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
We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.
The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.
Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
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.