Reham Nayyar Khan (

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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: ; born 3 April 1973) is a

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journalist, author, and filmmaker from

Baffa Baffa ( ur, Pashto :بفه ) is a town, a union council and capital of Tehsil Baffa Pakhal of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It lies about 15 km north of the district capital, Mansehra. History Baffa ma ...

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. She is a former wife of

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

, who later became

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in 2018, The publication of her memoir shortly before the

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led to claims that its publication was intended to damage Imran Khan's electoral prospects. Khan married Mirza Bilal on December 23, 2022.

Personal life

Reham was born to Nayyar Ramzan, a Pakistani physician. She is ethnically of

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...

origins from the Lughmani clan, a sub-clan of the Swati tribe. She is fluent in four languages which include

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Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

and her ancestral

Hindko Hindko (, romanized: , ) is a cover term for a diverse group of Lahnda dialects spoken by several million people of various ethnic backgrounds in several areas in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and P ...

. Her family hails from the town of

, lying 15 km west of

Mansehra Mansehra is a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Mansehra District. It is the 71st largest city of Pakistan and 7th largest city in the province. The name of the city (written in Hindko, Urdu and Gojr ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

province. Her parents moved to Libya in the late 1960s, where Reham was born in

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in 1973. She has one sister and one brother. She is the niece of

Abdul Hakeem Khan Abdul Hakeem Khan was a former governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and former Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court He belongs to Swati tribe of Baffa, the largest Union Council of Mansehra District. He was appointed as the G ...

who was a former governor of the

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province and former Chief Justice of

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. Reham has a

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in Education from

Jinnah College for Women Jinnah College for Women, ( ur, ) formerly the University College for Women, is an institute of education for women located in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History The College came into existence as a constituent College of the Univers ...

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

. 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. She has three children who have lived with her since the divorce. On 6 January 2015,

confirmed his marriage to Reham which ended on 30 October 2015 in a divorce. On 2 January 2022, Khan revealed on

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that she had narrowly escaped a gun attack in

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when returning home from her nephew's wedding. She said her car was shot at and two men on a motorcycle and they held the vehicle at gunpoint.

Career

Reham started her career in 2006 hosting shows on Legal TV. In 2007, Reham began presenting for

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and

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. In 2008, Khan joined BBC as weather girl. In 2013, Khan came to Pakistan and joined Pakistani news channel

News One (Pakistani TV channel) ''News One'' is a Pakistani Urdu-language TV channel, based in Karachi. It launched on 27 November 2007 and is owned by Air Waves Media (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of the Interflow Group which also owns TV One, Waseb TV, Sonic TV and FM91. The ch ...

. 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 ''The Reham Khan Show'' was a 2015 Pakistani talk show on Dawn News, that is hosted by British Pakistani journalist Reham Khan. The show made its debut on 24 May 2015. It features a new celebrity every week telecasted every Sunday at 11PM Pak ...

'', a programme celebrating Pakistani heroes, debuted in May 2015. 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. Reham left Neo TV in June 2016. Reham has also produced a Pakistani film ''

Janaan ''Janaan'' (Urdu/Pashto: جانان; ) is a 2016 Pakistani romantic comedy film directed by Azfar Jafri, written by Osman Khalid Butt and co-produced by Hareem Farooq, Munir Hussain, Imran Raza Kazmi and Reham Khan, under production banners ...

'', the romantic comedy set in

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which premiered on the occasion of

Eid ul Adha Eid al-Adha () is the second and the larger of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). It honours the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ismail (Ishmael) as an act of obedience to Allah's ...

on 13 September 2016.

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