, Bani Gala, Pakistan
Saturday June 18 2022, 6.00pm BST, The Sunday Times
Imran Khan’s living arrangements today are very different from the years when the Pakistani cricket star, known for his swing bowling and smouldering good looks, entertained a string of beautiful women at a Chelsea bachelor pad with tigers painted on the walls.
When I met him last week there was not a female in sight: the thrice-married former sex symbol turned pious born-again Muslim — and Taliban sympathiser — was surrounded instead by a pack of mastiffs and fierce-looking security guards in his hilltop fiefdom outside Islamabad. A pair of antique rifles hung over the fireplace.
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