Imran Khan Biography: The 22nd and current Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is a cricketer turned politician. He is also the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Imran Khan before entering into politics, Khan was an International Cricketer and Captain of the Pakistan Cricket Team which he led to Pakistan's victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
Imran Khan: Birth and Family
Imran Khan: Education
Imran Khan received his earlier education at Aitchison College and Cathedral School in Lahore then the Royal Grammar School in Worcester and excelled in cricket. within the year 1972, he got himself enrolled in Keble College, Oxford and graduated in 1975 in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Imran Khan: Cricket Career
Imran Khan started playing cricket at the age of 13 and made his first-class cricket debut at the age of 16 in Lahore. From 1970-71, he started playing for his home teams-- Lahore A, Lahore B, Lahore Greens, and Lahore.
At the age of 18, Imran Khan made his debut for the Pakistan National Cricket Team and played against England in 1971 at Edgbaston.
In a fast bowling contest at Perth within the year 1978, he came third bowling at 139.7 km/h leaving Dennis Lillee, Garth Le Roux, and Andy Roberts while Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding were still before Khan.
Imran Khan played his last match game in January 1992 against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Khan retired from cricket after Pakistan's historic win in the 1992 World Cup final against England in Melbourne Australia.
In 1982, Imran Khan succeeded Javed Miandad becoming the captain of the Pakistan cricket team. Imran Khan played 48 Test matches (Pakistan won 14, lost 8 and 26 were drawn), and 139 ODI's (Pakistan won 77, lost 57 and just one match was drawn) as a captain.
Imran Khan: Political Career
Imran Khan was offered the political positions during his cricket career-- the then President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq offered him a political position in Pakistan Muslim League (PML), former Prime Miniter of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif also invited him to hitch his party, which he declined.
In 1994, Khan joined a gaggle led by the previous ISI ( Inter-Services Intelligence) chief Hamid Gul and Muhammad Ali Durrani who was head of Pasban, a breakaway youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan.
On April 25, 1996, Imran Khan founded his own party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and contested elections for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 1997 Pakistani election as a candidate of PTI. He contested over two constituencies but lost the election.
Imran Khan supported General Pervez Musharraf's military coup in 1999 and believed that he will end corruption. In 2002, he was also offered the Prime Ministerial post by General Musharraf but turned down the offer.
On October 2, 2007, Khan joined 85 other MPs to resign from the Parliament protesting the presidential election which General Musharraf was contesting without resigning as Army Chief. After General Musharraf declared an emergency in Pakistan, Khan was anesthetized confinement on November 3, 2007. However, he later managed to flee and joined the student protest at the University of Punjab on November 14 where he was captured and maltreated by the scholar-activists. He was later arrested from the protest and was sent to Dera Ghazi Khan jail in Punjab but was released after a couple of days.
On October 30, 2011, Khan addressed many thousands of supporters in Lahore and on December 25, 2011, in Karachi on the challenging policies of the govt.
On April 21, 2013, Imran Khan launched his PR campaigns for the 2013 Pakistan elections. Khan addressed public meetings in several parts of the country-- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Seraiki belt cities, etc. He announced that his party will introduce a consistent system of education where the rich and poor will have an equivalent opportunity. He ended his campaign by addressing supporters of Islamabad via a video where he was lying on a single bed in Lahore thanks to his head injuries after he tumbled from a forklift at the sting of the stage.
On May 11, 2013, elections were held in Pakistan and Pakistan Muslim League (N) won with a majority. However, PTI emerged because the second-largest party in Karachi and won 30 directly elected parliamentary seats. PTI became the third-largest party in National Assembly after Pakistan People's Party.
PTI swooped the militancy-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and formed the provincial government and presented a tax-free, well-balanced allow the fiscal year 2013-14.
Imran Khan was of the opinion that terrorist activities are often stopped in Pakistan through dialogue and offered to open an office in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He accused the US once they killed Hakimullah Mehsud (Talibani Leader) which led to the disturbance in Pakistan and demanded the govt to dam the NATO supply route in retaliation.
On November 14, 2013, Khan ordered the dismissal of Ministers of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) and ordered Chief Minister Pervez Khan Khattak to finish the alliance with QWP. Bakht Baidar and Ibrar Hussain Kamoli of QWP who were ministers for Manpower & Industry and Forest & Environment respectively were dismissed and Chief Minister dismissed Yousuf Ayub Khan, Minister for Communication and Works of PTI over his fake degree.
Imran Khan: 2018 Pakistan election
Imran Khan contested from 5 constituencies in the 2018 Pakistan General Elections. He became the primary person within the history of Pakistan who contested and won altogether the 5 constituencies. Previously, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who contested from four constituencies won in three in 1970.
In May 2018, PTI announced a 100-day agenda for the longer-term government-- the creation of a replacement province in Southern Punjab, fast-tracking of the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the betterment of law and order situation in Karachi, and betterment of relations with Baloch political leaders.
Imran Khan: Victory speech after winning 2018 elections
After his victory in the 2018 Pakistan election, Khan laid several policies for his future government and stated that he will build Pakistan as a humanitarian state which can be supported principles of the primary Islamic state of Medina. He further stated that his party will work for the betterment of the less fortunate. Khan also said that everybody is going to be equal under the law and therefore the Prime Minister's House is going to be converted into an academic institute and therefore the governors' houses are going to be used for the advantage of the general public.
He said that he aimed to find out from China and hoped for better relations with Afghanistan, the US, India, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
Imran Khan: Prime Minister of Pakistan
On Transfiguration, 2018, PTI officially nominated Imran Khan for the Prime Ministerial post. On August 17, 2018, Imran Khan became the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and on August 18, 2018, took the oath of office. After taking an oath, he reshuffled in Pakistan's bureaucracy and in 2019, committed a serious cabinet reshuffle within the ministries of interior, finance, information, and planning.
After the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Khan stated that Pakistan must maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia thanks to the depression.
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, Imran Khan-led government unrolled a fund of just about $1 billion, the most important welfare program in Pakistan's history to assist the poorest segment of the population.
Imran Khan: Net Worth, Assets and more
In the year 2012, Imran Khan had a net worth of 160,000 USD which reduced to 99,000 USD in 2013 (elections were held in Pakistan). In 2014, his net worth increased to 240,000 USD and in 2015, he had a net worth of 9.4 Million USD which increased in 2017 to 9.9 Million USD.
Imran Khans owns a 300 Kanal Mansion in Bani Gala worth 5.3 Million USD, a house in Zaman Park, Lahore worth 210,000 USD. He has also invested in several businesses which sum up to 280,000 USD. Imran Khan also owns an agricultural land of 39 kanals at Talhar and 530 Kanals at Khanewal. Khan also owns furniture of 4,200 USD and livestock of 1,400 USD. In 2015, Imran Khan paid 540 USD tax and in 2016, paid 1,100 USD tax.
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