JEDDAH: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan took to Twitter Tuesday to respond to claims that he intended to marry faith healer Bushra Maneka.
In a thread of six tweets, Khan lambasted ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Mir Shakil Ur Rehman, the founder of news channel Geo TV, accusing them of running a smear campaign against him.
He tweeted: “For three days I have been wondering have I looted a bank, or money laundered (billions) in (the) nation’s wealth, or ordered a model-town-like killing spree, or revealed state secrets to India? I have done none of these, but discovered I have committed a bigger crime — wanting to get married.
“The vicious, gutter media campaign led by (the) NS (Nawaz Sharif) and MSR (Mir Shakil Ur Rehman) mafia does not bother me as respect and humiliation come from Allah Almighty,” he added.
“However, my concern is for my children and the very conservative family of Bushra begum, all of whom have been subjected to this malicious campaign by NS and MSR,” he wrote.
“NS and MSR can rest assured that their vicious campaign has only strengthened my resolve to fight them all the way. All I ask of my well-wishers and supporters is that they pray I find personal happiness, which, except for a few years, I have been deprived of.”
The 66-year-old politician previously married and divorced two women, socialite Jemima Goldsmith and journalist Reham Khan, the Associated Press reported this week.
Maneka is a divorcee who comes from a conservative family. Khan has in the past approached her for spiritual healing.
Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan tweets about third marriage claims
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Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan tweets about third marriage claims
More than 9,000 flights canceled as major winter storm bears down across much of US
- “Dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills are spreading into the area and will remain in place into Monday,” the agency said on X
DALLAS: More than 9,000 flights across the US set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country threatens to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways.
Roughly 140 million people were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England.
The National Weather Service forecast warns of widespread heavy snow and a band of catastrophic ice stretching from east Texas to North Carolina.
Forecasters say damage, especially in areas pounded by ice, could rival that of a hurricane.
Ice and sleet that hit northern Texas overnight were moving toward the central part of the state on Saturday, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth said.
“Dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills are spreading into the area and will remain in place into Monday,” the agency said on X.
Low temperatures will be mostly in the single digits for the next few nights, with wind chills as low as minus 24 Celsius.
About 68,000 power outages were reported across the country at 8 a.m. ET, about 27,600 of them in Texas. Snow and sleet continued to fall in Oklahoma.
After sweeping through the South, the storm was expected to move into the Northeast, dumping about a foot of snow from Washington through New York and Boston, the weather service predicted.
Temperatures reached minus 34 C just before dawn in rural Lewis County and other parts of upstate New York after days of heavy snow.
Governors in more than a dozen states sounded the alarm about the turbulent weather ahead, declaring emergencies or urging people to stay home.
