Apr 10: It has become an end of the new innings in the life of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan who has left a saga of cricket and romance behind. It has been a queer mix of contrasting trajectories.
From a fighter in the field of cricket to wear the image of a Casanova from his early days in London. With an angloish facial exterior his personal life had remained studded with his proximity to women in Oxford. He never had stopped at one. He had an air of aristocratic persona and helped him to get along with girl friends.
It was in quick succession of little more than three decades Imran Khan had married three times and in all he had proved it is his self which had mattered the most for him.
Although he first got married at a late age of 42, the London circle freelancer had the same problem with his first wife Jemima Goldsmith. They were married in 1995 and his wife went through a conversion. The age gap was huge yet Jemima had dreams to distancce herself from the western lifestyle and became possessive for him and wanted to live a practical life.
Like few others in his bachelor phase Jemima also realised he was not the person she had dreamt of and they divorced after nine years of roller-coaster married life.
Then came to her a British TV presenter Reham Khan in 2015 but the relationship was very short lived. Meanwhile Reham could gather many things about Imran’ s sexual exploits with many women but she always thought in positive and hoped that, he will come back where she wished him to be. Barely after 10 months Reham divorced him.
It was then when, the much discussed these days, Bushra Bibi entered Imran’s life. Much different than others, Bushra kept herself within the bounds of religious virtuousness and she, it was said, a great influencer in Imran’s life.
A man, Imran, who is said to have relations with many girls, including from the cine-world or Bollywood to be specific, found a different being in Bushra, veiled almost head to toe and induce a sense of purity in the house. It had lot of impacts on Imran, it was said.
Even he had the relationship with a Hollywood women, and in between a stint of affair with a British Painter called Emma Sergeant but that never culminated in marriage as many in his life.
As a crickter nobody can grudge Imran his share of pride being not only charismatic but a man by his sheer hard-work on the field, he became an unmatched captain to hold high the World Cup in 1992, as the champion captain. But this charismatic leader on the field could hardly ever wriggle out the die of an erstwhile Casanova or a playboy.
