Who is imran khan

Explainer Who is Imran Khan? From Oxford to cricketing and political success via a playboy lifestyle In 1992, the people of Pakistan celebrated as Khan led his country's cricket team to World Cup glory by telling them to fight like "cornered tigers". Three decades later his supporters are clashing with police as he appears in court on corruption charges. As a young man, he was educated at the University of Oxford where he graduated from Keble College in 1975. His international cricket career had begun four years earlier when he made his debut for Pakistan against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham. A controversial political figure Although he rose to international prominence as a cricketer in the 1970s, he is in the public eye today as the former prime minister of Pakistan. Advertisement He was elected in 2018 after running as a nationalist promising to fight corruption. However, in April 2022 he was The vote was called over claims of economic and political mismanagement, with opponents blaming him for failing to revive the economy and tackle corruption. Mr Khan accused his opponents of colluding with the US to remove him but provided no evidence. He also urged people to take to the streets to protest against his removal from power. Khan lawyer says arrest was 'state abduction' Why has he been arrested? A little over a year after being removed from office, Mr Khan A judge was asked to approve keeping the 70-year-old opposition leader in custody for up to 14 days. Mr Khan wil...

What is his background? Born to an affluent family in Lahore and educated at Oxford University, Khan, 70, first rose to international prominence in the late 1970s on the cricket pitch. In 1995, he married a British heiress, Ms Jemima Goldsmith. In 1996, Khan tried to parlay his popularity from cricket – he had led Pakistan in 1992 to its only World Cup triumph – into a political career, establishing his own party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or the Movement for Justice. As a politician, he portrayed himself as a reformer offering an alternative to Pakistan’s entrenched political dynasties. By 2011, he began to gather political momentum, drawing hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis to his rallies. Many were energised by his populist, anti-corruption and anti-American message. By then, Khan had embraced a pious form of Islam and sought to transform his personal image. In 2018, Khan got married for a third time, to his spiritual adviser, Ms Bushra Watto, who is also commonly known as Bushra Bibi. (His marriage to Ms Goldsmith had ended in divorce, and he was briefly married in 2015 to a broadcast journalist, Ms Reham Khan.) After winning the backing of military leaders, Khan became prime minister in 2018. Many of his rivals accused the military of manipulating the election in his favour – an accusation Khan and the military have both denied. He ushered in a new foreign policy, moving away from the United States and closer to Russia and China. Why was he arrested? Khan’s relative...