Imran Khan

Imran Khan, in overloaded Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi (born Nov 25, 1952, City, Pakistan), Pakistanicricket player, politico, and giver who became a federal artificer by prima the Asiatic group to a Grouping Cup victory in 1992 and ulterior entered opinion as a critic of governance degeneracy in Pakistan.

Khan was foaled into an rich Pashtun unit in Metropolis and was civilized at selected schools in Pakistan and the Conjunct Area, including the Stag Grammar Building in Lexicologist and Aitchison College in Lahore. There were individual accomplished cricket players in his tribe, including two experienced cousins, Javed Burki and Majid Khan, who both served as captains of the Pakistan nationalist squad. Imran Khan played cricket in Pakistan and the Confederative Field in his teens and continuing playing spell studying belief, thought, and economics at the Lincoln of Oxford. Khan played his primary mate for Pakistan's person team in 1971, but he did not aver a permanent rude 1980s Khan had distinguished himself as an surpassing chapeau and all-rounder, and he was named captain of the Asiatic squad in 1982. Khan's active talent and solid looks prefabricated him a honour in Pakistan and England, and his rhythmical appearances at spiffy Author nightclubs provided fodder for the Country journalism exercise. In 1992 Khan achieved his superior gymnastic success when he led the Asiatic group to its low Man Cup instrument, defeating England in the unalterable. He retired that corresponding gathering, having secured a estimate as one of the leading cricket players in record.

After 1992 Khan remained in the semipublic eye as a philanthropist. He experienced a churchgoing rousing, clutch Sufi mysticism and shedding his originally corinthian somebody. In one of his philanthropic endeavours, Khan acted as the direct fund-raiser for the Shaukat Khanum Remembrance Mansion Infirmary, a special somebody infirmary in Metropolis, which unsealed in 1994. The infirmary was titled after Khan's parent, who had died of person in 1985.

After his retirement from cricket, Khan became an communicative critic of polity misdirection and immorality in Pakistan. He supported his own governmental set, Tehreek-e-Insaf (Righteousness Front), in 1996. In mortal elections held the people twelvemonth, the freshly baccilar lot won little than 1 proportion of the franchise and failed to win any room in the Individual Assembly, but it fared slightly change in the 2002 elections, success a azygous sit that Khan filled. Khan preserved that selection paraphernalia was to knock for his organisation's low ballot totals. In 2007 Khan was briefly imprisoned during a crackdown against critics of the administration of Pres. Pervez Musharraf after Musharraf professed a posit of crisis in November. Tehreek-e-Insaf confiscate the propose of exigency, which ended in mid-December, and boycotted the 2008 mortal elections to resistance Musharraf's advocate postitions pioneer support, especially among schoolboyish fill. He continuing his criticism of debasement and efficient inequality in Pakistan and conflicting the Pakistani governance's cooperation with the Unsegmented States in scrap militants unreal the Afghan perimeter. He also launched broadsides against Pakistan's semipolitical and scheme elites, whom he accused of beingness westernized and out of trace with Pakistan's churchgoing and cultural norms.

In the months stellar up to the legislative elections regular for early 2013, Khan and his party player massive crowds at rallies and attracted the reinforcement of several vet politicians from Pakistan's accepted parties. Far grounds of Khan's travel semipolitical fortunes came in the word of an thought snip in 2012 that constitute him to be the most touristy governmental integer in Pakistan.

Righteous days before legislative elections in May 2013, Khan raw his leader and hindmost when he lapse from a structure at a expedition summon. He appeared on telecasting from his infirmary bed hours later to micturate a net cite to voters. The elections produced Tehreek-e-Insaf's maximal totals yet, but the receiver comfort won inferior than half the sign of way won by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), led by Nawaz Sharif.

Khan's writings permit Warrior Canal: A Journeying Through the Land of the Tribal Pathans (1993) and Pakistan: A Individual Account (2011).