Imran Khan denies reports of marriage collapse with Reham

PTI chief's statement comes after a local media report suggested his marriage with Reham was on the rocks

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan rejected on Wednesday a media report suggesting his marriage with Reham Khan was on the rocks.

"I am shocked at a TV channel making a slanderous statement about my marriage. I strongly urge the media to desist from such baseless statements,” the PTI chief said on microblogging website Twitter.

I am shocked at a tv channel making slanderous statement abt my marriage. I strongly urge the media to desist from such baseless statements

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) September 23, 2015

On Tuesday, a local media report alleged the cricketer-turned-politician’s wife was staying at his Bani Gala residence even though she was “not welcome there any longer.”

Read:'Jemima running smear campaign against Reham'

The report, citing the editor of a local daily newspaper, claimed that Imran had recently returned from London where he had recently stayed with his children and Jemima, his ex-wife.

“The relationship with Reham, already on the rocks, has worsened since Khan returned to Pakistan. Differences between the couple may have reached point of no return,” the report stated.

Read: Reham used me ‘like toilet paper to clean up her image’: former husband

Jemima had tweeted photos of Imran and her sons posing together on her Instagram account during the PTI chairman's stay in London.

https://instagram.com/p/7d5bcVq7px/

This is not the first time, Imran has been forced to clarify controversies regarding his marriage.  Soon after the couple married, Reham’s ex-husband, NHS psychiatrist Dr Ijaz Rehman strongly denied allegations he had mistreated her during their marriage.

“I have never been involved in any kind of domestic violence in any shape or form,” said Dr Rehman, with whom she has three children. “I always looked after my children and wife very well.”

Further, Dr Rehman claimed she used him “like toilet paper to clean up her image” after she found herself harshly criticised by traditionalists in Pakistan who saw Imran’s bride as far too Westernised.

Read: Caught in the act: Reham alters university name on official website

Further, months after their marriage, it was found that Reham had not attended the Lincolnshire college as she had claimed on her personal website. She said she studied journalism at ‘North Lindsay College’ in Scunthorpe.

However, the college confirmed that it had never taught journalism and had no record of her being a student. She subsequently changed her website to state that she went to the Grimsby Institute.