IMRAN KHAN Niazi

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi HI(M) PP (Urdu/Pashto: عمران احمد خان نیازی; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who served as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidence motion. He is the founder and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), one of the largest political parties in the counry.

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                                Khan in 2019

• Born to a Niazi Pashtun circle of relatives in Lahore, Khan graduated from England's Keble College in 1975. He started out his international cricket profession at age 18, in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan played until 1992, served as the crew's captain intermittently among 1982 and 1992,[5] and received the 1992 Cricket World Cup, in what's Pakistan's first and best victory inside the competition. Considered one in every of cricket's best all-rounders,[6][7] Khan scored 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket and turned into inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Khan based cancer hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar,[8] and Namal College in Mianwali,[9][10] prior to his ascent in politics.[11][12] He founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996, which won a seat in the National Assembly in 2002, and saw Khan serve as an opposition member from Mianwali till 2007. PTI boycotted the 2008 election, but inside the subsequent election, have become the second-largest birthday celebration with the aid of famous vote.[13][14] In the 2018 fashionable election, strolling on a populist platform, PTI emerged as the largest birthday celebration inside the National Assembly, and fashioned a coalition authorities with independents with Khan as Prime Minister.
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• During his authorities, Khan addressed a stability of bills crisis with a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.[15] He presided over a shrinking present day account deficit,[16][17] and limited defence spending to curtail the economic deficit,[18][19] main to some preferred economic growth.[20] He enacted policies which extended tax series[21][22] and investment,[23] and reforms were made to the social protection net. His authorities committed to a renewable strength transition, released a countrywide reforestation initiative and accelerated blanketed areas, and led the united states of america for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, his failure to revive the financial system and the rising inflation fee triggered him political issues.[24] Despite his promised anti-corruption marketing campaign, the notion of corruption in Pakistan worsened for the duration of his rule.[25] He turned into accused of political victimisation of opponents and clamping down on freedom of expression and dissent.[26]
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• In overseas relations, he handled border skirmishes in opposition to India and strengthened family members with China and Russia,[27] whilst relations with america cooled. Following the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021, Khan congratulated the Taliban for his or her victory inside the 2001–2021 battle, and entreated the worldwide network to help their new authorities.[28][29][30] He changed into additionally sympathetic to the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan or TTP), and said that his authorities changed into negotiating a peace deal with TTP with the assist of the Afghan Taliban.[31][32] On 10 April 2022, Khan became the usa's first high minister to be deposed through a no-self belief motion in parliament. On 22 August 2022, Khan became charged with the aid of the Pakistani police underneath anti-terror legal guidelines after Khan accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing his near aide.[33]

Early lifestyles and circle of relatives

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Family of Imran Khan

Khan changed into born in Lahore on five October 1952. Some reviews propose he became born on 25 November 1952.[34][35][36][37] It changed into stated that 25 November become wrongly noted with the aid of Pakistan Cricket Board officers on his passport.[38][failed verification] He is the most effective son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer, and his spouse Shaukat Khanum, and has 4 sisters.[39] Long settled in Mianwali in northwestern Punjab, his paternal circle of relatives are of Pashtun ethnicity and belong to the Niazi tribe,[40][41] and certainly one of his ancestors, Haibat Khan Niazi, within the 16th century, "turned into one among Sher Shah Suri's main generals, as well as being the governor of Punjab."[42] Like his father, Khan's mother became an ethnic Pashtun, who belonged to the Burki tribe and whose ancestors had been settled in the Jalandhar district of Punjab for centuries. Following the introduction of Pakistan, she migrated to Lahore with the rest of Khan's maternal household.[43] Khan's maternal own family has produced a number of cricketers, which includes those who've represented Pakistan,[39] together with his cousins Javed Burki and Majid Khan.[40] Maternally, Khan is likewise a descendant of the Sufi warrior-poet and inventor of the Pashto alphabet, Pir Roshan, who hailed from his maternal circle of relatives's ancestral Kaniguram city positioned in South Waziristan inside the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan.[44] His maternal circle of relatives changed into based totally in Basti Danishmanda, Jalandhar, India for approximately six hundred years.[45][46]

A quiet and shy boy in his kids, Khan grew up with his sisters in highly affluent, higher center-class situations[47] and acquired a privileged schooling. He became educated at the Aitchison College and Cathedral School in Lahore,[48][49] and then the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, wherein he excelled at cricket. In 1972, he enrolled in Keble College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1975.[50] An fanatic for university cricket at Keble, Paul Hayes, become instrumental in securing the admission of Khan, after he were grew to become down by means of Cambridge.[51]

Cricket career

Khan made his high-quality cricket debut at the age of sixteen in Lahore. By the start of the Seventies, he was gambling for his home teams of Lahore A (1969–70), Lahore B (1969–70), Lahore Greens (1970–71) and, sooner or later, Lahore (1970–seventy one).[52] Khan was a part of the University of Oxford's Blues Cricket group throughout the 1973–1975 seasons.[50]

He played English county cricket from 1971 to 1976 for Worcestershire. During this decade, different teams represented via Khan blanketed Dawood Industries (1975–1976) and Pakistan International Airlines (1975–1976 to 1980–1981). From 1983 to 1988, he performed for Sussex.[53]

Khan made his Test cricket debut towards England in June 1971 at Edgbaston.[54] Three years later, in August 1974, he debuted within the One Day International (ODI) healthy, all over again playing in opposition to England at Trent Bridge for the Prudential Trophy.[54] After graduating from Oxford and finishing his tenure at Worcestershire, he again to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent location on his native country wide team beginning from the 1976–1977 season, for the duration of which they confronted New Zealand and Australia.[52] Following the Australian collection, he toured the West Indies, where he met Tony Greig, who signed him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.[53] His credentials as one of the fastest bowlers inside the global began to grow to be installed when he completed 1/3 at 139.7 km/h in a fast bowling contest at Perth in 1978, at the back of Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding, however beforehand of Dennis Lillee, Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts.[55] During the past due 1970s, Khan become one of the pioneers of the reverse swing bowling approach. He imparted this trick to the bowling duo of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who mastered and popularised this artwork in later years.[56]

As a bowler, Khan first of all bowled with a extraordinarily chest-on action, at medium-pace.[57] However he worked tough to transform his action to a extra classical kind, and to reinforce his frame, to allow rapid bowling.[58][59] Khan attained his prime as a fast bowler in January 1980 until 1988 whilst he have become out and out fast bowler. During this span Imran picked 236 test wickets at 17.Seventy seven apiece with 18 5-wicket hauls and 5 10 wicket hauls. His bowling average and strike fee were better than Richard Hadlee (19.03), Malcolm Marshall (20.20), Dennis Lillee (24.07), Joel Garner (20.62) and Michael Holding (23.Sixty eight).[60][61] In January 1983, gambling in opposition to India, he attained a Test bowling rating of 922 factors. Although calculated retrospectively (International Cricket Council (ICC) participant rankings did now not exist on the time), Khan's form and performance at some stage in this period ranks 1/3 within the ICC's All-Time Test Bowling Rankings.[62]

Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and three hundred wickets) in 75 Tests, the second one-quickest report in the back of Ian Botham's 72. He additionally has the second one-maximum all-time batting common of 61.86 for a Test batsman playing at role 6 inside the batting order.[63] He played his final Test fit for Pakistan in January 1992, towards Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Khan retired completely from cricket six months after his final ODI, the historical 1992 World Cup final in opposition to England in Melbourne, Australia.[64] He ended his career with 88 Test fits, 126 innings and scored 3807 runs at an average of 37.69, which includes six centuries and 18 fifties. His highest rating become 136. As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the primary Pakistani and international's fourth bowler to do so.[53] In ODIs, he performed a hundred seventy five suits and scored 3709 runs at a mean of 33.Forty one. His maximum score become 102 now not out. His excellent ODI bowling became 6 wickets for 14 runs, a document for the quality bowling figures via any bowler in an ODI innings in a losing cause.[65

Public profile

After the May 2013 elections, Mohammed Hanif writing for The Guardian termed Khan's aid as appealing "to the knowledgeable center training however Pakistan's foremost trouble is that there are not sufficient knowledgeable urban center-elegance citizens within the united states".[364] Pankaj Mishra writing for The New York Times in 2012, charactised Khan as a "cogent image out of his—and Pakistan's—clashing identities" including that "his identity with the struggling loads and his attacks on his affluent, English-speakme peers have lengthy been mocked within the residing rooms of Lahore and Karachi because the hypocritical ravings of "Im the Dim" and "Taliban Khan"—the two preferred monikers for him." Mishra concluded with "like any populist politicians, Khan seems to offer something to every person. Yet the great differences between his constituencies—socially liberal, upper-middle-elegance Pakistanis and the deeply conservative residents of Pakistan's tribal regions—appear irreconcilable."[365]

Khan addressing an Interfaith Christmas Dinner in 2014

On 18 March 2012, Salman Rushdie criticised Khan for refusing to attend the India Today Conference due to Rushdie's attendance. Khan stated the "immeasurable harm" that Rushdie's writings have induced Muslims around the arena. Rushdie, in turn, advised that Khan turned into a "dictator in waiting."[366] In 2011, While writing for The Washington Post, Richard Leiby termed Khan as an underdog including that he "regularly seems like a seasoned-democracy liberal but is widely known for his coziness with conservative Islamist events."[367] Ayesha Siddiqa, in September 2014, writing for The Express Tribune, claimed that "while we will all sympathise with Khan's right to exchange the political tone, it might be profitable for him to check how he might, if he did emerge as the high minister of this country, placed the genie back into the bottle."[368] H. M. Naqvi termed Khan as a "kind of a Ron Paul determine", including that "there may be no taint of corruption and there is his anti-status quo message."[367]

During the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, Khan turned into a popular intercourse symbol.[369][370] He became referred to as a socialite in English excessive society,[370] and sported a playboy picture amongst the British press and paparazzi due to his "non-stop partying" at London nightclubs which includes Annabel's and Tramp, even though he claims to have hated English pubs and by no means drank alcohol.[8][40][75][371] British heiress Sita White, daughter of Gordon White, Baron White of Hull, have become the mom of his alleged lovechild daughter, Tyrian Jade White. A choose inside the US ruled him to be the father of Tyrian because of his failure to seem in court docket,[372] but Khan has denied paternity and requested for the case to be open in Pakistani courts.[373][374] Later in 2007, Election Commission of Pakistan ruled in favour of Khan and dismissed the ex parte judgment of the United States court docket, on grounds that it was neither admissible in proof before any court or tribunal in Pakistan nor executable towards him.[375] About his lifestyle as a bachelor, he has frequently stated that, "I never claim to have led an angelic lifestyles."[40]

Declan Walsh in The Guardian newspaper in England in 2005 defined Khan as a "depressing flesh presser," observing that, "Khan's thoughts and affiliations in view that entering politics in 1996 have swerved and skidded like a rickshaw in a rainshower... He preaches democracy sooner or later but offers a vote to reactionary mullahs the subsequent."[376] Khan has also been accused by some fighters and critics of hypocrisy and opportunism, together with what has been called his lifestyles's "playboy to puritan U-flip."[66] Political commentator Najam Sethi, said that, "A lot of the Imran Khan story is ready backtracking on loads of factors he stated earlier, that is why this does not inspire human beings."[66] Author Fatima Bhutto has criticised Khan for "exceptional coziness no longer with the navy but with dictatorship" as well as some of his political selections.[377] Nevertheless, Khan's approval score because he became Prime Minister remained comparatively strong for an officeholder in Pakistani politics with a majority approving (fifty one%), as compared to 46% disapproval and three% unsure.[378] Other polls suggested his approval turned into as excessive as 57%.[379]

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and honours obtained by using Imran Khan

Prime Minister of Pakistan

Khan with US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House in July 2019

First 100 days

Further information: Swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan and First 100 days of Imran Khan's prime ministership

 On 17 August 2018, Khan secured 176 votes and became twenty second Prime Minister of Pakistan and took oath of office on 18 August 2018.[210][211] Khan ordered top degree reshuffling inside the usa's paperwork, which include the appointment of Sohail Mahmood as Foreign Secretary, Rizwan Ahmed as Maritime Secretary and Naveed Kamran Baloch as Finance Secretary.[212][213] His first primary appointment inside the Pakistan Army was that of Lieutenant General Asim Munir to the key slot of Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence.[214]

Khan introduced his cupboard quickly after taking oath, deciding on to maintain the Ministry of Interior to himself.[215] Though he later appointed Ijaz Ahmed Shah as indoors minister.[216] Many of his appointees had been formerly ministers at some point of Musharraf generation, although some were defectors from the left-wing People's Party.[217][218] In 2019 Khan dedicated to a first-rate cabinet reshuffle inside the ministries of indoors, finance, facts and planning.[219

Khan meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in November 2018

Khan with Ali Khamenei and Hassan Rouhani

Khan stated that no matter the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Pakistan ought to prioritize true family members with Saudi Arabia due to an financial crisis. He additionally delivered that U.S. Sanctions towards Iran are affecting neighboring Pakistan, stating "The closing thing the Muslim World needs is any other struggle. The Trump administration is moving closer to that route."[220] Khan has prioritised near ties with China,[221] saying he "did not recognise" a lot approximately awareness camps for China's Muslims.[222] Though Khan confirmed he had raised the problem "privately" in discussions with China.[223]

Khan was named certainly one of Time magazine's a hundred Most Influential People of 2019.[224]