
He also presided over a shrinking current account deficit and limited defence spending to curtail the fiscal deficit. Īs Prime Minister, Khan addressed a balance of payments crisis with a bailout from the International Monetary Fund. In regional politics, PTI led a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2013, with Khan delegating this leadership to Mahmood Khan after being elected as Prime Minister in 2018. In the subsequent election PTI became the second-largest party by popular vote.

By winning a seat in the National Assembly in 2002, he served as an opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. Khan founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996, and serves as the party's chairman. Khan also served as the chancellor of the University of Bradford between 20, and was the recipient of an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012. Khan then continued his philanthropic efforts, expanding the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital to also include a research centre, and founded Namal College in 2008. He raised $25 million to set up a hospital in Lahore in 1994, and set up a second hospital in Peshawar in 2015. In 1991, he launched a fundraising campaign to set up a cancer hospital in memory of his mother. Considered one of cricket's greatest ever all-rounders, Khan registered 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 19, and won the Cricket World Cup, in what is Pakistan's first and only victory in the competition.

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He began his international cricket career at age 18, in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan was born to a Pashtun family in Lahore in 1952, and graduated from Keble College, Oxford in 1975. He was chancellor of the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014. Before entering politics, Khan was an international cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team, which he led to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He is also the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Sidhu is not right for India and Punjab deserves better than him, he said.Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi HI PP ( Urdu: عمران احمد خان نیازی, Pashto: عمران احمد خان نیازی born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who is the 22nd and current prime minister of Pakistan. Noting that Punjab is a border state where Pakistan tries to foment troubles, Patra said it needs a mature and patriotic leadership. He noted that Sidhu had praised Khan and Pakistan earlier too and had hugged its army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa during an earlier trip to the neighbouring country. There are no such people in India though, Patra added. It is being done for appeasement politics as the Congress still believes that there is a section in India which will be happy with praise for Pakistan. Referring to Congress leader Salman Khurshid's statement in his latest book, Patra said the opposition party sees terror groups such as ISIS and the Boko Haram in Hindutva while it finds a "bhai jaan" in Khan.

He claimed that there was a larger design at work, and Sidhu's comments were linked to a number of Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, criticising Hindutva. It is a serious matter of concern for India, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said as the ruling party seized on the issue to target the Congress. The BJP on Saturday hit out at the Congress after its Punjab unit president Navjot Singh Sidhu reportedly called Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan his "elder brother" during a trip to Kartarpur Sahib, alleging the opposition party sees terror groups like IS and Boko Haram in Hindutva while it finds a "bhai jaan" in Khan.Ī purported video of Sidhu being welcomed by a Pakistani official on behalf of Khan has gone viral in which the Congress leader is heard saying Khan was like a "bada bhai" to him and that he loved him a lot.

