As a boy, he was considered a quiet and "shy boy", who often kept to himself and wenner of "cricket worldcup".The head of Pakistan "Tehreek-e-Insaf" has now become the 22nd "prime minister of pakistan".

Imran Khan: Journey from School to Prime Ministership

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi was born on October 5, 1952 in a wealthy Pashtun family in Mianwali, Punjab. His family later settled in Lahore where he spent most of his youth.

Being the only son of his parents and the brother of 4 sisters, he was often said to be hot tempered. Imran Khan has always denied this allegation. In his boyhood, he was considered a quiet and shy boy who was often absorbed in himself. He was very fond of cricket even in school.

He also belonged to a great cricketer family. His two younger cousins, Javed Barki and Majid Khan, had captained Oxford and Pakistan before him.

Imran Khan studied at Aitchison College and then at the Cathedral School in Lahore. He then studied at the Royal Grammar School in the British city of Worcester. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Keble College, Oxford University.

The start of cricket

Following in the footsteps of his cousins, Imran Khan started playing cricket at the age of 13.

Initially he played for his college team and later for English county Worcester. He played his first match for the Pakistan national team at the age of 18 during the 1971 England series in Birmingham.

Soon he secured a permanent place in the team.

Like a true all-rounder, Imran Khan has consistently contributed effectively in all areas of the game thanks to his aggressive batting and swing skills.

Imran Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple in 75 Test matches, making him the second fastest after Ian Botham of the English cricket team.

He retired from cricket at the peak of his sports career after leading Pakistan to its first and last Cricket World Cup victory in 1992. By that time he had taken 362 wickets and scored 3807 runs in Test cricket.

Apart from his cricketing prowess, Imran Khan was also known for his popularity with women and his regularity in nightclubs.

British author Ivo Tennant in his book on artist Emma Sargent, daughter of renowned financial journalist Patrick Sargent, who alleged that she had a 4-year affair with Imran Khan from 1982 to 1986, referred to Imran Khan as 'the man of East and West. "The perfect combination," he says.

In 1987, after Imran Khan won Pakistan's first Test series against India, military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq offered him a position in the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) he founded. Imran Khan politely declined this offer.

Although Khan announced his retirement during the 1987 World Cup, he returned to cricket after repeated requests from Zia.

Welfare activities

After his de facto retirement from cricket after the 1992 World Cup, Imran Khan became an active philanthropist.

He campaigned to establish a first-of-its-kind cancer hospital in Pakistan where the needy would be treated free of charge.

It was named Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center after Imran Khan's mother who died of cancer. That was the time when Nawaz Sharif's first government made it clear that they were interested in making him a member of the ruling party PML.

Marriage to Jemima and politics

At that time, Imran Khan was 41 years old and now he had gradually started shedding his 'playboy' impression. He also had a spiritual mentor in the form of Mian Bashir who, as claimed by Imran Khan in his book Pakistan: A Personal History, pacified the complainant Jemima Goldsmith by telling him her three secret wishes.

James Goldsmith's daughter Jemima married Imran Khan at the age of 21 in Paris in 1995.

The couple gave birth to two children Sulaiman and Qasim and divorced after 9 years together. Imran Khan says in his book, "The 6 months before the divorce and the 6 months after it were the most difficult period of my life."

In his statement released at the time of the divorce, he said, "Jemimah tried her best to blend in here, but because of my political life, it was difficult for her to adjust to life in Pakistan."

In 1993, Imran Khan was appointed Tourism Ambassador during the caretaker government of Moin Qureshi. The rank of this post was equal to that of a minister. He left this post three months later when the Qureshi government was dissolved and new elections were held.

In late 1994, he joined hands with former ISI chief General Hameed Gul and Muhammad Ali Durrani. Durrani was at that time leading a young faction, Pasban, which broke away from Jamaat-e-Islami.

His plan was to launch, in his words, a 'pressure group'. Instead of a political party, it was supposed to function as a civil society whose objective was to monitor the actions of the government.

In the February 1995 issue of Herald magazine, the trio expressed how the group was intended to be a social movement rather than a political party. He also predicted it to become a "third force" and "the country's first middle class movement".

The pressure group was never formed. According to Zaigham Khan, a Herald staff member who reported on the trio's plan, Imran Khan immediately became uncomfortable with the idea of ​​looking like an effigy in the hands of General Hameed Gul.

By the end of the same year (1995), his friends, including a retired lieutenant general, had persuaded him to start a political career.

Formation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and protest demonstrations

On April 25, 1996, Imran Khan founded his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). In the 1997 general elections, which were PTI's first elections, the party did not win any seats.

A few years later retired soldiers left the party saying that Imran Khan does not listen to anyone. After a few more years, a few more experienced politicians left the party for the same sentiments.

In 1999, Imran Khan began supporting General Pervez Musharraf and in the 2002 general elections held under the former military dictator, his party won one seat, Imran Khan's seat.

But Khan's party pressured him to resign from his seat in the National Assembly after the 2007 Karachi massacre. The party later boycotted the 2008 elections, saying that an elected parliament under a Kurdish president had no status.

Musharraf's crackdown on the Lawyers' Movement in 2007 also saw Imran Khan briefly arrested when he tried to lead a demonstration at Punjab University. His was one of the voices demanding an investigation into Benazir Bhutto's murder.

His rallies in Karachi and Lahore drew huge crowds, rivaled only by Benazir's homecoming rallies in the 1980s.

But despite campaigning vigorously in the 2013 elections, the party failed to secure a majority at the center and sat in opposition with 32 seats. But it was able to form a government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by forming an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami.

For the next 4 years, Imran Khan and PTI protested against election rigging and government corruption and demanded accountability of politicians.

In 2014, Imran Khan took a long march to the capital and staged the longest sit-in against the alleged rigging of the 2013 elections. He held the Muslim League (N) government of Nawaz Sharif responsible for this rigging. For the sit-in, he joined hands with Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Tahir-ul-Qadri, who was protesting for justice for the victims of the Model Town tragedy.

The sit-in lasted for 126 days, but was called off after the Taliban attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014. Veteran politician Javed Hashmi, who served as party president until his resignation, accused Imran Khan of conniving with "non-political forces" and "script writers" who, according to him, are the government's They were plotting against.

The former PTI leader even alleged that senior party members were not convinced that the 2013 elections in Punjab were rigged on a large scale, despite the PTI's public stand during its historic sit-in in 2014. It was because of widespread rigging that his party lost. No evidence was ever presented in favor of these allegations.

A few days after the sit-in, Imran Khan married journalist Reham Khan in a simple ceremony on 8 January 2015 at his Bani Gala residence.

Although their wedding received a lot of public attention, it was also criticized for being held just days after the terrorist attack on the Army Public School that killed more than 140 people, mostly children.

The relationship lasted only 9 months and Imran Khan called it "the biggest mistake of his life". Reham Khan later also wrote a revealing book in which she gave details about the period of her marriage to Imran Khan. The book came out a few days before the 2018 general elections.

But just when PTI seemed to be losing its popularity, the Panama Papers scandal came to light in April 2016. Imran Khan, who had described the leaks as "God-sent", began pressuring Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to account for his wealth.

In the following months, the government and the opposition remained deadlocked over the terms of reference of the commission investigating the allegations against the Sharif family.

In June 2016, PTI filed a disqualification petition against Nawaz Sharif in the Election Commission of Pakistan for allegedly concealing assets.

Subsequently, several petitions were filed in the Supreme Court against the Sharif family, the most important of which were from PTI, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Awami Muslim League.

Imran Khan asked his supporters to continue protesting against corruption and then envisioned another long anti-corruption sit-in dubbed 'Islamabad Lockdown'.

But the sit-in proposed on November 2 never took place as the day before the Supreme Court heard the Panama Gate petitions and sought TORs to investigate the allegations.

The Panama saga finally ended on July 6, 2018 when the accountability court sent Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, and son-in-law Captain Safdar to jail for corruption.

But the two years between the leaks and the final verdict were fraught with divisive politics and litigation, with cases upon cases filed against several political leaders for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile, the PTI chief was facing disqualification in the Supreme Court on a petition filed by Muslim League (N)'s Hanif Abbasi, but the court dismissed the case against Imran Khan in December 2017 after lengthy hearings. His close aide Jahangir Tareen was declared ineligible. Imran Khan is still facing several cases.

Two of the cases are in the Islamabad and Peshawar High Courts seeking his disqualification on various grounds, including the non-appearance of his alleged daughter Terrian White in the nomination papers for the 2018 general elections. Apart from this, the case against him in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa NAB for the illegal use of the helicopter of the provincial government between 2013 and 2018, and the attack on the PTV headquarters in the capital during the Islamabad sit-in in the Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad in 2014. exists from

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Marriage to a spiritual mentor

Mr Khan married to his spiritual mentor Bushra Bibi in 2018. This was Imran Khan's third marriage. Bushra Bibi belongs to Pakpattan and Imran Khan used to visit her regularly for two years. This marriage took place simply in Lahore.

The mystery and rumors swirling around Imran Khan's fully veiled third wife suggest that she is behind Imran Khan's complete conversion to Sufism and his attainment of the prime ministership. But all these are just guesses.

A month before the July 25 general elections, Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi were seen offering prayers at Baba Fariduddin Ganj Shukar's shrine in Pakpattan.

Imran Khan in power

In the July 25 general elections, PTI won an unprecedented 116 seats in the National Assembly. Other parties called the elections rigged. Imran Khan won all the five seats on which he contested.

After joining the independent candidates in the National Assembly and nominating their own candidates on the reserved seats, and vacating the additional seats won by Imran Khan and two other members of the National Assembly, their tally reached 152. But the spokesperson of the party claimed that with the help of its allies, the party has the support of more than 180 members of the National Assembly.

As soon as the results of the elections started coming in and PTI emerged as the majority party, Imran Khan was called the 'next Prime Minister' while the party chief also gave a victory speech the day after the elections.

Pm Imran Khan said in his speech, "I want to make it clear to people why I entered politics. Politics could not give me anything. I only wanted to make Pakistan the country that my leader Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had dreamed of." had seen