Reham Khan is a former BBC journalist who has now married politician Imran Khan. (Image courtesy: www.rehamkhanofficial.com)
Pakistani cricketer turned politician Imran Khan married TV journalist Reham Khan in a secret ceremony last month. After first denying reports of their marriage, Mr Khan has now admitted to marrying Reham amid a storm in his country over his wedding.
Here are 10 things to know about Reham Khan:
Reham Khan, 41, works with Dawn News, a Pakistan-based private news channel. She is a current affairs anchor with the channel and hosts the show In Focus.
Born in Libya to Pakistani parents, Reham, was educated mostly in Britain.
Ms Khan began her career as a weather forecaster at BBC. She later also worked with the BBC as a broadcast journalist. She has also been a breakfast news presenter with Sunshine Radio Hereford & Worcester in UK.
In 2013, Reham Khan moved back to Pakistan and joined the Pakistani news channel News One to cover the Pakistan elections.
Ms Khan has been married to psychologist Ijaz Rehman earlier. She has three children with him - Sahir, Ridha and Inaya.
Reham has a Bachelors degree in Education and pursued her Masters in Sociology. She later switched to a course in journalism and says that she paid for it by moonlighting as a TV projector for Legal TV for two hours a day.
On her website she describes herself as journalist, anchor, fighter.
Very fond of travelling, she says she is "very free-spirited." In her profile on BBC South Today, she said, "I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!"
Attacked and villified on social media ever since news of her marriage to Imran Khan became public, Ms Khan recently deleted her Facebook account. She has 89,700 followers on Twitter.
Imran's sister Aleema has reportedly refused to meet his new wife, after saying in an interview that he denied his marriage when the the family asked him about it.
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