On October 5, 2023, Imran Khan—the most well-known cricket player in Pakistan and a former prime minister—will turn 71.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Khan’s party, has arranged special prayers outside the Adiala jail in an effort to ensure his safety. It has asked people to peacefully assemble at local mosques or outside the Rawalpindi jail complex tomorrow at 4:30 p.m.
The struggling PTI said that followers should commemorate Imran Khan by “doing what he does best—help others unconditionally!”
surrounded by Khan Imran
On August 5, Pakistan’s 22nd prime minister, Khan, was arrested for his Toshakhana conviction and has been incarcerated since.A federal capital court sentenced him to three years in jail for selling official items without permission.
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Ever since forming his political organization in April 1996, the well-known cricket player has denied any wrongdoing. He afterwards filed a complaint with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to contest the jail term.
The IHC had suspended Imran Khan’s three-year sentence on August 30, but the jail authorities had ordered him to be held on judicial remand in connection with a case involving a controversial US cipher by a special court recently established to hear cases under the Official Secrets Act. This was the reason Imran Khan remained in custody at Attock jail.
He has been actively involved in humanitarian activities as the founder of Mianwali, Numl College, and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.
A cricket career
Khan played cricket for the national team for twenty years in the latter part of the 20th century. As captain, he guided Pakistan’s cricket team to victory in the Cricket World Cup of 1992.
Up until his retirement in 1992, Khan was among Pakistan’s most accomplished cricket players.Only eight players in the world completed an “all-rounder’s triple” in Test matches, scoring 3,807 runs and 362 wickets.In 2010, the ICC inducted him into the Cricket Hall of Fame.
Different political views
Imran ran for a seat in the Pakistani National Assembly in 1997, running for the NA-94 Lahore and NA-53 Mianwali seats. He was unsuccessful, though, as the PML (N) candidates won both seats. In 2013, he formed a government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and led his party in the opposition in Sindh and Punjab.
Having said that, out of the 270 seats that were contested in 2018, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced that the Imran-led PTI had won the most seats in the national and provincial assemblies—116.
Khan’s Entire Life
The PTI chief has been in two unhappy marriages. He married British national Jemima Goldsmith in 1995, and the two parted ways in 2004.
He then married Reham Khan in 2015, but their union was short-lived—just 10 months.
Following that, Imran Khan married Bushra Bibi, a Pakpattan city-born Punjabi woman; the two are still together.
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