Niazi, Imran Ahmed Khan HI(M) PP (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022, when he was deposed in a no-confidence vote. He is the founder and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), one of the country’s main political parties.
In international policy, he dealt with border disputes with India and increased ties with China and Russia, while relations with the US soured. After the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021, Khan praised the Taliban on their success in the 2001-2021 conflict and asked the world community to support their new administration. He was also sympathetic to the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP), and claimed that his administration was negotiating a peace accord with the TTP with the assistance of the Afghan Taliban. Khan became the country’s first prime leader to be removed by a no-confidence motion in parliament on April 10, 2022.
Imran Khan Niazi, born in Lahore, on 5th October 1952, in the family of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, and his wife Shaukat Khanum, as the only son of his parents. The family belonged to the tribe of Niazi Shermankhel. He get his early education at the Cathedral School in Lahore, the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket, and later at Aitchison College, Lahore. In 1972, he enrolled to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a second-class degree in Politics and a third in Economics. He was the former cricketer of Pakistani cricket team and played for two decades and even he led his teammates to the first and only Cricket World Cup in the year 1992. Before getting retirement from cricket he started his political career and laid founded the political party Pakistan Tahreek-Insaaf (PTI) and became his chairman.
He also established a charity Hospital, bearing the name of his mother, named Shaukat Khanam Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center in 1996. For this purpose he started a campaign of fund raising all over the world and after such a hard work he was able to laid the foundation of this hospital. He gathered over 25 million donations and funds.
On 16 May 1996, he was married to jemima Marcelle Goldsmith, but the marriage of Imran khan could not run long and he divorced Jemima in 2004, because it was difficult for jemema to adapt the life style of Pakistan and Imran Khan could not give time to her from his tough schedule.
Imran Khan Niazi, born in Lahore, on 25 November 1952, in the family of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, and his wife Shaukat Khanum, as the only son of his parents. The family belonged to the tribe of Niazi Shermankhel. He get his early education at the Cathedral School in Lahore, the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket, and later at Aitchison College, Lahore. In 1972, he enrolled to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a second-class degree in Politics and a third in Economics. He was the former cricketer of Pakistani cricket team and played for two decades and even he led his teammates to the first and only Cricket World Cup in the year 1992. Before getting retirement from cricket he started his political career and laid founded the political party Pakistan Tahreek-Insaaf (PTI) and became his chairman.
He also established a charity Hospital, bearing the name of his mother, named Shaukat Khanam Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center in 1996. For this purpose he started a campaign of fund raising all over the world and after such a hard work he was able to laid the foundation of this hospital. He gathered over 25 million donations and funds.
On 16 May 1996, he was married to jemima Marcelle Goldsmith, but the marriage of Imran khan could not run long and he divorced Jemima in 2004, because it was difficult for jemema to adapt the life style of Pakistan and Imran Khan could not give time to her from his tough schedule.
5th October 1952 (age 70)
Lahore, Pakistan
Jemima Khan (1995–2004)
Reham Khan (2015 - 2015)
Bushra Bibi (2018 - Present)
Islamabad
Politician
Philanthropist
Cricketer
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
Sulaiman
Qasim Khan
Keble College, Oxford
Islam