IMRAN
KHAN
Niazi Imran Ahmed Khan The
22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan, born 5 October 1952), was removed from office
by a vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly in April 2022. He is a
former cricket captain and politician from Pakistan. He is the leader of
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and its founder (PTI).
Khan was raised in a wealthy
Pashtun family and received his education at prestigious institutions in
Pakistan and the UK, including the Royal Grammar School in Worcester and
Aitchison College in Lahore. Khan was born in Lahore. His older relatives Javed
Burki and Majid Khan, who both held the position of captain of the Pakistani
national team, were great cricket players. Imran Khan began playing cricket in
his teens in Pakistan and the UK and kept playing while attending the
University of Oxford to study philosophy, politics, and economics. Khan
participated in his first international game for Pakistan in 1971, but he did
not gain a regular position on the squad until the year after he graduated from
Oxford, in 1976.
Khan became the captain of the
Pakistani squad in 1982 after establishing himself as a superb bowler and
all-around player by the early 1980s. Khan became well-known in Pakistan and
England thanks to his athletic prowess and attractive appearance, and the
British tabloid press used his frequent appearances in upscale London
nightclubs as material. Khan's biggest sporting accomplishment came in 1992,
when he helped Pakistan win its first World Cup title by defeating England in
the championship game. He made history as one of the best cricket players when
he retired the same year.
Khan continued to be known as
a philanthropist after 1992. He had a spiritual transformation that led him to
embrace Sufi mysticism and let go of his previous playboy persona. Khan served
as the main fund-raiser for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, a
specialty cancer hospital in Lahore, which opened in 1994, as part of his
charitable work. Khan's mother, who passed away from cancer in 1985, inspired the
naming of the hospital.
Khan became been an outspoken
opponent of Pakistan's corrupt politics after he retired from cricket. In 1996,
he established Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, often known as the Pakistan Justice
Movement (PTI). The newly founded party performed marginally better in the 2002
elections, taking home one National Assembly seat that Khan occupied, but it
still received fewer than 1% of the vote in the national elections conducted
the following year.
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