Imran Khan

Imran Khan HI PP FRCPE
عمران خان
Khan in 2023
19th Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 18 August 2018 – 10 April 2022
President	Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi
Preceded by	Nasirul Mulk (caretaker)
Succeeded by	Shehbaz Sharif
Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
In office 25 April 1996 – 2 December 2023
Vice-Chairman	Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Gohar Ali Khan
Member of the National Assembly
In office 13 August 2018 – 21 October 2022
Preceded by	Obaidullah Shadikhel
Constituency	NA-95 Mianwali-I
Majority	113,523 (44.89%)
In office 19 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
Preceded by	Hanif Abbasi
Succeeded by	Sheikh Rashid Shafique
Constituency	NA-56 Rawalpindi-VII
Majority	13,268 (8.28%)
In office 10 October 2002 – 3 November 2007
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan
Constituency	NA-71 Mianwali-I
Majority	6,204 (4.49%)
Chancellor of the University of Bradford
In office 7 December 2005 – 8 December 2014
Preceded by	Betty Lockwood
Succeeded by	Kate Swann
Personal details
Born	Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi (1952-10-05) 5 October 1952 (age 72) Lahore, West Punjab, Pakistan (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Political party	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (since 1996)
Spouses	Jemima Goldsmith ​ ​ (m. 1995; div. 2004)​ Reham Khan ​ ​ (m. 2015; div. 2015)​ Bushra Bibi ​ (m. 2018)​
Children	2
Relatives	Family of Imran Khan
Residences	Bani Gala, Islamabad, Capital Territory Zaman Park, Lahore, Punjab
Education	Keble College, Oxford (B.A.)
Awards	See list
Signature
Nickname(s)	Kaptaan (Captain) Qaidi No. 804 (Prisoner No. 804)[1][2]
Personal information
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[3]
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	Pakistan (1971–1992)
Test debut (cap 88)	3 June 1971 v England
Last Test	2 January 1992 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 175)	31 August 1974 v England
Last ODI	25 March 1992 v England
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 88 175 382 425 Runs scored 3,807 3,709 17,771 10,100 Batting average 37.69 33.41 36.79 33.22 100s/50s 6/18 1/19 30/93 5/66 Top score 136 102* 170 114* Balls bowled 19,458 7,461 65,224 19,122 Wickets 362 182 1287 507 Bowling average 22.81 26.61 22.32 22.31 5 wickets in innings 23 1 70 6 10 wickets in match 6 0 13 0 Best bowling 8/58 6/14 8/34 6/14 Catches/stumpings 28/– 36/– 117/– 84/–
Medal record Men's Cricket Representing  Pakistan ICC Cricket World Cup Winner 1992 Australia and New Zealand World Championship of Cricket Runner-up 1985 Australia ACC Asia Cup Runner-up 1986 Sri Lanka Austral-Asia Cup Winner 1986 United Arab Emirates Winner 1990 United Arab Emirates
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 5 November 2014

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Personal Early life Electoral history Family Awards and honours Pakistan: A Personal History Indus Journey: A Personal View of Pakistan Pets Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Namal College Cricket career 1992 Cricket World Cup final International cricket five-wicket hauls 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan Premiership Government Oath of office First 100 days International trips Ehsaas Programme Kamyab Jawan Program Plant for Pakistan Raast Roshan Digital Account Naya Pakistan Housing & Development Authority Laws Pakistan Army Act, 2020 Pakistan Navy Act, 2020 Pakistan Airforce Act, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic No-confidence motion Constitutional crisis Lettergate Post-premiership Legal cases Al-Qadir Trust case Toshakhana reference cases Iddat case Protests 2022–2023 Pakistan political unrest 2022 Azadi March I 2022 Azadi March II 2023 Pakistani protests May 9 riots Assassination attempt Arrest Elections 1997 2002 2013 2018 Politics Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 2014 Tsunami March Inqilab March Ihtisab March 2024 Islamabad protests
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Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi^[a] (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He is the founder and former chairman of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from 1996 to 2023. He was the captain of the Pakistan national cricket team throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

Born in Lahore, Khan graduated from Keble College, Oxford. He began his international cricket career in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992, and won the 1992 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan's only victory in the competition. Considered one of cricket's greatest all-rounders, Khan was later inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Founding the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996, Khan won a seat in the National Assembly from his hometown of Mianwali, in the 2002 general election. PTI became the second-largest party by popular vote in the 2013 election, and five years later, running on a populist platform, PTI formed a coalition government with independents with Khan as prime minister. Khan's government addressed a balance of payments crisis with bailouts from the IMF. Limiting defence spending, he presided over a shrinking current account deficit, leading to some general economic growth, helped by policies increasing tax collection and investment. His government advocated for transforming Pakistan into a welfare state, committed to a renewable energy transition, launched Ehsaas Programme and the Plant for Pakistan initiative, and expanded the protected areas of Pakistan. He presided over the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused economic turmoil and rising inflation in the country. In April 2022, during a constitutional crisis following the Lettergate affair, Khan became the first Pakistani prime minister to be removed from office through a no-confidence motion.

In October that year, on account of the Toshakhana reference case, Khan was disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistan from taking office for one term of the National Assembly of Pakistan. In November, he survived an assassination attempt during a political rally in Wazirabad. In May 2023, Khan was arrested on corruption charges at the Islamabad High Court by paramilitary troops. Protests broke out throughout Pakistan, some of which escalated into violent riots. Khan was sentenced to a three-year jail term in August 2023 after being found guilty of misusing his premiership to buy and sell gifts in state possession. He was subsequently sentenced to ten years in prison in early 2024 for leaking state secrets and violating the Official Secrets Act in the Lettergate affair, and an additional seven years for breaching Islamic marriage laws with his wife; both of these sentences were overturned in mid-2024. Khan has since been charged on matters related to the 2023 riots and clashes between his supporters and police in September 2024.

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