Further Involvement
Khan continues to support various charity efforts in Pakistan mostly from her organization, the Jemima Khan Foundation. She also supports the Soil Association, and the HOPING foundation for Palestinian refugee children. In 2008, she modeled the relaunched Azzaro Couture fragrance and was a guest co-designer of a Spring 2009 collection for Azzaro, with her fee reportedly donated to UNICEF.
In addition to charities, Khan also campaigns for various social and political causes. In 2007, she set up the Free Pakistan Movement, where she, her family and friends, and hundreds of protestors participated in three demonstrations outside Downing Street to protest the state of emergency in Pakistan, during which her ex-husband was incarcerated. In 2008, she received death threats from Islamic fundamentalists for supporting and speaking at the launch of Quilliam Foundation, a London-based think tank that focuses on "counter-extremism", including preaching religious tolerance. With John Pilger and Ken Loach, she was among the six people in Westminster Magistrates Court willing to post bail for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010. However, she later changed her mind about Assange. The bail money was lost in June 2012 when a judge ordered it to be forfeited, as Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the London embassy of Ecuador.
She has campaigned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for freedom of information, attending Assange’s extradition hearings and speaking at the Stop the War Coalition's rally in defence of Wikileaks alongside Tony Benn and Tariq Ali. In 2011, she also campaigned against the use of drones by the CIA in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
In 2002, Khan was listed at number 18 with £20m on the Evening Standard's Millionaires list. In 2010, she purchased the country house of Kiddington Hall near Woodstock in Oxfordshire for a reported £15 million.
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