Imran Khan
Imran Khan
Imran Khan Niazi MP, better known as Imran Khan, is a Pakistani politician, former cricketer, philanthropist, cricket commentator and the former chancellor of the University of Bradford. He is also founder of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and the Namal College, Mianwali. Khan played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century and, after retiring, entered politics...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 November 1952
CityLahore, Pakistan
CountryPakistan
That's why, in spite of being defeated regularly in elections, I am not leaving the field. It's tough, but then I love challenging tasks.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
I guess this is where I feel I was probably different from other cricketers. I was not satisfied, so I was always pushing myself harder.
Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience
People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.
The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.