Bushra Bibi: Who is the faith healer wife of Pakistani ex-PM Imran Khan? - BBC News

Bushra Bibi, who married Khan in 2018, has been given a 14-year prison sentence for corruption.

18 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, The couple, pictured arriving at court in May 2023, married in 2018By Flora DruryBBC NewsThe rumours about Imran Khan's third wife did not take long to start swirling.

For a start, Bushra Maneka - as she was known before her marriage to Pakistan's former cricket captain-turned-politician - was quite different to her two glamorous predecessors. While British socialite Jemima Goldsmith and journalist Reham Khan graced the covers of magazines and television screens, she stayed hidden behind a veil.

In fact, Khan would tell the Mail on Sunday proudly in 2018 that he "did not catch a glimpse of my wife's face until after we were married" - something that he said would have been "unthinkable" back in the 1980s, his heyday on the London nightclub circuit.

It was, he said, Bushra's intellect and character which drew him to her. But that was not what really got people talking - it was, instead, the mystical powers she was credited with.

The woman now known as Bushra Bibi was, in fact, a faith healer with a small following who respected her as a spiritual adviser.

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