Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is the current Prime Minister of Pakistan and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Before entering politics, he was an international cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team, leading them to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Khan was born in Lahore in 1952 and played international cricket from 1971 to 1992, captaining Pakistan intermittently from 1982 to 1992. Considered one of Pakistan's greatest cricketers, he scored over 3,800 runs and took over 360 wickets in Test cricket. After retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan launched philanthropic efforts including founding cancer hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar in memory of his mother.
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is the current Prime Minister of Pakistan and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Before entering politics, he was an international cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team, leading them to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Khan was born in Lahore in 1952 and played international cricket from 1971 to 1992, captaining Pakistan intermittently from 1982 to 1992. Considered one of Pakistan's greatest cricketers, he scored over 3,800 runs and took over 360 wickets in Test cricket. After retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan launched philanthropic efforts including founding cancer hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar in memory of his mother.
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is the current Prime Minister of Pakistan and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Before entering politics, he was an international cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team, leading them to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Khan was born in Lahore in 1952 and played international cricket from 1971 to 1992, captaining Pakistan intermittently from 1982 to 1992. Considered one of Pakistan's greatest cricketers, he scored over 3,800 runs and took over 360 wickets in Test cricket. After retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan launched philanthropic efforts including founding cancer hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar in memory of his mother.
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