] 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.[23] 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.[24]
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