Amir Khan’s dad claims his daughter-in-law ‘doesn’t know fact from fiction’ after pregnant assault claims
AMIR Khan's wife has been accused of "telling a pack of lies" by claiming she was slapped by the boxer's sister while pregnant, her fuming father-in-law said today.
Sajjad Khan furiously denied his daughter Tabinda had been aggressive toward's his son's wife claiming "she doesn't know fact from fiction."
Faryal Makhdoom Khan said yesterday that her sister-in-law had grabbed her by the hair and slapped her head while she was eight months pregnant with her daughter, Lamaisah.
But the boxer's dad has branded her "very evil"and accused her of inventing the allegations.
Sajjad also called his daughter-in-law a "bad mother" for leaving her young daughter with her parents in New York to be with her boxer husband at a training camp.
He even added that his former olympian son would "probably" divorce her soon.
As the oxer resumes his training schedule in San Francisco, his father told : "The wife's gone with him and has left their baby girl with the other grandparents in New York.
"What kind of mother is she? That child should be with her parents but it's all about her and no one else."
Faryal, 25, says the Khan family turned against her over her revealing clothes, and the feud exploded in public after they accused her of posting a "naked selfie" online.
She hit back claiming her in-laws "bullied her", tried to split them up and dubbed her "Michael Jackson" in a dig at her appearance after facial fillers.
This week she lifted the lid on the toxic row saying she grew tired of biting her lip while her husband's family - dad Sajjad, mum Falak, brother Haroon and sisters Tabinda and Mariyah - abused her since their marriage in 2013.
She she believed Amir's eldest sister Tabinda was "filling the parents’ heads".
Faryal said: "She was very controlling and I remember her saying once, 'You’re supposed to live with Amir but at any excuse all you do is f*** off to your mum’s in New York.'
"I said, 'You’re the last one to talk. You’re married but you’re always here at your mum’s house.'
"She grabbed my hair and slapped my head. I was eight months’ pregnant. I told Amir but he didn’t believe me because he couldn’t believe me."
Faryal, a Muslim from New York, also claimed the family were "jealous" after Amir chose her as his bride - the first "outsider" not from her father-in-law's tight-knit village in Pakistan.
She says ex-world champ Amir, 30, had been "under his family's influence" with his father running his business interests since he turned pro after winning an Olympic silver medal aged 17.
Two weeks before the wedding she says one of his camp asked her to sign a pre-nuptial agreement and she agreed to show she was not after his money, but Amir later cancelled the contract.
She says Amir's mum has repeatedly tried to make him divorce her, starting when she was three months pregnant.
Amir was "stuck in the middle" but supported her and refused to ditch his bride, she said.
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The row blew up earlier this month when Amir's dad hinted his son will "want out" of his marriage and branded Faryal "crazy".
Sajjad Khan said: "She is trying to come between us, she is trying to break up the very close relationship we have with Amir. She is a very evil woman. All she wants is the limelight.
“He’s tried his best to calm things down but she goes against him. Sooner or later I wouldn’t be surprised if he just wants out. The writing’s on the wall.”
The row between Amir Khan's wife and his parents has torn the family apartHis comments came after she told This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby how she suffered years of abuse at the hands of the Khan family.
Faryal said: "Over the years Amir’s brother and sister went on Twitter rants, went on Instagram rants talking about me saying I don’t get along with them, saying I'm very fake, saying I've done plastic surgery, calling me Michael Jackson – I was a pregnant woman; reading all that was not really nice.
“I used to take it in, I was very, very patient about it – I thought my silence would probably make them stop."
She also apologised to fans after posting a Snapchat pic of Amir's brother Haroon topless and apparent unconscious.
Amir urged his wife and family to end their "childish" feud and said they risked "losing a son and husband".
The strain showed on Amir at a charity event in the US as he vowed to "sort out" the row tearing his family apart.
But then Amir's younger sister Mariyah, 19, claimed Faryal had banned the family from seeing the couple's two-year-old daughter Lamaisah - which Faryal denied.
Student Mariyah appeared to hit out again in another veiled jibe on Instagram last night.
She said: “Biggest lesson learnt this year is probably to not give so much of yourself to people who will not do the same for you.”
Yesterday Faryal's parents said they feared Amir would divorce her amid the spiralling feud.
Mum Zia Makhdoom said: “We have hearts that are broken when we hear such things. We are living in fear that at any moment our daughter will get divorced.”
Amir’s parents have slammed their daughter-in-law's abuse allegations and blamed her for sparking the rift with her style of dress.
Sajjad said: “Faryal was adopting a dress code which in the Islamic faith was not acceptable.
"I am a father to two daughters whom I have treated exactly the same way as I have treated Faryal.
“All this started with the issue of dressing.
"We kept asking Amir to tell her not to adopt such a dress code.
"And even if she had to wear such dresses, please don’t post it on social media."
But the boxer has jumped to his wife’s defence on Twitter: He said: "I have supported my wife and that’s right because she was in the right. Since I’ve been married I’ve seen how my family and siblings have treated her. It wasn’t fair."
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