By Iram Salim
Islamabad (Pakdestiny.com) ‘Fake degree saga’ has come to haunt Imran Khan after his wife Reham Khan has been embroiled in the controversy.
The Daily Mail today exposed Ms Khan on her broadcast journalism degree, thus making Mr Khan to lose ‘moral ground’ on taking on ‘fake degree holders’. Imran is upset and is at loss as how his wife could be so causal in ‘lying’ about her degrees or diplomas on her website.
Rehman Khan instead of properly clarifying her position ‘insulted’ the Pakistani media for acting irresponsibly over the British tabloid story. She tweeted
In my statement I have put the course code & specific campus. Also additional info on website now. Please move on to serious issues.
The British Journalist SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE writes
When I disclosed in January that cricket legend Imran Khan had secretly married former BBC presenter Reham Khan, his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith seemed less than thrilled and publicly thanked Pakistanis who contacted her to say she remained their favourite First Lady.
Now questions are starting to be asked about the CV of TV journalist Reham, 42, who left Britain for Pakistan two years ago. Reham’s personal website states that she won her post as a reporter on the BBC regional show South Today after starting a postgraduate course ‘in Broadcast Journalism at North Lindsay [sic] College’, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
However, according to officials at North Lindsey, it has never offered such a course.
Indeed, it does not teach journalism at all. Furthermore, they can find no record of anyone bearing Khan’s name or age ever having enrolled.
Questions are starting to be asked about Reham’s CV. She is pictured with her husband
‘We do not have anyone by those names or date of birth having attended this college,’ says a spokesman. ‘We have never done a degree in broadcast journalism.’
Reham could not be reached for comment but it is not the first time that her past has been clouded in mystery.
Mystery: Glamorous former BBC presenter Reham Khan, who secretly married cricket legend Imran Khan
Earlier this year, she claimed in an interview with a Pakistani journalist that she was a victim of domestic violence during her first marriage, to 54-year-old NHS psychiatrist Dr Ijaz Rehman.
However, this was angrily denied by the doctor, who told me: ‘I reject these allegations strongly.
‘I have never lifted hands on anyone. Domestic violence is a very serious offence.
‘I work in a very senior position in the NHS and if I was convicted or charged or found involved in domestic violence, in any sense, I wouldn’t have been able to practise.’
Imran, 62, who is now a leading politician in Pakistan, has two sons from his nine-year marriage to Jemima, 41, and a daughter from a previous relationship with the late heiress Sita White. Reham has three children from her previous marriage.
She married Imran in a simple ceremony in Islamabad after a whirlwind romance and their wedding was reported to have been met with opposition from some members of his family. Reham was subjected to insults after photos of her in ‘revealing’ clothes and a video of her dancing the tango were posted on the internet in the conservative Islamic country.
