Imran Khan

Imran Khan comes to mind when we discuss justice and humanization. However,  He is a social worker, politician, and former cricketer. He is the current chairman of Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI). This biography is written in particular for his young fans who enjoy reading every chapter of his life.

Imran Khan\’s introduction (PTI)

Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician who is the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), a legislator, former cricketer, and humanitarian who is the driving force behind the Pakistan Movement for Justice and a member of Pakistan\’s National Assembly. He played international cricket for twenty years before entering politics. At the age of 13, he began playing cricket. Alhrought, He made his debut for Pakistan at the age of 18 during the 1971 English series in Birmingham. First for his school and then for Worcestershire Cricket Club. He joined Pakistan\’s national cricket team in 1976 after finishing his studies at Oxford and played till 1992. From 1982–to 1992, he also served as the team\’s alternate captain. He led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup, which was the country\’s sole victory in the series.

He was one of Pakistan\’s most successful cricketers when he retired in 1992. In Test cricket, he scored 3,807 runs and grabbed 362 wickets. He is one of just eight cricketers to achieve the \’All-Triple\’ rounder\’s in Test matches.  2010, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. In 1991, he spearheaded a fundraising campaign to establish a cancer hospital honouring his mother. 1994, he raised $25 million to build Lahore\’s first hospital. In the year 2015, he opened a new hospital in Peshawar. Imran Khan is a well-known humanitarian and commentator who served as the president of Bradford University from 2005 to 2014. In 2012, the Royal College of Physicians awarded him a nominal partnership.

He founded the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), a moderate political party, in April 1996 and served as its state leader. Imran Khan campaigned for the National Assembly in October 2002 and served as a member of the opposition from Mianwali to 2007. In the 2013 elections, he was re-electe to parliament, and his party rose to second place in the republic\’s general election. He currently serves as the party\’s government spearhead, overseeing the third-largest bloc of members of parliament in the National Assembly since 2013. Furthermore, according to the World Bank, his political party leads an organisation that has had the greatest improvement in human advancement among Pakistani zones.

Personal Life

Imran Khan was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, on October 5, 1952. He comes from a Pashtun family. Ikramullah Khan Niazi, his father, was a civil engineer. Shaukat Khanum was his mother\’s name. He was his parents\’ only child. They lived in Mianwali, in northwestern Punjab, for a long period. His father\’s family is of Pashtun descent and belongs to the Niazi community. However, His mother, along with his cousins Javed Burki and Majid Khan, was from the Pashtun ethnic group of Burki, which had produced a few successful cricketers in Pakistan\’s past.

He is also a descendant of Pir Roshan, the Sufi poet and creator of the Pashto script from his mother\’s side. They inherited Kaniguram city in South Waziristan, in the clannish zones of northwest Pakistan, from his maternal line. However, Imran Khan was a quiet and shy young man in his early years. His four sisters are Rubina Khanum, Aleema Khanum, Uzma Khanum, and Rani Khanum. Rubina Khanum, his older sister, is a former Lahore School of Economics student who work for the United Nations in a top position. Aleema Khanum is a businesswoman and humanitarian who founded CotCom Sourcing (Pvt.) Ltd, a material sourcing firm situated in Lahore.

In 1989, she earned her MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences. Her fabric business has helped textile stores and managers worldwide, and she maintains iconic offices in Karachi and New York. Aleema worked as the marketing director for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust and contributed to the hospital\’s fundraising efforts. However, She is a member of the hospital\’s board of governors. Rani Khanum is a university alumna who arranges charitable events, whereas Uzma Khanum is a talented doctor in Lahore.

Imran Khan resides in his Bani Gala farmhouse. He had an emergency procedure in November 2009 at Lahore\’s Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital to remove an obstruction in his small intestine.

Education

His family was well-off; thus, he had an advantaged education. He attended Lahore\’s Aitchison College and the Royal Grammar School in Worcester, England, where he excelled at cricket. In 1972, he enrolled at Oxford\’s Keble College. He graduated in 1975 after studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics there.

Married Life

Imran Khan married Jemima Goldsmith in a ceremony held in Urdu in Paris on May 16, 1995. They remarried at the Richmond registrar office in England after a month, on June 21. Jemima became an Islamic convert. Sulaiman Isa and Kasim are the couple\’s two children.

Rumours circulated that the couple\’s marriage was in trouble. Jemima issued a statement in Pakistani media denying the allegations. However, on June 22, 2004, it was announced that the couple had separated, ending their relationship in divorce due to Jemima\’s difficulty adjusting to life in Pakistan. Imran Khan is also said to have a daughter, according to reports.

Imran Khan married Reham Khan, a British Pakistani press worker, in a private Nikah ceremony at his home in Islamabad in January 2015. However, this marriage did not work out, and they announced their intention to split on October 22, 2015.

Imran Khan suggested Bushra Manika as his spiritual advisor in 2018, which sparked debate. Since then, prominent journalists and residents have been debating the issue on social media.

Imran has also been chastised for marrying for the third time. Ayesha Gulalai did not spare him. Imaan Mazari, Shireen Mazari\’s daughter, resorted to Twitter to express her feelings.

Pakistanis, notably journalist Rabia Anum, have questioned the validity of all the criticism levelled at the PTI leader.

Imran Khan married Bushra Manika officially on February 18, 2018, after finally ending his matrimonial relationship with his spiritual advisor.

Cricket Career

He took over as captain of the Pakistan cricket team from Javed Miandad in 1982, at the height of his career. He captained the team for 48 Test matches. Pakistan won 14 games, lost 8, and drew the remaining 26 games during his captaincy. He also played 139 One-Day Internationals, winning 77, losing 57, and drawing one.

He led the squad to its first Test victory on English soil in 28 years at Lord\’s in the squad\’s second game. His first year as captain was the pinnacle of his success as a fast bowler and all-rounder. In 1981–1982, he had his best Test bowling performance, capturing 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka in Lahore.

In the three-Test series against England in 1982, he also beat the bowling and batting averages. Later that year, he produced a highly praised performance in a home series against the difficult Indian squad, taking 40 wickets at an average of 13.95 in six Tests.

He had taken 88 wickets in 13 Test matches throughout his year as captain by the end of the series in 1982 and 1983. However, this same Test series against India resulted in a break in the front of the leg below the knee, which forced him to retire from cricket for more than two years. By the end of 1984, he had improved thanks to rehabilitation backed by the Pakistani government, and he made a successful return to international cricket in the last months of 1984 and 1985.

He guided Pakistan to its first historic test series victory in India in 1987. Ffollowed by Pakistan\’s first series success in England later that year. In the 1980s, his squad drew three magnificent ties against the West Indies. Pakistan and India co-hosted the 1987 World Cup. However, neither country agreed to play beyond the semi-finals.

After the World Cup, Imran Khan was released from international cricket. General Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan\’s prime minister, asked him to return to the captaincy in 1988, and on January 18, he expressed his intention to do so.

He led Pakistan to a fresh triumphant visit to the West Indies not long after resuming leadership, which he termed \”the last time I bowled fine.\” He was named Man of the Series against the West Indies in 1988 after taking 23 wickets in three tests. As a captain and cricketer, he reached the pinnacle of his career when he led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. ALthrough, He promoted himself as a batter to function in the top echelon alongside Javed Miandad, but his role as a bowler was negligible. He took the winning last wicket himself at the age of 39. Under the guidance of Imran Khan, Pakistan won its first World Cup Trophy in 1992, which was noteworthy.

Politics

Imran Khan founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a political party, in 1996. (PTI). He supported General Pervez Musharraf\’s martial revolution in 1999, believing that Musharraf would put an end to exploitation and fraud while also cleaning up the governmental gangs. According to Imran Khan, Musharraf preferred him for Prime Minister in 2002, but he declined the offer.

Imran Khan projected in the Pakistan general elections in October 2002 through 272 electorates and was willing to form a coalition if his party did not win a majority of the vote. From Mianwali, he was chosen. He\’s also been a Kashmir and Public Accounts Standing Committee member.

On April 21, 2013, Khan launched his final campaign for the 2013 elections from The Mall in Lahore, where he greeted a big crowd of supporters. He stated that he would pull Pakistan out of the US-led conflict based on fear and bring peace to the Pashtun ethnic region. At several public gatherings in Malakand, Lower Dir District, Upper Dir District, and other towns across Pakistan, he stated that the PTI would implement a consistent schooling system in which the wealthy and the poor children would have equal opportunities and rights. He marched through Bahawalpur, Khanpur, Sadiqabad, Rahim Yar Khan, and Rajanpur to close his south Punjab movement. In Pakistan, the PTI is see as a liberal party, but a recent remark by Imran Khan about the liberal community has raised doubts.

According to The Herald\’s most recent polling before the elections, 24.98 percent of his fans across the country planned to vote for his party, only a bit behind former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N). Imran Khan was rushed to Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore on May 7, 2013, after stumbling from a forklift near the stage and collapsing head over heels.

Pakistan\’s 2013 elections were held on May 11, 2013. The Pakistan Muslim League received a large majority of votes in the elections. Imran Khan\’s PTI won 30 governmental seats in a direct poll.

PML-N and the Sharifs are Imran Khan\’s main opponents. However, The PTI and the PML-N continue to debate, and their followers continue to rally behind them. Maryam Nawaz Sharif has continued to criticise Imran, most recently attacking him with his supposed daughter.

Imran Khan was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan for the 22nd time in 2018. Because of his NAYA PAKISTAN MOVEMENT, promises, and new projects, he has been scrutinised by journalists, news stations, and other politicians.

Benevolence

He also served as UNICEF\’s Special Representative for Sports in the 1990s, where he expanded health and immunisation initiatives in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Imran also works with the Lord\’s Taverners, London-based cricket philanthropy. He focused all of his efforts on societal causes. In 1991, he established the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charitable organisation named after his mother, Mrs Shaukat Khanum. Imran Khan established Pakistan\’s first and only cancer hospital, which he founded with gifts and assets totalling more than $25 million worldwide. He established Namal College, a technical institution in the Mianwali region, on April 27, 2008. It was created by the Mianwali Development Trust (MDT) and became a University of Bradford associate institution in December 2005. The people of Pakistan have hailed Imran Khan for his tremendous philanthropic activities.

The Imran Khan Foundation is another beneficiary organisation that aims to help underprivileged people around Pakistan. It has assisted flood victims in Pakistan. Under the plan \’Lighting a Million Lives,\’ the Buksh Foundation partnered with the Imran Khan Foundation to brighten up Dera Ghazi Khan, Mianwali, and Dera Ismail Khan towns. The campaign will set up Solar Charging Stations in specific communities and provide inhabitants with solar lights that can be charged repeatedly at the solar charging stations.

Writing Works

Imran Khan has published six works of factual and instructive literature and a life tale co-authored with Patrick Murphy. He regularly writes cricket and Pakistani politics commentary and articles for several prominent Pakistani and British newspapers.

Premiership

Khan faced a growing balance-of-payments crisis as Prime Minister. Despite the fact that the economy was growing, imports and debt commitments have risen in recent years. Owing in part to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) plan. The crisis intensified just weeks after he took office when the US withheld $300 million in pledged military help. Claiming Pakistan had not done enough to combat terrorism. Because a dozen prior IMF bailout packages had failed to alleviate Pakistan\’s macroeconomic issues. Khan attempted to seek foreign aid from \”friendly countries\” first; his avoidance of an IMF bailout reflected widespread fatigue with the IMF. Pakistan requested emergency loans from the IMF after failing to secure foreign aid on favourable terms from other countries. He continued to seek international assistance from other sources, eventually receiving investment guarantees from China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Khan oversaw several key improvements in Pakistan\’s diplomatic relations, in addition to pursuing foreign aid. The country was successful in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table with the US, which improved relations between the two countries. India launched an airstrike on Pakistan for the first time in five decades in February 2019, in a show of force against militants in Kashmir who had recently staged a suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian security officers, stoking worries of a new conflict between the two countries. Pakistan appeared to downplay the impact and avoid aggravating the issue. When India cross Pakistani airspace again, Pakistan fired down two fighter jets and kidnapped a pilot. However,  But the pilot was quickly restored to India. Khan responded by arresting militants, closing a huge number of religious schools. And promising to reform existing regulations to match international norms in the aftermath of the disaster.

The COVID-19 epidemic, which started in early 2020, worsened the country\’s economic problems. In comparison to his critics, Khan was hesitant to support a lockdown. In March, the provincial government in Sindh, which is governed by an opposition party, imposed a stringent lockdown. April, Khan declared a statewide lockdown; in May, his government began limiting lockdowns to areas with high infection rates.

Meanwhile, Khan faced criticism for his tight ties to the military establishment, his crackdown on terrorists, and the country\’s precarious economic situation. However, The People\’s Democratic Movement (PDM), a coalition of main opposition groups. Was create in late 2020 with the declared purpose of boosting civilian government independence from the military establishment. PDM-organized protests and demonstrations accused Khan of being a puppet of the army and demanded that he resign.

These parties boycotted a vote of confidence called by Khan\’s government in March 2021. which he narrowly won with the help of his coalition allies. Khan broke out with the military establishment later that year after a failed attempt to influence high military positions. As anger over high inflation grew, the opposition called for a vote of confidence in March 2022; major PTI partners resigned from the government coalition, and numerous members of the party defected. However, The vote was held, and on April 10, Khan became Pakistan\’s first prime minister to be depose by a no-confidence motion.

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