LONDON : The former wife of Imran Khan today said his hopes of becomingPakistan prime minister were in tatters after those ‘cringeworthy’ photosof his third wedding.

Reham Khan said the pictures of his new wife covered from head to toe infull veil shows how out of touch the former cricketer is with modernPakistan.

Calling the wedding snaps ‘political suicide’, she told Mail Online: ‘Tohave a woman veiled head to toe, he has alienated a lot of people. It hasnot gone down well, four months before the Pakistan election this ispolitical suicide.’

Mrs Khan, 44, said the former globetrotting playboy cricketer had portrayedhis new wife that way in a PR stunt to shift his image from ‘Soho toSufism.’

‘This kind of veil is uncommon. I don’t want to be rude, I was a bitmiffed. It is cringeworthy.

She said he had virtually ended his career after claiming that he would notmake any decisions without his new wife, faith healer Bushra Wattoo –proving himself to be disconnected with people in Pakistan.

She said she knew her former husband was getting close to divorcedmother-of-five Ms Wattoo during their marriage, but that wasn’t why therelationship ended abruptly in divorce in 2015.

She said the former cricketer had been ‘untruthful’ about the date that hemarried spiritual healer Ms Wattoo, claiming that they tied the knot on NewYear’s Day and only confirmed it last week.