Did Imran Khan Got Married Again
I've been mulling this over for the terminal couple of days trying to pinpoint the moment it happened. I can't think exactly. Just somewhere betwixt the "I am the saviour of Islamic republic of pakistan" approach and the marriage to a religion healer - the impossible has happened. Imran Khan has lost me.
Imran Khan married his spiritual guru Bushra Maneka on Dominicus, ending weeks of speculation about the union
And oh, what a downfall information technology has been. Is there a woman alive from the Indian sub-continent who grew upwards in the 1980s and 90s and did not take one heck of a crush on Imran Khan? I mean the headspace and wall infinite I devoted to this guy: seriously unreal. The magazines and books I bought about him, the lengthy conversations I had with friends as we obsessed most every little detail nosotros read. And the unshakeable conviction I had that as Imran Khan would run up to bowl ane of his lethal reverse swing deliveries, he would spot me, in a crowd of a mere 50,000 or so (behind the batsman, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans), and the earth would merely - end. (As would the womanising and partying.)
As an bated, I was besides convinced this would happen with Axl Rose. The moment he is nearly to reach height falsetto with "Sweet Kid O' Mine" he spots this Indian girl (again in a crowd of a mere 50,000 or so) and the globe would just - y'all guessed it - stop. (As would the womanising and partying.) What tin I say? I am a product of my time. Anyway, I digress. Back to "the last hope for Pakistan".
Imran Khan'due south 2nd marriage was with Reham Khan, then a TV anchor, which lasted barely 10 months
I mean don't get me incorrect. I'one thousand all about each of us finding our inner Angelina Jolie. I can't fault a super successful sportsman for trying to find meaning in what had been a cricket-obsessed life. The cancer infirmary in memory of a beloved mother. Who can find fault with that? The marriage to a British heiress. A heady combination of love, lust and coin. That is the Imran nosotros know and love. Just and then, the beginning of the end. Politics.
Here's the thing with personal evolution - it has to be, or at least appear, natural - I refer to the afore-mentioned Angelina Jolie or perhaps, closer to habitation, Kamal Haasan. But with Khan - well there'south no other word to describe it - information technology only seems bonkers. A homo at odds with his privilege, with his past, with his now not-so-new-institute spirituality making some very questionable decisions.
Imran Khan had first tied the knot with Jemima Goldsmith in 1995 that ended in divorce afterwards nine years in 2004
Here's the thing - yes, Imran Khan was handsome. Yes, he was sexy. But the most appealing thing nigh him - his unapologetic desire to win - at cricket. In politics - non then successful. Not nonetheless at least. What I can't quite fathom is why? A mid-life crisis peradventure? Maybe. Assertive all the hype virtually yourself? About certainly. How I wish he could have turned to another personal favourite of mine - Shane Warne - and taken a foliage out of his book. Gained weight, lost weight, acquired a perma-tan with a smattering of botox and a British bombshell (Elizabeth Hurley) on his arm - albeit for a limited amount of fourth dimension - but all the while - and this is key - commentating on the game that made him, and reminding the earth what a bang-up bowler he was. I hateful that's all we want him to be pigeon-holed into. Not likewise much to ask for? Instead, he's hit the campaign trail through the length and breadth of Pakistan, talking nigh the corrupt elite, demonising the West and everything it stands for simply unable to articulate with whatever real substance how he is going to change the condition quo.
Imran Khan at a rally in Mianwali, Pakistan (October, 2012)
And hither I interject to make some generalisations about sportsmen, but I'g just going to say information technology - even at the ripe one-time age of 15 or 16, I could have told y'all - Imran Khan, not the sharpest tool in the box. I know, I know he went to Oxford. But cast your heed or the internet back to his heyday and read any of his interviews and you volition come to the same conclusion: obsessed with 2 things - cricket and himself. And that'due south why we adored him. All that "I am a Pathan and I will win at all costs' kind of bravado. At present he professes to be following a Sufi-style of Islam and has married a faith healer Bushra Maneka aka Pinki Pirni who supposedly is going to fast-track him into the Prime Ministership. Aye, really. She had a dream. I told you. Bonkers. And this readers, I'grand agape, is the final harbinger. There. Is. No. Way. Back.
(Arnavaz Vasunia is a Bombay-born writer and digital content specialist now living in London.)
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