Imran Khan

Imran Khan Biography

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Imran Khan HI, PP, RCPE (Hon) (Urdu: عمران خان ‎) born Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی‎) on 25 November 1952, is a Pakistani politician, celebrity and former cricketer. He played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century and, after retiring, entered politics. Besides his political activism, Khan is also a prominent philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founding Chairman of Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre. Through worldwide fundraising, he founded the Mianwali's Namal College in 2008.According to Asia Society, Khan was voted as Asia’s Person of the Year 2012 scoring more than 88 per cent of the total vote casted. While according to the Pew Research Center in 2012 seven out of ten Pakistani respondents offered a favourable opinion about Khan, the survey also revealed that Khan enjoys incomparable popularity among the youth.

He was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, leading his country to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and serving as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup in 1988, due to popular public demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan Zia ul Haq to lead the team once again. At 39, Khan led his team to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
In April 1996, Khan eslablished a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice), and became the chairman of the party. He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007. On December 2012 GlobalPost ranked him the third in the top nine world leaders. It also recognized that Khan is the face of the anti-drone movement in Pakistan.

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