When it comes to celebrities, prominent public figures and politicians, matters pertaining to marriage are no longer private; everyone wants to get a piece of that hot pie; the bigger the pie, the better. And Imran’s marriage to Reham has indeed been a hot topic of discussion, with much criticism I must add, as of late.
Much of that disparagement has especially been directed towards Reham, and the fact that Imran chose to marry her, out of all the prospective “chaste” women in the world. The major mudslinging is related to Reham being a divorcee – which is often viewed with much disdain when it comes to re-marrying, usually in the women’s case, because, really, who cares if the man is divorced, right?
They reviled her for wearing short-length dresses and for dancing with strange men in public; they went as far as calling her a ‘lesbian’, intended to be an insult, considering that homosexuality in Pakistan is greatly ostracised. Some vicious trolls even attacked her daughter, branding her a ‘porn star’. And while some of these allegations against Reham may be true, for the most part they are false; they are stories simply created out of detestation in order to defame her, most likely for marrying Imran.
However, despite everything I’ve read thus far about their marriage, the dismaying part about this whole ordeal is that many people – Pakistanis, I must add – are not only willing to believe every single negative assertion against her, but are also willing to disbelieve whatever assertions that Ms Khan herself makes all the while completely disregarding the notion that she could just be telling the truth.
Yesterday, The Express Tribune published a piece in which Ms Khan courageously revealed that she suffered from domestic abuse in her first marriage, which was why she was so hesitant at first to tie the knot with Imran. She further went on to say that the reason she never talked about it was because she didn’t want unnecessary media attention nor to demean her former husband, Dr Ijaz Rehman, at the same time, who happens to be working as a psychiatrist in a very senior position in Britain.
