Chairman PTI Imran Khan Niazi
(Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 13 November, 1952) is a Pakistani politician and
former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the
late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides
his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator and
Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of
Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.
Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its
captain intermittently throughout 1982-1992. After retiring from cricket at the
end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39,
Khan led his teammates to Pakistan’s first and only World Cup victory in 1992.
He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of
eight world cricketers to have achieved an ‘All-rounder’s Triple’ in Test
matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman of a political party
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) also known as PTI. He
represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to
October 2007.
Khan, through worldwide fundraising, has also help establish the Shaukat Khanum
Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in 1996 and Mianwali’s Namal College
in 2008.
Pakistan born and UK based filmmaker Faisal Aman Khan has taken initiative to do
a feature film “Kaptaan” based on the life of Imran Khan. The film releases on
February 2012.