{"id":3334,"date":"2015-01-07T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2015-01-07T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:07:27","slug":"imran-khan-confirms-marriage-to-former-bbc-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/imran-khan-confirms-marriage-to-former-bbc-anchor\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan confirms marriage to former BBC anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Imran-Khan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3335\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Imran-Khan.jpg\" alt=\"Imran-Khan\" width=\"245\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Imran-Khan.jpg 245w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Imran-Khan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Imran-Khan-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a>Former Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has confirmed his marriage to a former BBC anchor, according to Pakistan media reports on Tuesday.<br \/>\nI am going to Pakistan to share the good news of my marriage with the nation. I have nothing to hide, he was quoted as saying by Pakistani media, which spoke to him at Heathrow airport late on Monday night before he caught a flight to Islamabad.<br \/>\nKhan also told the Pakistani reporters that getting married isn&#8217;t a crime.<br \/>\nThe 62-year-old head is the head of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Party.<br \/>\nThere have been rumours doing the rounds for the last few days that Imran Khan had secretly married former BBC anchor Reham Khan in a hush-hush wedding.<br \/>\nImran is believed to have tied the knot last weekend with Pakistani news anchor Reham, 41, who is a divorcee and mother-of-three.<br \/>\nShe lived in Britain for part of her previous marriage, when she was a weather girl and presenter on the BBC regional news programme &#8216;South Today&#8217;.<br \/>\nImran was previously married to Jemima &#8216;Goldsmith&#8217; Khan and has two sons with her, Sulaiman Isa and Kasim. The couple divorced in 2004.<br \/>\nJemima had revealed in October this year that she was ditching the surname &#8216;Khan&#8217; and reverting to her family name because her ex-husband was about to remarry.<br \/>\nShe said at the time: My ex-husband, Imran, recently announced that he intended to get remarried soon, which made me think it&#8217;s probably time to change my name back to Goldsmith.<br \/>\nA family friend said that relatives including his sisters were against the marriage and were surprised he went ahead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/imran-khan-confirms-marriage-to-former-bbc-anchor\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has confirmed his marriage to a former BBC anchor, according to Pakistan media reports on Tuesday. I am going to Pakistan to share the good news of my marriage with the nation. I have nothing to hide, he was quoted as saying by Pakistani media, which spoke to him at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}