Wedding Bells: Reham Khan hails from Hazara Division

MANSEHRA:

Reham Khan hails from Hazara Division. A former BBC journalist and current affairs anchor for a private television channel in Pakistan, Khan has been under heavy media scrutiny for the past few weeks over her marriage with the PTI chief.  

Reham Khan, whose real name is Reham Nayyar, is daughter of Dr Nayyar Ramzan from Baffa village in Mansehra District.

She belongs to the Lughmani branch of the Swati tribe. Former civil servant and governor of the then NWFP Abdul Hakeem Khan was her paternal uncle, Reham’s family revealed.

Her father is a physician who moved to Libya in the late 1960s.

Reham was born in Ajdabiya on April 3, 1973. She has two sisters and a brother and currently resides in Rawalpindi with her mother.

Reham was previously married to her first cousin Ejazur Rehman in 1992. At the time, she was only 19 while Rehman was 33. According to her family, the marriage ended five years ago after the couple developed differences over Reham’s job at the BBC.

“As far as I know, Reham’s husband objected to her busy work routine,” one of her relatives told The Express Tribune.

Reham obtained a khula from her husband through a family court in Abbottabad. They have three children who now live with their father in England.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 9^th, 2015.