Imran Khan

Imran Khan

        Imran khan is a man of powerful intentions; he is a retired cricket player and a politician of Pakistan who is leading a political party named as Tehreek-e-insaaf in Pakistan. He was born in the heart of Pakistan Lahore, Punjab. He played cricket for Pakistan from 1971- 1992.Imran’s life has all the shades of life happiness, success, grief, ups and downs, most of the time he had been the part of scandals.

EDUCATION:

      Imran khan was born in Lahore in 1952 on 25 November. He has got 4 sisters. Education is the symbol of Imran’s family and according to this custom of Imran’s family his father decided to send his beloved son to United Kingdom for higher education. In the beginning he took education from Aitchison College and the Cathedral School in Lahore after completing middle he went abroad to get further education he took addmission in Royal Grammar school, Worcester, United Kingdom. He carried out cricket side by side his studies, he got registered for graduation at Keble College, Oxford in 1972 to study Philosophy, Economics and politics.

Cricket:

     Imran Khan started cricket at the age of sixteen in Lahore. He started playing cricket for his home teams in Lahore, Lahore A, Lahore B and Lahore Greens.From1969 to 1971 he continued to play for these three teams. Then he became the part of the Oxford's Blues Cricket team he played for this team from 1973 till 1975. Earlier, he was only considered as an average medium pace bowler. He also played cricket at Wocestershire from 1971 to 1976.Not only this but he had also been the representative of several otherteams in Pakistan such as he fullfiled his duty as a captain for Pakistan internation airlines meanwhile he also played for Dawood Industries in 1975 and 1976.

Imran was playing in London on the behalf of Pakistani team. In 1976 he came back toPakistan and he secured a place in Pakistan’s national cricket team on homeland.After 1977 he went to play for sussex. Khan made every one impressed by his magical bowling, he became very popular in the wolrd of cricket. Imran khan  again started palying for Pakistani national cricket team. Imran put bowling aside and started concentrating on his batting because of some injury. In 1992 playing against England he won World cup and created a new  history  for Pakistan those days were the end of his career. Finally after winning the World he said goodbye to cricket. At the end of his career he had 362 wickets and 3807 runs in test matches.

Cancer Hospital:

     In 1984 Imran’s mother got a serious danger of life because of cancer which was considered very difficult to be cured in Pakistan and only rich people can afford the treatment. Imran was serving for her mother in her last days and Imran was her dyng bit by bit because of cancer but Imran couldn’t do anything for her nother. After the demise of Imran’s mother Shaukat khanum, Imran decided to build a hospital in Lahore for poor people who are unable to get proper treatment of cancer.He started a worldwide charity compaign to which the whole world responded him and he became able to buil Shaukat khanum memorial cancer hospital in Lahore in the memory of his beloved late mother.Imran married to jemima Goldsmith in 1995 in Paris in a muslim marriage cermony,he got 2 sons after some years they decided to get apart and Jemima went back to london after getting divorced.

While raising funds for cancer hospital Imran Khan faced many difficulties and he felt the pain of poor people wholiv in Pakistan and suffering from the cruelty of government and corrupted system, when Imran became the minister of Tourism he made some strategies for tourism and finally in 1996 he Inaugurated Tehreeke-e-insaaf a political party against the corruption and corrupted system of Pakistan.Imran’s fighting is aginst the corruptin in Pakistab politics.In 1997 his party failed to secured seats in election.In 2008 election Imran decided to Boycott the election because he is fighting against dictatorship of Musharraf.In the long and short Imran is a man of thoughts, he has got high and firm intentions.

Imran Khan