My favorite personality is Imran
khan
1. Who is Imran khan.
Imran Khan Niazi born 5 October 1952, is
a Pakistani politician, former cricketer, and philanthropist who leads the Pakistan Movement of Justice and serves as a member of the National Assembly. Before entering
politics, Khan played international cricket for two decades in the late
twentieth century.
Khan was born to a Pashtun family in Lahore and educated at Aitchison, Worcester, and later at the Keble College, Oxford. Khan started playing cricket
at the age of 13. Initially playing for his college and later for the Worcestershire Cricket Club, he made
his debut for Pakistan at the age of 18 during the 1971 English series at Birmingham. After graduating from
Oxford, Khan joined Pakistan's
national cricket team in 1976 and played until 1992. Khan also served as the team's captain intermittently from 1982–1992. He, notably, led Pakistan to victory
at the 1992 Cricket World Cup,
Pakistan's first and only victory in that competition.
2. Background of Imran khan.
Khan was born in Lahore on 5 October 1952. Some reports suggest he was born on 25
November 1952. The only son of
Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer, and his wife Shaukat Khanum. Long settled in Mianwali in northwestern Punjab, his paternal family is of Pashtun ethnicity and belongs to the Niazi tribe. Khan's mother hailed from the Pashtun
tribe of Burki, which had
produced several successful cricketers in Pakistan's history, including his cousins Javed Burki and Majid
Khan. Maternally, Khan is also a descendant of the Sufi warrior-poet and
inventor of the Pashto alphabet, Pir Roshan, who hailed from his
maternal family's ancestral Kaniguram town located in South Waziristan in the tribal areas of northwest
Pakistan.
A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his four
sisters in relatively affluent (upper-middle-class) circumstances and
received a privileged education. He was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore and the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket.
In 1972 he enrolled in Keble
College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics,
graduating with honors in 1975.
On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima
Goldsmith, in a two-minute ceremony conducted in Urdu in
Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond registry office in England. Jemima
converted to Islam. The couple has two sons, Sulaiman Isa, and Kasim.
Rumors circulated that the couple's marriage was in crisis.
Jemima denied the rumors by publishing an advertisement in Pakistani
newspapers. On 22 June 2004, it
was announced that the couple had divorced, ending the nine-year marriage
because it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to life in Pakistan". Khan resides in his sprawling
farmhouse at Bani Gala. In November 2009, Khan underwent
emergency surgery at Lahore's Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital to remove an
obstruction in his small
intestine.
In January 2015 Khan married British-Pakistani journalist Reham Khan in a private Nikah ceremony at his residence in
Islamabad. On 22 October 2015, they announced their intention to file for divorce.
3. Cricket
history of Imran khan.
Khan made a
lackluster first-class cricket debut at the age of sixteen in Lahore.
By the start of the 1970s, he was playing for his home teams of Lahore A
(1969–70), Lahore B (1969–70), Lahore Greens (1970–71), and, eventually, Lahore
(1970–71). Khan was part of the University of Oxford's Blues Cricket team
during the 1973–1975 seasons. At Worcestershire, where he played
county cricket from 1971 to 1976, he was regarded as only an average
medium-pace bowler. During this decade, other teams represented by Khan
included Dawood Industries (1975–1976) and Pakistan International Airlines
(1975–1976 to 1980–1981). From 1983 to 1988, he played for Sussex.
Khan made his test cricket
debut against England in 1971 in the city of Birmingham. Three
years later, he debuted in the One Day International (ODI) match,
once again playing against England at Nottingham for the Prudential
Trophy. After graduating from Oxford and finishing his tenure at
Worcestershire, he returned to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent place
on his native national team starting from the 1976–1977 season, during which
they faced New Zealand and Australia. Following the
Australian series, he toured the West Indies, where he met Tony
Greig, who signed him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.[6] His
credentials as one of the fastest bowlers of the world started to become
established when he finished third at 139.7 km/h in a fast
bowling contest at Perth in 1978, behind Jeff
Thomson and Michael Holding, but ahead of Dennis
Lillee, Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts.
As a fast bowler, Khan
reached the peak of his powers in 1982. In 9 Tests, he got 62 wickets at
13.29 each, the lowest average of any bowler in Test history with at least 50
wickets in a calendar year. In January 1983, playing against India,
he attained a Test bowling rating of 922 points. Although calculated
retrospectively (ICC player ratings did not exist at the time), Khan's form and
performance during this period ranks third in the ICC's All-Time Test
Bowling Rankings.
Khan achieved the
all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the
second-fastest record behind Ian Botham's 72. He is also established as
having the second-highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a Test batsman
playing at position 6 of the batting order. He played his last Test match
for Pakistan in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad.
Khan retired permanently from cricket six months after his last ODI, the
historic 1992 World Cup final against England in Melbourne,
Australia. He ended his career with 88 Test matches, 126 innings, and
scored 3807 runs at an average of 37.69, including six centuries and 18 fifties.
His highest score was 136 runs. As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test
cricket, which made him the first Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to do
so. In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 runs at an average of
33.41. His highest score remains 102 not out. His best ODI bowling is
documented at 6 wickets for 14 runs.
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Captaincy
At the height of his
career, in 1982, the thirty-year-old Khan took over the captaincy of the
Pakistan cricket team from Javed Miandad. As a captain, Khan played
48 Test matches, out of which 14 were won by Pakistan, 8 lost and the rest of
26 were drawn. He also played 139 ODIs, winning 77, losing 57, and ending one in
a tie.
In the team's second match,
Khan led them to their first Test win on English soil for 28 years
at Lord's. Khan's first year as captain was the peak of his legacy as
a fast bowler as well as an all-rounder. He recorded the best Test bowling of
his career while taking 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka at Lahore in
1981–1982. He also topped both the bowling and batting averages against
England in three Test series in 1982, taking 21 wickets and averaging 56 with
the bat. Later the same year, he put up a highly acknowledged performance in a
home series against the formidable Indian team by taking 40 wickets
in six Tests at an average of 13.95. By the end of this series in 1982–1983,
Khan had taken 88 wickets in 13 Test matches over one year as
captain.
This same Test series
against India, however, also resulted in a stress fracture in his shin that
kept him out of cricket for more than two years. An experimental treatment
funded by the Pakistani government helped him recover by the end of 1984 and he
made a successful comeback to international cricket in the latter part of the
1984–1985 season.
In India in 1987, Khan led
Pakistan to its first-ever test series win and this was followed by Pakistan's
first series victory in England during the same year. During the 1980s,
his team also recorded three creditable draws against the West Indies. India
and Pakistan co-hosted the 1987 World Cup, but neither ventured beyond the
semi-finals. Khan retired from international cricket at the end of the World
Cup. In 1988, he was asked to return to the captaincy by the president of
Pakistan, General Zia-Ul-Haq, and on 18 January, he announced his decision
to rejoin the team. Soon after returning to the captaincy, Khan led
Pakistan to another winning tour in the West Indies, which he has recounted as
"the last time I really bowled well". He was declared Man of the
Series against West Indies in 1988 when he took 23 wickets in 3 tests.
Khan's career-high as a
captain and cricketer came when he led Pakistan to victory in the 1992
Cricket World Cup. Playing with a brittle batting line-up, Khan promoted
himself as a batsman to play in the top order along with Javed Miandad, but his
contribution as a bowler was minimal. At the age of 39, Khan took the winning
last wicket himself.
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Post-retirement
In 1994, Khan had admitted
that, during Test matches, he "occasionally scratched the side of the ball
and lifted the seam." He also added, "Only once did I use an
object. When Sussex was playing Hampshire in 1981 the ball was not deviating
at all. I got the 12th man to bring out a bottle top and it started to move
around a lot." In 1996, Khan successfully defended himself in
a libel action brought forth by former English captain and
all-rounder Ian Botham and batsman Allan Lamb over comments
they alleged were made by Khan in two articles about the above-mentioned ball-tampering and
another article published in an Indian magazine, India Today. They
claimed that, in the latter publication, Khan had called the two cricketers
"racist, ill-educated and lacking in class." Khan protested that he
had been misquoted, saying that he was defending himself after having admitted
that he tampered with a ball in a county match 18 years ago. Khan won the
libel case, which the judge labeled a "complete exercise in
futility", with a 10–2 majority decision by the jury.
Since retiring, Khan has
written opinion pieces on cricket for various British and Asian newspapers,
especially regarding the Pakistani national team. His contributions have been
published in India's Outlook magazine, the Guardian, the Independent,
and the Telegraph. Khan also sometimes appears as a cricket
commentator on Asian and British sports networks, including BBC
Urdu and the Star TV network] In 2004, when the Indian
cricket team toured Pakistan after 14 years, he was a commentator on TEN
Sports' special live show, Straight Drive, while he was also a
columnist for sify.com for the 2005 India-Pakistan Test series.
He has provided analysis for every cricket World Cup since 1992, which includes
providing match summaries for the BBC during the 1999 World Cup. He
holds as a captain the world record for taking most wickets, best bowling
strike rate, and best bowling average in test] and best bowling
figures (8 wickets for 60 runs) in a test inning, and also most
five-wicket hauls (6) in a test inning in wins.
4. Welfare activities of Imran khan.
During the 1990s, Khan also
served as UNICEF's Special Representative
for Sport and promoted health and immunization programs in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. While in London, he also works with
the Lord's Taverners, a cricket charity.
Shaukat
Khanum Memorial Trust
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research
Centre
Namal College was founded by Khan
in Mianwali. Khan focused his efforts solely on social work. By 1991, he had
founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charity organization bearing the
name of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum. As the Trust's maiden endeavor, Khan
established Pakistan's first and only cancer hospital,
constructed
using donations and funds exceeding $25 million, raised by Khan from all
over the world.
Namal Knowledge City
On 27 April 2008, Khan
established a technical college in the Mianwali District called Namal College. It was built by the Mianwali Development Trust (MDT) and is an associate college of the University of Bradford in December 2005.
Imran
Khan Foundation
Imran Khan Foundation is
another welfare work, which aims to assist needy people all over Pakistan. It
has provided help to flood victims in Pakistan. Buksh Foundation has
partnered with the Imran Khan Foundation to light up villages in Dera Ghazi Khan, Mianwali, and Dera Ismail Khan under the project 'Lighting a Million
Lives'. The campaign will establish several Solar Charging Stations in the
selected off-grid villages and will provide villagers with solar lanterns,
which can be regularly charged at the solar-charging stations.
5. political career of Imran khan.
In
1996, Khan founded a political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Khan supported General Pervez
Musharraf's military coup in 1999, believing Musharraf would "end
corruption, clear out the political mafias". According to Khan, he was Musharraf's
choice for prime minister in 2002 but turned down the offer. In the 2002 Pakistani general election in October across 272
constituencies, Khan anticipated the elections and was prepared to form a
coalition if his party did not get a majority of the vote. He was elected from Mianwali. He has also served as a part of the
Standing Committees on Kashmir and Public Accounts.
On 6 May 2005, Khan was mentioned in The
New Yorker as
being the "most directly responsible" for drawing attention in the
Muslim world to the Newsweek story about the alleged desecration of the Qur'an in a US military prison
at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In June 2007, Khan faced political
opponents in and outside the parliament.
On 2 October 2007, as part of the All Parties Democratic Movement,
Khan joined 85 other MPs to resign from Parliament in protest of the
presidential election scheduled for 6 October, which general Musharraf was
contesting without resigning as army chief. On
3 November 2007, Khan was put under house
arrest, after president Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. Later Khan
escaped and went into hiding. He
eventually came out of hiding on
PPP and Khan's PTI, in a move to prevent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to
make the government, but the offer was rejected.
In January 2014, YouGov ranked Khan
as a famous person in and out of Pakistan.] Between 2011
and 2013, Khan and Nawaz
Sharif began to engage each other in a bitter feud. The rivalry
between the two leaders grew in late 2011 when Khan addressed his largest crowd
at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore.] From
26 April 2013, in the run-up to the elections, both the PML-N and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf started to criticize each other.
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2013 elections
campaign
On 21 April 2013 Khan
launched his final public relations campaign for the 2013 elections from Lahore where he addressed
thousands of supporters at The Mall, Lahore He announced that
he would pull Pakistan out of the US-led war on terror and bring peace to
the Pashtun tribal belt. Khan addressed different public meetings in Malakand, Lower
Dir District, Upper
Dir District, and
other cities of Pakistan where he announced that PTI will introduce a uniform
education system in which the children of rich and poor will have equal
opportunities Khan ended his south Punjab campaign by addressing rallies
at Bahawalpur, Khanpur, Sadiqabad, Rahim Yar Khan and Rajanpur Khan
ended the campaign by addressing a rally of supporters in Islamabad via a video link
while lying on a bed at a hospital in Lahore. According to the
last survey before the elections by The Herald showed 24.98 percent
of voters nationally planned to vote for his party, just a whisker behind
former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan
Muslim League (PML-N).
On 7 May, just four days
before the elections, Khan was rushed to Shaukat Khanum hospital
in Lahore after he tumbled from
a forklift at the edge of a
stage and fell headfirst to the ground. He survived. Pakistan's 2013 elections were held on 11 May
2013 throughout the country. The elections resulted in a clear majority of Pakistan Muslim League Khan's PTI also
emerged as the second largest part of Karachi Khan's party PTI won 30
directly elected parliamentary seats.
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In opposition
Khan led Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf became
the opposition party in Punjab and Sindh. Khan became the parliamentary leader of his party. On
31 July 2013 Khan was issued a contempt of court notice for allegedly
criticizing the superior judiciary, and his use of the word "shameful" for
the judiciary. The notice was discharged after Khan submitted before the
Supreme Court that he criticized the lower judiciary for their actions during
the May 2013 General election while those judicial officers were working as
returning officers Khan's party swooped the militancy-hit northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and formed the
provincial government PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government presented a
balanced, tax-free budget for the fiscal year 2013–14.
On 13 November 2013, Imran
Khan being party leader, ordered Pervez Khattak to dismiss ministers of the Qaumthe I Watan Party who were allegedly involved in
corruption. Bakht Baidar and Ibrar Hussan Kamoli
of Qaumi Watan Party were
ministers for Manpower & Industry and Forest & Environment
respectively were dismissed. Khan ordered Chief Minister KPK to end the alliance with Qaumi Watan Party. Chief Minister KPK also dismissed the minister for
Communication and Works of PTI "Yousuf
Ayub" due to a fake degree.
One year after the elections,
on 11 May 2014, Khan alleged that the 2013 general elections were rigged in favor of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League. On 14 August 2014, Imran Khan led a
rally of supporters from Lahore to Islamabad, promising Nawaz Sharif's resignation and investigation into alleged
electoral fraud. On its way to the capital Khan's convoy was attacked by
stones from Muslim League supporters in Gujranwala, however, there were no fatalities. Khan
was reported to be attacked with guns which forced him to travel in a bullet-proof vehicle. On 15 August Khan led protesters to enter the capital
and a few days later marched into the high-security Red Zone, on 1 September
2014, according to Al Jazeera, attempted to storm Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif's official residence, which prompted the outbreak of violence which has
resulted in three deaths and more than 595 people injured, including 115 police
officers. By September Khan had entered into a de facto alliance with
Canadian-Pakistani cleric Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, both aimed to mobilize their supporters for regime change. Khan entered into an agreement with the Sharif administration to establish a three-member high-powered judicial
commission that would be formed under a presidential ordinance. The commission would
make its final report public, If the commission finds a country-wide pattern of
rigging proved, the prime minister would dissolve the national and provincial
assemblies in terms the articles 58(1) and 112(1) of the Constitution –
thereby meaning that the premier would also appoint the caretaker setup in
consultation with the leader of the opposition and fresh elections would be held.
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