Daily Times

In late 2016, at a family friend’s daughter’s wedding ceremony in London, Imran Khan took to the stage to take a jab at himself on the topic of his marriage, hoping that he “maybe third time lucky”.

The crowd greeted his joke with hoots and cheers amidst a few farsighted hopes that he just might be one step away from finding his one true love.

Fast-forward two years and the official Twitter account of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) broke the news on Sunday, of PTI Chief Imran Khan’s third marriage to Bushra Maneka, his very own spiritual guide.

Was this a pun within a pun intended? We’ll let you decide by yourself.

Also, previously in January this year, senior correspondent with The News, Umar Cheema broke the story that the Nikah was solemnised on January 1, even though PTI denied the report at the time. He continued on to say that the names he mentioned in his story also featured in the pictures issued by the PTI on Sunday, in which close relatives of Bushra Bibi can be seen, along with Imran’s political secretary Aun Chaudhry.

In the meanwhile, Twitter is abuzz with Pakistan’s hot and glamorous all smiles and memes for Imran’s hat-trick of marriages, with a few string of tweets taking a hit at The News correspondent Umar Cheema – a few in favour of him and a few making a plain old simple joke out of the entire fiasco.

Though it started with a hat, it was followed by a dupatta, and now it might just be a total wrap!

All this business aside, we’re still all ears to hear from Jemima, Khan’s first wife and ‘first lady’ who has always lent her public and overwhelming support to her ex-husband, while the two have always chosen to remain close friends through thick and thin.