Imran Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born in 5 October 1952. He is a Pakistani politician and former international cricketer who is the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan.
He is also the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007, and again from 2013 to 2018. He played international cricket for two decades, and later developed philanthropic projects such as the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre and Namal College.
Khan was born to an upper-middle class Pashtun family in Lahore, Punjab, in 1952; he was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore, then the Royal Grammar School Worcester in Worcester, England, Oxford. He started playing cricket at the age of 13. Initially playing for his college and later for Worcestershire, Khan made his debut for the Pakistan national cricket team at the age of 18. After graduating from Oxford, he made his home debut for Pakistan in 1976, and played until 1992. He also served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992. He led Pakistan to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan's first and only victory in that competition.
He launched a fundraising campaign to set up a cancer hospital in memory of his mother. He raised $25 million to set up a hospital in Lahore in 1994, and later in 2015 a second hospital in Peshawar. Khan remains a prominent philanthropist and commentator, and served as the chancellor of Bradford University between 2005 and 2014 and was the recipient of an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012.
In April 1996, Khan founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. A centrist political party, and became the party's national leader. Khan contested for a seat in the National Assembly in October 2002 and served as an opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. He was again elected to the parliament in the 2013 elections, when his party emerged as the second largest in the country by popular vote.Khan served as the parliamentary leader of the party and led the third-largest block of parliamentarians in the National Assembly from 2013 to 2018. His party also led a coalition government in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the 2018 general elections, his party won the largest number of seats and defeated the ruling PML-N, bringing Khan to premiership and the PTI into federal government for the first time.
Prime Ministers of Imran Khanon 17 August 2018, Khan secured 176 votes and became 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan while his contender and leader of opposition Shehbaz Sharif received 96 votes. He took oath of office on 18 August 2018.On 18 August, he announced his cabinet appointments, choosing to keep the Ministry of Interior to himself. Khan soon ordered top level reshuffling in the country's bureaucracy.His first major appointment in the Pakistan Army was that of Lieutenant General Asim Munir to the key slot of Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence.
We’re gonna have a more transactional relationship…I’ll leave it up to the experts to decide if we should escalate [military action against Pakistan].” That’s US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in 2011 as he advocates US military action inside the sovereign territory of Pakistan.
“Earlier our (Pakistan-US) relations were transactional that if you give us this we will give you that and if you don’t give us this we will take that away from you.” That’s Lindsey Graham in Islamabad last week as he advocated replacing this transactional relationship with a strategic relationship based on free trade relations.
“Prime Minister Khan is the agent of change I’ve been looking for,” says Graham. Pakistan’s Prime Minister is making new friends and setting the record straight.
He’s dining with the visionary Mahathir Mohammad in Kuala Lumpur and driving Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nayhan in Islamabad as the Crown Prince of the UAE returns to Pakistan after 12 years. From there he’s off to Doha to meet the influential Emir of Qatar after flying off to Riyadh to meet the powerful Crown Prince, MBS. He’s receiving US diplomats and senators two at a time and signing deals in Beijing. When he’s at home in Islamabad, he schools the President of the USA on Twitter telling him to brush up on his history.
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born in 5 October 1952. He is a Pakistani politician and former international cricketer who is the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan.
He is also the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007, and again from 2013 to 2018. He played international cricket for two decades, and later developed philanthropic projects such as the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre and Namal College.
He launched a fundraising campaign to set up a cancer hospital in memory of his mother. He raised $25 million to set up a hospital in Lahore in 1994, and later in 2015 a second hospital in Peshawar. Khan remains a prominent philanthropist and commentator, and served as the chancellor of Bradford University between 2005 and 2014 and was the recipient of an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012.
In April 1996, Khan founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. A centrist political party, and became the party's national leader. Khan contested for a seat in the National Assembly in October 2002 and served as an opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. He was again elected to the parliament in the 2013 elections, when his party emerged as the second largest in the country by popular vote.Khan served as the parliamentary leader of the party and led the third-largest block of parliamentarians in the National Assembly from 2013 to 2018. His party also led a coalition government in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the 2018 general elections, his party won the largest number of seats and defeated the ruling PML-N, bringing Khan to premiership and the PTI into federal government for the first time.
Prime Ministers of Imran Khanon 17 August 2018, Khan secured 176 votes and became 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan while his contender and leader of opposition Shehbaz Sharif received 96 votes. He took oath of office on 18 August 2018.On 18 August, he announced his cabinet appointments, choosing to keep the Ministry of Interior to himself. Khan soon ordered top level reshuffling in the country's bureaucracy.His first major appointment in the Pakistan Army was that of Lieutenant General Asim Munir to the key slot of Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence.
We’re gonna have a more transactional relationship…I’ll leave it up to the experts to decide if we should escalate [military action against Pakistan].” That’s US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in 2011 as he advocates US military action inside the sovereign territory of Pakistan.
“Earlier our (Pakistan-US) relations were transactional that if you give us this we will give you that and if you don’t give us this we will take that away from you.” That’s Lindsey Graham in Islamabad last week as he advocated replacing this transactional relationship with a strategic relationship based on free trade relations.
“Prime Minister Khan is the agent of change I’ve been looking for,” says Graham. Pakistan’s Prime Minister is making new friends and setting the record straight.
He’s dining with the visionary Mahathir Mohammad in Kuala Lumpur and driving Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nayhan in Islamabad as the Crown Prince of the UAE returns to Pakistan after 12 years. From there he’s off to Doha to meet the influential Emir of Qatar after flying off to Riyadh to meet the powerful Crown Prince, MBS. He’s receiving US diplomats and senators two at a time and signing deals in Beijing. When he’s at home in Islamabad, he schools the President of the USA on Twitter telling him to brush up on his history.
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