HISTORY
Imran Khan born on 25 November 1952,in Lahore is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer. He played international
cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century and, after
retiring, entered politics. Besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket
commentator, Chancellor of the University
of Bradford and Founding Chairman of Board
of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research
Centre. Through worldwide fundraising, he founded Namal College, Mianwali in 2008.
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He was
Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, leading his country to victory at
the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and
serving as its captain intermittently
throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup in 1988, owing to
popular demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan Zia ul Haq to lead the team once
again. At the age of 39, Khan led his team to
In April 1996, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ("Movement for
Justice") political party was established and Khan became its chairman. He
represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to
October 2007, he was again elected on 11 May 2013, while his party gained 35
seats in the National Assembly. Global Post mentioned him third in
a list of nine world leaders of 2012 and recognized Khan as the face of
anti-drone movement in