Imran Khan

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Imran Khan (2019)

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi ( Urdu عمران احمد خان نیازی; Pashtun عمران خان نیازی; * 5. October 1952 in Lahore ) is a Pakistani politician and former cricket and since the players on Aug. 18, 2018 Prime Minister of Pakistan . Since 1996 he has been chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, the Pakistan Movement for Justice and the top candidate for the office of Pakistani Prime Minister in the 2018 parliamentary elections in Pakistan . He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007 and again between 2013 and 2018. Before entering politics, Khan was the captain of thePakistani national cricket team and in this capacity won the 1992 Cricket World Cup for Pakistan. This success made him a national hero.

childhood and education

Khan is the son of Shaukat Khanum and Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer from Lahore . He grew up as the only son in the family with four sisters. The family in the Punjab province comes from the Pashtun tribe Niazi , sub-tribe Sherman Khel, from Mianwali . He himself also describes his identity as Pashtun, although he is only distantly related to this people, and discusses this affiliation at length in his book Warrior Race: A Journey Through the Land of the Tribal Pathans . His maternal family members include a large number of cricketers, including his cousins Javed Burki (* 1938) and Majid Khan (* 1941), both of whom were captains of the Pakistani national team.

Khan began his education at Aitchison College Lahore and the Cathedral School in Lahore. After middle school he went to England and attended the Royal Grammar School in Worcester , where he excelled in cricket. In 1972 he studied politics and economics at Keble College in Oxford and was captain of the Oxford cricket team in 1974 .

Cricket career

Imran Khan
Player information
Surname Imran Khan Niazi
Born November 25, 1952 (age 68)
Lahore , Pakistan
Batting style Right handed
Bowling style Right-handed almost bowler
Player role All-rounder
International games
National team Pakistan Pakistan
Test debut (cap 65) 3rd June 1971 v  EnglandEngland 
Last test 7th January 1992 v  Sri LankaSri Lanka 
ODI debut (cap 12) 31st August 1974 v  EnglandEngland 
Last ODI 5th October 1992 v  EnglandEngland 
National teams
Years team
1969-1971 Lahore
1971-1976 Worcestershire County Cricket Club
1973-1975 Oxford University Cricket Club
1975-1981 Pakistan International Airlines
1977-1988 Sussex County Cricket Club
1984-1985 New South Wales Blues
Career statistics
Game form test ODI FC LA
Games 88 175 382 425
Runs (total) 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
High score 136 102 * 170 114 *
Balls 19,458 7.461 65.224 19.122
Wickets 362 182 1.287 507
Bowling Average 22.81 26.61 22.32 22.31
5 wickets in innings 23 1 70 6th
10 wickets in play 6th - 13th -
Best bowling performance 8/58 6/14 8/34 6/14
Catches / stumpings 28 / - 36 / - 117 / - 84 / -
Source: ESPNCricinfo , December 24, 2011

Sixteen-year-old Khan's debut in first-class cricket in Lahore was rather unremarkable. At the beginning of the 1970s he played for the teams in his hometown: Lahore A (1969/70), Lahore B (1969/70), Lahore Greens (1970/71) and finally Lahore (1970/71). Khan was a player on the Oxford cricket team from 1973 to 1975 and captained the university team in 1974. In Worcestershire , where he played county cricket from 1971 to 1976 , he was rated only as the average medium pace bowler . During this decade, Khan also played for other cricket teams, including Dawood Industries (1975/76) and Pakistan International Airlines (from 1975/76 to 1980/81). In 1983 he went to Sussex and played there until 1988.

In 1971 Khan made his debut in the Test of cricket against England in Birmingham . Three years later he made his debut in a One-Day International , also against England in Nottingham, and subsequently took part in the 1975 Cricket World Cup . After graduating from Oxford and the expiry of his employment in Worcestershire, he returned to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent place in his national team with the games against New Zealand and Australia since the 1976/77 season .

Khan's bowling stats on Test Cricket for the course of his entire cricket career from 1971 to 1992.

After the games in Australia, he visited the West Indies cricket team , where he Tony Greig met the him for Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket took them under contract. Under the care of John Snow and Mike Procter , he changed his bowling style from the javelin-like movement of the early 1970s to a sideways stance where the chest and hips form a 90-degree angle to the batsman when the ball is thrown . His reputation as one of the toughest bowlers in the world arose when he took third place in an almost bowling competition in Perth in 1978 at 139.7 km / h behind Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding , but ahead of Dennis Lillee , Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts finished.

Khan achieved the all-rounders triple (3,000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 tests, the second best number after Ian Botham , who needed 72 tests. He continues to hold the second best batting average of 61.86 as a batsman in 6th position in the batting order in test matches. In January 1992 he played his last test match for Pakistan against Sri Lanka in Faisalabad . His last one-day international was the historic final of the 1992 Cricket World Cup against England in Melbourne , which can be seen as the culmination of Khan's career.

Khan ended his career with 88 test matches, 126 innings and 3807 runs (corresponding to a batting average of 37.69), including six centuries and 18 half-centuries . His highest score is 136 runs. As a bowler in test matches, he scored 362 wickets, making him the first Pakistani and fourth bowler ever to achieve this number. In ODIs, his best bowling is 6 wickets for 14 runs. Khan retired permanently from cricket in September 1992, six months after the 1992 World Cup final.

The time as the captain of the Pakistani national team

At the height of his career in 1982, thirty-year-old Khan took over from Javed Miandad as the captain of the Pakistani national cricket team . In the second game of the Pakistani team with captain Khan, he led them to their first victory in 28 years on English soil, at Lord’s .

Khan's first year as captain laid the foundation for his reputation as a fast bowler and an all-rounder. In 1981/82 he achieved the best bowling of his career in test matches with eight wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka in Lahore . In 1982 he led both bowling and batting statistics in a series of three test matches against England with 21 wickets and a batting average of 56. Later that year, with 40 wickets and a bowling average of 13.95 in six test matches, he showed a highly recognized performance in a home series against the strong Indian cricket team . At the end of this series in 1982/83, Khan had scored 88 wickets in 13 test matches after a year as captain.

However, the test series against India resulted in a stress fracture in his shin in Khan that kept him from cricket for more than two years. Only a new type of treatment, financed by the Pakistani government, led to his recovery and so he was able to celebrate a successful comeback in international cricket in the last half of the 1984/85 season at the end of 1984.

In 1987 Khan led his Pakistani side to their first test series win in India, followed by their first Pakistani win in England that same year. During the 1980s, his team also scored three notable draws against the West Indies. India and Pakistan jointly hosted the Cricket World Cup in 1987, but neither team made it through the semi-finals. At the end of the World Cup, Khan retired from international cricket. In 1988 he was asked by the President of Pakistan , General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq , to return to the role of captain, and on January 18, 1988, he announced his decision to return to the team.

Shortly after his return as captain, he took Pakistan on a victorious tour of the West Indies that he remembers as his proudest moment in cricket. He achieved 23 wickets in 3 test matches and was named the 1988 series player against the West Indies. He later recalls: “I was 35 and not very fit, we had a pretty weak team and then I got 11 wickets in the first test. That was the last time I bowled really well. ”As captain, Khan played a total of 48 test matches, 14 of which were won by Pakistan, 8 were lost and the remaining 26 were drawn. He continued to play 139 ODIs with 77 wins, 57 losses and one draw.

Winning the World Cup

Melbourne Cricket Ground on the final day of the 1992 Cricket World Cup

The climax of Khan's career as a captain and cricketer came when he led Pakistan's national team to victory in the ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 1992 . Since his team only had a weak stroke line-up, Khan praised himself as a batsman in order to give the line-up together with Javed Miandad a stability. Accordingly, his contributions as a bowler to this game were minimal. In the last game, at the age of 39, Khan scored the highest number of runs of all Pakistani batsmen and took the last wicket to win himself. The Pakistani national cricket team won the final against England with 22 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground decide.

Controversy

Batsman Allan Lamb and former English captain and legendary all-rounder Ian Botham claimed that Khan described them as "racist, uneducated and classless" in India Today . Khan defended himself and replied that he had been misquoted. He only defended himself after he once admitted to manipulating a ball in a county match 18 years earlier.

In 1994, Khan admitted that during Test Matches he "occasionally roughened the side of the ball and raised the seam". He added, “I've only used an object once. When I played Hampshire with Sussex in 1981, the ball wouldn't cut at all. I had the 12th man bring me a bottle cap and then the ball fluttered a lot ”. Khan won what the judge described as an "exercise in futility" with a majority decision of the jury of 10: 2.

Charity work

For the first four years after retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan devoted himself almost entirely to social work. In 1991 he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust , a foundation that bears the name of his mother, Shaukat Khanum. As his foundation's first project, Khan built Pakistan's first and only cancer clinic. The necessary 25 million US dollars were collected by Khan as donations and funds worldwide. In memory of his mother who died of cancer , the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center opened in Lahore on December 29, 1994 as a charitable cancer clinic that provides 75 percent of treatments for free. Khan, as chairman of the clinic, tries to raise funds for the operation of the clinic with the help of celebrities such as Sushmita Sen , Elizabeth Hurley and many members of the Indian cricket team . During the 1990s, Khan served as UNICEF Special Envoy in support of health and vaccination programs in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Khan is currently working on two other social projects. He is building another cancer clinic in Karachi , using his successful clinic in Lahore as a model. He also supports the establishment of Namal College , a technical college in the Mianwali District , which is being developed in cooperation with the University of Bradford from the United Kingdom . Namal College was funded by the Mianwali Development Trust, of which Khan is the founder, and became a partner institution of Bradford University in 2005 with the signing of the Collaboration Agreement by Imran Khan and the University's Vice Chancellor Professor Chris Taylor.

When in London, Khan also works for Lord's Taverners , a charity promoting cricket among young people.

Political career

Imran Khan at the conference “Rule of Law: The Case of Pakistan” of the Heinrich Böll Foundation on November 26th, 2009 in Moabit , Berlin .
Imran Khan (2007)

A few years after retiring as a cricketer, Khan entered active politics, admitting that he never participated in an election before running for office himself. His political agenda was influenced by Lieutenant General Hamid Gul , the former head of Inter-Services Intelligence , known for his support in the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and his anti-American stance . Khan founded his own political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in April 1996 , which ran with the slogan and vision of "justice, humanity and self-respect".

In the 1997 election, neither Khan nor other PTI candidates were able to win a mandate. The Pakistani press reported that Khan's campaign was funded by his then-father-in-law, Sir James Goldsmith, to the tune of £ 5 million. Khan denied this, however. In the following parliamentary election in October 2002, the PTI received 0.8 percent of the vote and thus one of 272 seats to be allocated in this election. The only elected MP for the PTI was Khan himself, who entered the National Assembly for the Mianwali constituency . As a deputy, Khan was represented on two committees of the National Assembly: the Standing Committee on Kashmir and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. His areas of interest in legislation were foreign policy, educational policy and justice.

In June 2007, the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Sher Afghan Khan Niazi, and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, independently of one another, filed motions against Khan to be expelled from the National Assembly for moral misconduct. Both motions, based on Articles 62 and 63 of the Pakistani Constitution, were denied on September 5th.

On October 2, 2007, Khan resigned from his seat in parliament along with 85 other MPs in protest against the presidential election planned for October 6. The President of Pakistan is elected by the members of the National Assembly, and some members of this House of Parliament, including Khan, believed that General Pervez Musharraf's re-election efforts were against the constitution while Musharraf retained the post of army chief . Khan and the PTI, along with other parties, boycotted the elections on February 18, 2008 because they did not consider the elections to be constitutional. Of Nawaz Sharif the PTI were offered five seats in the National Assembly, Khan rejected this offer but from and supported rather the reinstatement of the recently deposed constitutional judges.

ideology

Khan's political platform and statements are based on

Khan attributes his decision to enter politics to a spiritual awakening that began in the last few years of his cricket career through his conversations with a mystic of Sufism . “I never drank or smoked, but I went to parties often enough. There has been no progress in my spiritual development, ”he told the Washington Post . As a member of the National Assembly, he sometimes voted with the bloc of religious hardliners such as the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal party . In 2002, Khan supported the party leader of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal , Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman , against Musharraf's candidate for the office of prime minister. Rehman is a cleric who supports the Taliban and called for holy war against the United States .

Khan told the UK's Daily Telegraph in 2007, "I want Pakistan to be a welfare state and a real democracy with the rule of law and an independent judiciary." go, and the dismantling of overstaffed bureaucracy, whereby the vacant employees should also work as teachers. "We need decentralization and more decision-making power at the grassroots," Khan told the BBC in 1998. In June 2007, he publicly disapproved of the accolade of Indian-born author Salman Rushdie . He said, "Western civilization should have paid attention to the injuries that the writer has inflicted on the Muslim community with his controversial book The Satanic Verses ."

criticism

Khan was dismissed as a political lightweight in the ranks and among political commentators. His critics claimed that the large number of visitors to his events were only drawn in by his fame as a cricketer and that he was perceived by the public as an entertainer rather than a serious political figure. The lack of success in achieving broad political influence and building a national movement has been attributed by commentators and observers to his naivete and lack of political maturity.

The accusation of hypocrisy and opportunism is repeatedly raised against Khan, especially in view of his loud criticism of President Musharraf after he supported him in his 1999 military coup . In a 2002 column entitled “Will the Real Imran Please Stand Up” , the Pakistani columnist Amir Zia quotes a PTI party official from Karachi: “Even we find it difficult to recognize the real Imran. When in Pakistan he wears the salwar kamiz and preaches desi and religious values, but it changes completely when he associates with the elite in Britain or elsewhere in the west. "

Opposition to Musharraf and Bush

Khan supported General Pervez Musharraf's military coup in 1999 , but condemned Musharraf's presidency a few months before the 2002 general election. Many political commentators and his opponents described this change of opinion as opportunistic. “I regret my support for the referendum. I was made to understand that once the general came to power, he would begin cleaning up the corrupt parts in the system. But that wasn't the case at all. ”Khan explained later. During the 2002 election campaign, he turned against Pakistan's logistical support for the United States' armed forces in their war in Afghanistan. At a campaign rally in Kamar Mushani , he told the crowd that their country had become a "servant of America." In the later election of the prime minister, he voted in parliament for an Islamist supporting the Taliban and against Musharraf's candidate.

On May 6, 2005, Khan was one of the first Muslim leaders to criticize the alleged desecration of the Qur'an in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention center , following a 300-word article in Newsweek on April 30 . Khan condemned the desecration at a press conference and demanded that General Musharraf seek an apology from American President George W. Bush for the incident. Khan was a vocal critic of the alliance between Pakistan and the United States, particularly in the war on terror . In 2006 he shouted: “Musharraf is sitting there licking George Bush's shoes!” He has also criticized other leaders from the Muslim world for their support for the Bush administration: “They are puppets who rule over the Muslim world. We want a sovereign Pakistan. We don't want a president who is George Bush's poodle. ”During George Bush's visit to Pakistan in March 2006, Khan was placed under house arrest after threatening to organize a protest against the American president's implicit support for a dictatorship in Pakistan. Khan was picked up in a restaurant in Islamabad and locked in his home.

House arrest

On November 3, 2007, shortly after the state of emergency was declared in Pakistan , Khan was placed under house arrest by the Musharraf government . After the imposition of house arrest, Khan demanded the death penalty for Musharraf, whom he accused of high treason . The following day, November 4th, he managed to escape from his father's house in Lahore and go underground. He finally reappeared on November 14th to spark student protests at the University of the Punjab . At the rally, Khan was captured by Jamaat-e-Islami students , held at the nearby High Energy Physics Center for about an hour, and then handed over to the police at the university gate. While he was subsequently in police custody, he was charged with an anti-terror law charge for allegedly inciting people to raise arms, inciting civil disobedience and sowing hatred.

As prime minister

As Pakistan's head of government, Khan has developed a close partnership with Pakistan's armed forces , which have a strong voice in the country's politics. Under his mediation, the United States and the Taliban entered into peace talks. Previous cases of corruption were dealt with during his reign.

Private

He was married to Jemima Khan , daughter of British-French billionaire James Goldsmith , between 1995 and 2004 . The sons Sulaiman (* 1996) and Qasim (* 1999) result from the marriage. Before that, he was in a relationship with the then MTV presenter Kristiane Backer from 1992 to 1995 , a relationship that was kept secret from the public. In January 2015 he married the journalist Reham Khan. In October 2015, he announced that the couple would divorce. In February 2018 he married Bushra Wattoo, his Sufi teacher who appears veiled in public.

Works

  • Imran Khan, Patrick Murphy: Imran: The Autobiography of Imran Khan . Pelham Books, London, 1983, ISBN 0-7207-1489-3 .
  • Imran Khan, Photographs by Mike Goldwater: Indus Journey: A Personal View of Pakistan . Chatto & Windus, London, 1990, ISBN 0-7011-3527-1 .
  • Imran Khan: All Round View . Mandarin, 1992, ISBN 0-7493-1499-0 .
  • Imran Khan, photographs by Pervez A. Khan: Warrior Race: A Journey Through the Land of the Tribal Pathans . Chatto & Windus, London, 1993, ISBN 978-0-7011-3890-5 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Imran Khan (politician)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  5. The Oxford Student: The Interview: Anything he Khan't do? ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1999. Retrieved November 5, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oxfordstudent.com
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  14. a b The Sunday times: What I do now fulfills me like never before . Accessed November 5, 2007.
  15. Sushmita's painting fetches Rs 25 lakh! Retrieved November 5, 2007.
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  17. shaukatkhanum.org.pk: Indian cricketers visit Imran's cancer hospital . Retrieved November 5, 2007.
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  39. Miriam Hollstein: How MTV diva Kristiane Backer came to Mecca , Welt Online . June 3, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2012. 
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predecessor Office successor

Nasirul Mulk
Prime Minister of Pakistan
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