Controversy surrounds Imran Khan's wedding date

ISLAMABAD: According to Mufti Saeed, the cleric who read the Nikkah for Imran Khan and Reham Khan, the PTI chief and the television journalist were married on October 31, 2014, (Muharram 7), not in January 2015 as earlier claimed. 

Imran and Reham announced their marriage in January 2015, a few days before the cricketer-turned-politician ended his anti-government sit-in protest in Islamabad. However, a couple of days ago Reham Khan spoke to Geo News and said that she candidly asked Imran for a gift for the first wedding anniversary, but he gave her divorce instead.  

"He divorced me as a gift for the wedding anniversary," she claimed.

Mufti Saeed caused a stir when he revealed that Imran Khan and Reham got married on October 31, 2014 and not in January 2015. It is important to mention here that Mufti Saeed had earlier claimed that Imran and Reham were married in January 2015.  The couple's marriage had ended On October 31, 2015 when Imran announced by a tweet that he had divorced Reham. The marriage ended in under a year. 

'Imran asked me to keep nikkah secret'

Reham Khan said that Imran Khan had asked her to keep their nikkah a secret.  According to Reham, she was asked to keep the nikkah a secret so Imran Khan's sister couldn't sabotage it.

According to Reham, she was asked to remain silent about the affair following the nikkah.