PAKISTAN: BRITAIN'S PRINCESS DIANA VISITS CANCER HOSPITAL WITH IMRAN AND JEMIMA KHAN

Record ID: 167899

  • Title: PAKISTAN: BRITAIN'S PRINCESS DIANA VISITS CANCER HOSPITAL WITH IMRAN AND JEMIMA KHAN
  • Date: 21st February 1996
  • Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (FEBRUARY 21-22, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (FEBRUARY 22, 1996) 1. SLV BRITAIN'S PRINCESS DIANA WITH FORMER CRICKET STAR IMRAN KHAN AND HIS WIFE JEMIMA DURING VISIT TO HOSPITAL 0.05 2. SV DIANA VISITS YOUNG GIRL, ELDERLY MAN, WOMAN AND OTHER PATIENTS (3 SHOTS) 0.25 3. SV JEMIMA KHAN ON RIGHT, WITH HER MOTHER LADY GOLDSMITH ON LEFT 0.27 4. SV/CU DIANA TALKING TO DOCTOR AND LOOKING THROUGH MICROSCOPE IN LABORATORY (2 SHOTS) 0.45 (FEBRUARY 21, 1996) 5. SLV NIGHT IMRAN KHAN AND DIANA ARRIVE AT RECEPTION 1.01 6. GV RECEPTION 1.06 7. SV KHAN AND DIANA WALKING 1.10 8. LV DANCERS AT RECEPTION / KHAN, DIANA AND JEMIMA KHAN SITTING AT TABLE (4 SHOTS) 1.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 7th March 1996 12:00
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  • Location: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
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  • Country: Pakistan ASIA
  • Reuters ID: LVA8F5RMCC8GPBSJEWXVYJSWYVPQ
  • Story Text: Britain's Princess Diana left Pakistan for London on Friday (February 23) after a three-day private visit to raise funds for a cancer hospital run by former cricket star Imran Khan.

    Imran, who devoted himself to the hospital project after his mother died of cancer 11 years ago, has dismissed media speculation that he wanted to make political capital out of the princess's visit.

    Some newspapers criticised Diana for making the trip, saying Imran's political ambitions meant she risked becoming embroiled in political controversy.

    Imran, his British wife Jemima and other members of their family, saw off Diana at Lahore airport as she left by a special plane accompanied by Jemima's mother Lady Annabel Goldsmith.

    The former cricketer, who led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup, said this month he would enter politics once he had a viable programme and a team to execute it.

    Imran's criticism of Pakistan's political system as corrupt and iniquitous has annoyed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who is reported to resent his popularity.


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