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Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi HI PP (Urdu: ‫ ;عمران احمد خان نیازی‬born 5 October 1952) is the 22nd[n 1] and

current Prime Minister of Pakistan and the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). 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.
Khan was born to a Pashtun family in Lahore in 1952,[14] and graduated from Keble College,
Oxford in 1975. He began his international cricket career at age 18, in a 1971 Test series
against England.[14] Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982
and 1992,[15] and won the Cricket World Cup, in what is Pakistan's first and only victory in the
competition.[16] Considered one of Pakistan's greatest ever all-rounders, Khan registered 3,807 runs
and took 362 wickets in Test cricket[17] and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[15]
In 1991, he launched a fundraising campaign to set up a cancer hospital in memory of his mother.
He raised $25 million to set up a hospital in Lahore in 1994, and set up a second hospital
in Peshawar in 2015.[18] 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.[19][20] Khan also served as the chancellor of the University of Bradford between 2005 and 2014,
and was the recipient of an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012.[21][22

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