Reham Khan, the former wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, has criticised the negative propaganda and social media campaign over her separation with Imran saying that divorce is though social issue but divorcees are not criminals. Reham said that she and her family have been the victims of a smear campaign ever since her marriage and eventual divorce with the popular Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician.
In an interview with BBC on Thursday, Reham Khan said, "My innocent children, they had nothing to do with this, and people have taken liberty to talk about them. There is a smear campaign, there is social media attacking them." She further said, "This has been happening for over ten months. This was happening during the marriage as well, and we watched it silently because I was in a position where it was very difficult to then engage in a war of words."
Reham said that despite the fact that "two people are involved in a relationship", it is easy for our society to malign the woman. "When a woman gets divorced, I think it's very easy for a community to jump on a bandwagon and demonise her but the woman doesn't have to be a criminal to be going through a divorce.