Long-term partnership, not instant sixes, matters, says Reham

MANCHESTER: Reham Khan, former wife of PTI leader Imran Khan, has said, “You may hit sixes but what really matters in real life is whether you can sustain a long-term partnership and complete a century.”
Reham expressed these veiled views while speaking at a media conference, her first after parting ways with Imran Khan.One can’t help but look at Reham Khan’s statement in the context of her relationship with the former cricket skipper. She also highlighted the problems being faced by journalists in Pakistan.
Referring to working women, she said women play an important role in a society and they must be accorded due respect. “Women are insecure in Pakistan and subjecting women to mudslinging is highly inappropriate,” she added.
“You will have to respect women, if you want to bring about change,” Reham said. She said no one should discuss someone’s private life in public.She left Pakistan for the UK after the couple filed for divorce. Speaking about the state of media in Pakistan, she lamented that laziness was a problem Pakistanis needed to grapple with, particularly in the fields of media and journalism despite the abundance of talent and the industry’s rich history.She raised the point that Pakistani media did not follow important issues as big news barely survived a day before being swept aside. She complained that the media also focused on negativity, sidelining positive news.
She tweeted: “When a society loses a sense of decency it can only sink further into decline.” Later, she complained about being taken out of context by the media in another tweet: “Shameful that I talk directly to journalists advising an ethical approach in reporting & my comments are reported out of context.”