Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said on Friday that he has apologised to the reporter he had slapped down for asking him a question about Imran Khan.
“I have apologised to the reporter. I became angry when a question of personal nature was hurled at me,” Imran clarified while addressing the media in Islamabad.
“One can be a journalist but first of all, we are humans and should avoid rubbing salt on someone’s wounds when they are in pain,” he added.
However, Imran Khan asked reporters to refrain from asking him questions related to Reham Khan.
“No matter what happened between us, I cannot hear anything about Reham Khan and will not tolerate anyone disparaging her,” the PTI chairman said.
“I will request all of you that this is such a matter that I will not talk about her and I also expect from you that you don’t ask anything about it,” he added.
At a news conference in Peshawar, the reporter had poked Imran Khan on his supposed inability to judge people while selecting his close aides in either political or private life because whoever he selected ditched him in the end.
Imran lost his temper and attacked the journalist “Every society has some form of etiquettes. Every individual has some dignity or some manners,” he said to the reporter.
Imran said the journalist should be ashamed of asking questions about someone’s personal life. “In many households,” he added, “people go through painful trauma. By asking such a question, you have not embarrassed me but rather shown your auqaat (worth).”