Imran Khan Niazi is one of the eminent politicians, a fantastic cricketer and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek Insaf. Imran Khan is very popular worldwide due to his charismatic personality.
Biography
Imran Khan was born to an upper-middle-class Pashtun Niazi family in Lahore on October 5, 1952. He’s a cricket-turned-politician and got a chance to serve Pakistan as its 22nd Prime Minister.
Having an influential cricket career, he’s got good fame as a great bowler, superb batsman, and all-rounder. However, in politics, he has been cherished by many through his incredible personality.
Family Background
Imran Khan belongs to a Pashtun family and has four siblings (sisters). He’s the only son of his father, Ikram Ullah, a civil engineer. He got married to Jemima Goldsmith in Paris on May 16, 1995. The marriage ended after nine years in 2004. They have two sons, Suleman Isa and Qasim.
In 2015, Imran Khan married Reham Khan, a journalist and anchor, but unfortunately, the marriage ended after nine months in October 2015. Next, he married Bushra Bibi, a woman known for her Sufism, in February 2018.
Education
Imran went to Cathedral School and Aitchison College, Lahore. Then he graduated from Keble College, Oxford, gaining maximum political, economic and philosophical knowledge.
Cricket
Imran Khan was an all-rounded right, right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He started cricket at Aitchison College. Khan started his international career in cricket in 1971. He played his first test match against England.
He became the captain of the team in 1982. Under his captaincy, Pakistan won the Asia Cup in 1986—a historic nail-biting match between India and Pakistan. Javed Miandad hit a six in the last ball. It is the first cup won by Pakistan in international cricket.
In the 1992 World Cup, Pakistan played under the captaincy of Imran Khan. Pakistan started poorly by losing initial matches, but they recovered and started winning the games. However, no one, including experts except Sunil Gavaskar, expected Pakistan to win the World Cup, but under Khan’s captaincy, Pakistan won the highest title in cricket in 1992.
Pakistan Tehreek Insaf
Imran Khan founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on April 25 1996, in Lahore. In no time, it gained enough popularity to be competitive against the well-known parties PMLN and PPP. In 2013, it became prominent by getting the second-highest number of votes.
The party took power in KPK. In 2018, it got more excited by gaining the maximum number of votes, resulting in Imran Khan becoming Pakistan’s prime minister. However, in the fourth year of his government the opponents made no confidence movement, resulting in the decline of Khan’s government. Despite this, PTI is still the most popular party in Pakistan, especially among youth.
Political Journey
The caretaker Prime Minister Moeenuddin Ahmad appointed Imran Khan as the ambassador for tourism. Khan became part of the Jamiat-e-Pasban, an off-shoot of Jamaat-e-Islami of Hamid Gul and Muhammad Ali Durrani. Finally, in 1996, Imran led the foundation of his political party, PTI.
Initially, he needed to get entry into the National Assembly. However, in the 2013 election, PTI failed to win too many seats but took the maximum number of votes across the country.
In 2018, PTI gained the maximum seats while other political parties, mainly PMLN, had a lousy time, condemned by allegations. As a result, Imran Khan became the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Relations with the Military
He has established good relations with the Army before the elections of 2018. These relations remained good in the first two years of his government. In the third year of Khan’s government, conflicts started between Imran and the Army. Gradually, things became worse.
It is generally said, and Imran Khan states, that it was the Army that pushed the political opponents of Imran Khan to unite and start a movement against him. Currently, he is outside the good books of the Army.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital
Shaukat Khanam died of cancer. At that time, there was no reasonable cancer hospital in the country. Imran Khan created a good cancer hospital and started a campaign within and outside the country.
Through his cricket fame and personality, he gets reasonable funds for the hospital. The Nawaz Sharif Prime Minister donated the land for the hospital at that time. Imran Khan has fulfilled his dream to construct the first cancer hospital in Lahore named after his mother, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.
In Shaukat Khanam, needy people are treated free of cost and get facilities similar to those available to ordinary persons. Later, Imran Khan created another cancer hospital in Peshawar.
Education Reforms
During Khan’s tenure, two reforms are especially mentionable. In schools, the PTI government has been forced to teach a single national curriculum to bring standardisation to the education system. Many schools adopted the curriculum initially, but after some time, many schools started deviating from the single curriculum.
At the university level, it is felt that students should read the Quran with translation. Therefore, universities must teach the complete Quran with translation during a four-year bachelor program. The education department has also ordered that the Quran with translation be made compulsory every semester.
Allegations
He was arrested by parliamentary troops accused of corruption, a land deal involving Al Qadir trust, and for not cooperating with the anti-graft agency’s investigations. However, he denied the allegations and said he was detained on incorrect charges.
Conclusion
To conclude, Imran Khan’s cricket career was the brightest, and his political journey, as a whole, was incredible except for his arrest at last. His supporters still support him for having an exceptional personality as a politician, while critics are against him considering the facts and allegations of corruption and duplicity.
Imran Khan Niazi is one of the eminent politicians, a fantastic cricketer and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Imran Khan is very popular worldwide due to his charismatic personality.