Shah Rukh Khan’s cousin to contest election in Pakistan

PESHAWAR – King of Bollywood and the epitome of romance in industry, Shah Rukh Khan has as huge fan following across the border as in India. 

Millions of Pakistanis not only love his movies but also follow his styles passionately. But very few of us know that the heartthrob has blood-relatives in Pakistan.

Shah Rukh’s first cousin Noor Jahan made headlines when met SRK on her trip to Mumbai back in 1997 and when Khan SRK thanked him for the gift of ‘Peshawari Chappal’ she brought on the second reunion after a decade in 2011.

Shah Rukh loved those chappals so much that he ordered one of those on Eid last year.

Noor Jahan is a resident of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) capital city Peshawar and has decided to step into politics. She would contest the election in the upcoming general polls and has filed nomination papers from Peshawar’s PK-77 constituency.

Munni is hopeful that Khan will come to Pakistan to congratulate her victory in elections 2018. General Elections in Pakistan are scheduled for July 25, this year.

His grandfather migrated from Kashmir to Peshawar and settled there. Shah Rukh’s father Taj Muhammad graduated from AdWords Medical College Peshawar before moving to Delhi in 1946.

Taj visited Pakistan twice after the separation in 1978 and 1980s. SRK and his sister accompanied on the second trip.