New Delhi: Jemima Goldsmith, producer, journalist and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s former wife, just cannot do a simple Q&A on Twitter. When she asked a question about a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song on Twitter on Tuesday, there were so many loaded answers that she had to eventually delete her tweet. It would have been simpler for her to just search the meaning of the lyrics on Google instead.
It’s been 17 years since Jemima Goldsmith’s marriage to Imran Khan ended in divorce.
But many Pakistanis are still married to the idea of Khan and Goldsmith being together, and often address her as ‘Bhabhi’ on social media. Several users on Pakistani Twitter continued to link her to the PM on Tuesday when she tweeted a request.
“Can anyone please tell me how I can find an English translation of the lyrics to the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s song, Athra Ishq Ni Saon Denda?” Goldsmith asked her followers on the social media platform.
Instead of providing a link to the translation of the late singer’s work, many followers took this as an opportunity to harass Goldsmith and banter with her.
One Asad Ullah Siddiqui, for example, tagged PM Khan and asked him to “help her” while user Dilmirza posted a picture of Goldsmith with Khan and said that their marriage had everything except “infidelity”.
@ImranKhanPTI help her
— Asad Ullah Siddiqui (@A_Siddiqui1) August 10, 2021
There were enmities, there was neglect, there were resentments The calf had everything, not infidelity ………………….? pic.twitter.com/exRfaNYmJv
— Dilmirza (@Dilmirza2) August 10, 2021
Imran Muhammad took it upon himself to tweet a 26-second slideshow of Goldsmith’s marriage to PM Khan in response to her tweet.
In the response of the question of @Jemima_Khan . ? pic.twitter.com/eyKXL36CTL
— Imran_Muhammad (@MannMuhammad) August 10, 2021
Muhammad Mujahid, on the other hand, simply posted a photo of PM Khan and said, “This dangerous love does not let me sleep. It’s makes me awake all the night [sic].”
This dangerous love does not let me sleep.
It's makes me awake all the night pic.twitter.com/NAJHMUjclQ
— Muhammad Mujahid (@MujahidAkram786) August 10, 2021
Another user also directed her to contact her ex-husband because he had claimed “to have introduced the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan” and “taught him the basics of music and poetry”.
Your ex – husband claims to have introduced the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Not only that but also taught Him the basics of music and poetry. Better refer this question to Him through Khawar Maneka, the present go – between@Ali_MurtazaHash @qamarz1964 @Engr_Naveed111 pic.twitter.com/edHelaJOlM
— HussainIshtiaq67890 (@ishtiaq67890) August 10, 2021
As a result of these unhelpful responses, Jemima Goldsmith eventually deleted her tweet.
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Goldsmith’s eventful career
While certain Twitter users primarily seem to associate her with her past marriage with PM Khan, Jemima Goldsmith is a film producer, having been involved in the making of several documentaries such as The Case Against Adnan Syed.
She is also co-producing the third season of the anthology television series American Crime Story, which is scheduled for release next month.
Previously, Goldsmith had begun working as an Associate Editor of New Statesman in November 2011 and was also the European Editor at Large at Vanity Fair.
She had married Imran Khan in 1995 and took his surname, three years after he had led Pakistan to victory at the 1992 Men’s Cricket World Cup and retired from the sport.
They divorced in 2004, when the BBC reported Khan as saying that Jemima faced difficulties in “adapting” to life in Pakistan due to his political career.
Jemima kept the Khan surname for several years, before reverting to Goldsmith, her maiden name, in 2011. However, her Twitter handle remains @Jemima_Khan.
(Edited by Prashant Dixit)