Pakistan's chief decision maker, Imran Khan did cocaine

Pakistan's Imran Khan did cocaine and claims to have Indian children, ex-wife Reham says

Reham Khan's eponymous tell-all memoir was published this week

IndiaToday,
13 July, 2018

• Reham Khan's eponymous tell-all memoir was published this week
  
• Book makes startling claims about former cricket star
  
• Imran Khan's party is a major contender in the upcoming general elections in Pakistan
  

Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician, did cocaine, pleasured himself to "images of male bodies" while married, and claimed he had five illegitimate children, including Indians -- or at least, that's what one of his ex-wives is saying.

Reham Khan's eponymous tell-all memoir was published this week. When a manuscript of the book was leaked online, several leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) -- which Imran leads -- accused Reham of being part of an"agenda" ahead of this month's polls. A Dawn newspaper article notes that her book's timing "will always be questioned. After all, its election time."

Imran Khan has been married three times. His first marriage in 1995, with Jemima Goldsmith, lasted nine years. They have two sons. Imran's marriage to Reham Khan, a former TV anchor, lasted 10 months. And this year, he married Bushra Maneka, his spiritual advisor.

Kamran Khan, the editor-in-chief of the Dunya Media Group, said the details in Reham's "365-page" book were "vivid" and "mind-boggling", and said the PTI should sue her "ASAP". Reham's response: "It's 563 pages not 365 pages. You are clearly reading an edited pirated version. Please pay for the original book with your rather hefty salary."

So what exactly does the book claim about the man who wants to succeed Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Pakistan's prime minister? Read on to find out.

'FIVE THAT I KNOW OF'

Reham Khan says that early in her marriage with Imran, when they were talking about Tyrian White (who she claims is "universally accepted as Imran's love child"), the former cricket star said, "You know she isn't the only one I have....There are five in total, that I know of."

He said the mothers informed him, Reham claims. "Some are Indians. The eldest is 34 now," she quotes him as saying.

Imran, she adds, said one of the mothers "had been married for ages and couldn't get pregnant. She was overjoyed, promised to keep it a secret, and begged to keep it. So I said OK."

When she asked about the others, Reham claims, Imran said they never spoke up because they were married and "didn't want their marriages to be destroyed" -- and that Jemima Goldsmith knew about the children.

'COCAINE'

Reham writes that "Imran would frequently say that I shouldn't worry about his addiction because he needed a partner to do the drug...Whenever I would find traces and look disappointed, or panic about his health, he would gently say, "Baby, what do you know about drugs? You haven't done it. A line of coke [cocaine] is just like half a glass of wine"."

"The line was repeated often and was each time received with the same rolling of the eyes."

She says Khan's cousin once "delivered the banned drug Rohypnol right in front of me (also known to me as the date-rape drug). What I did not know was that the drug was not used as an aid to sleep, but as a way of assisting the comedown after the last line of coke. It helped prevent the jaw-clenching, and calm a person down so that they may get some sleep."

She later adds: "I became accustomed to checking his yellow cylindrical pill container several times a day to see what he was taking. The typical day's cocktail would generally consist of half an ecstasy tablet and one or two lumps of coke, followed by two to three sedatives at night."

'HIS 'PREFERENCES' BECAME CLEAR'

Reham recounts how a friend of hers didn't realise she was married to a gay man, thinking instead that she wasn't good-looking. "I missed a lot of similar signs during my marriage," she writes.

What were these "signs"? Reham says Imran "would quickly notice and appreciate attractive men", claims she was "disturbed" by the manner in which he "spoke fondly of Saqlain Mushtaq, the Pakistani spinner known for his cute boyish smile", and speaks of his "affection" for a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker. There was also, she says, the "long-term, live-in relationship" with one Moby, whom Imran would "refer to...as a wife".

Once, she says, "while cleaning the bottom-left drawer of my husband's side table, I found empty cigar cases and huge tubes of KY jelly [a lubricant used during sex]. When I asked what they were for, Imran explained that the lubricant and the metal cases were used together. His 'preference' became clear."

She narrates how "it was embarrassing to walk into the bedroom of a husband who was pleasuring himself to images of male bodies while his wife was busy cooking in the kitchen". Imran's explanation, she says, was that he "was seriously thinking of having surgical enhancement as he felt he could do with another two inches".

Reham also claims she saw sexually explicit text messages from two women PTI leaders, Andaleeb Abbas and Uzma Kardar, on her husband's phone.

"He told me that Andaleeb was an alcoholic. Supposedly, she would hit the bottle at that time of the night, and it meant nothing. "Baby, please don't make an issue and come back to bed," he said casually, and rolled back to sleep."

Uzma Kardar, Reham says, "was not only in the habit of regularly sending him [Imran] images of her genitalia but would force her way to stand or sit next to him, even in my presence".

The West's hostility towards Imran Khan

'Western' Press Dislikes Imran Khan's Win In Pakistan's Election

Moon of Alabama,

27 July, 2018

Imran Khan election win in Pakistan receives a hostile reaction in U.S. and British media. The headlines are generally negative and the descriptions of Imran cast a damning light of him.

From the New York Times print edition front page:

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The word "Pakistan" was probably too long for the valuable front-page space. Thus the NYTshortened it to "Nuclear-Armed Islamic Republic". The attribute "unpredictable" for Imran Khan is curious. (If one cuts out the "Islamic" the headline fits to Trump's election victory. Was that the intended joke?)

The piece by Jeffrey Gettleman repeats the "unpredictable" claim:

Friends and foes describe Mr. Khan, 65, as relentless, charming, swaggering and highly unpredictable.

But there is no evidence, not one example in the piece that supports that attribute. It describes how he, in the late 90s, entered politics:

Mr. Khan seized on a single issue: governance. ... He focused on corruption, repeatedly stating that a few political dynasties had shamelessly enriched themselves. ... [H]e seemed adept at not letting the gossip pages distract him, and he kept hammering on about corruption.

Corruption was also a main theme of his recent campaign. Imran's anti-corruption position has been a constant. His opposition to the U.S. war of terror also never changed. There is not one "unpredictable" bit in his political positions. Where then did that come from? Only in the very last paragraph that word returns:

Many analysts wonder how long Mr. Khan’s friendship with the military will last.

“He is known to have erratic behavior and a very unpredictable personality,” said Taha Siddiqui, a journalist and critic of the military who recently moved to France, saying he feared for his safety.

Siddiqui worked for an Indian TV channel and for France24. He has long been critical of Pakistan's military. In January he claimed that "he was attacked by up to a dozen men en route to the airport in Rawalpindi but managed to escape". He clearly dislikes that Imran Khan has good relations with Pakistan's military.  Why is that enough to make it in into a headline?

The London Times takes up the theme in this cartoon:

It's a cheap point. During the last 50 years there never was a prime minister of Pakistan who could act against the will of the powerful military. If the Bhutto clan and its PPP party or the Nawaz clan with PML-N had won the election their candidates would have had similar restrictions on foreign policy than Imran Khan will have.

The losing candidates will protest against the election results. They assert fraud but have yet to give examples for such.

The EU Election Observer Mission published its preliminary report. It lists some minor issues but seems satisfied. It reports no election fraud. It's most serious complain is the "uneven playing field". Via Dawn:

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, EU Chief Observer Michael Gahler [...] said, “Despite positive changes to the legal framework with the new Elections Act, and a stronger and more transparent Election Commission, we consider that the electoral process of 2018 was negatively affected by the political environment.”

“Candidates with large political appeal and financial means, the so-called “electables” were reported to often dominate the campaign. Uneven rules on campaign spending further undermined candidates’ equal opportunity,” the EU EOM observed.

Rich candidates spend more than poor ones and have a higher chance of winning elections. That is unfair. Have we ever heard of any other 'democracy' with a similar problem?