imran khan

imran khan was born on november 25 1952.his full name is imran khan niazi .his father name was shaukut khanum and mothers name wasikramullah khan a civil engineer in lahore pakistan.he grew up as the one and only son and four siters in the family.he started his education at Aitchison College and the Cathedral School in Lahore. After middle school, he left Pakistan to study at the Royal Grammar School in Worcester, United Kingdom, where he excelled at cricket. He then went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics as an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford in 1972, graduating with a second-class degree in Politics and a third in Economics. .and is was a formal cricketer and now a political.khan played for the pakistan cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and lead the pakistan cricket team as a captain to winning his country's first and only World Cup victory in 1992.he made a record of 3807 runs and 326 wickets in test cricket.he is known as the finest all rounder of the modern history of the game.khan then retired in 1992 and stsrted doing charity work. By 1991, he had founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charity organization bearing the name of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum. As the Trust's maiden endeavor, Khan established Pakistan's first and only cancer hospital, constructed using donations and funds exceeding $25 million, raised by Khan from all over the world.inspired by the memory of khans mother who died of cancer the shakut khanum memmorail center a charitable cancer hospital with 75 percent free care, opened in Lahore on December 29, 1994.khan is currently serving as the chairman of the hospital and continues to raise funds with the help of celebrities such as Sushmita Sen Elizabeth Hurley and several members of the Indian cricket team.During the 1990s, Khan also served as UNICEF's Special Representative to support health and immunization programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.Currently, Khan has been working on two major social projects. He is building another cancer hospital in Karachi, using his successful Lahore institution as a model. He is also helping establish a technical college in the Mianwali District, called Namal College, with the collaboration of University of Bradford in UK. The Namal College is being built by the Mianwali Development Trust (MDT), and was made an associate college of the University of Bradford in December 2005 when Imran Khan and the University's vice-chancellor, Professor Chris Taylor, signed a memorandum of understanding. While in London, Khan also works with the Lord’s Taverners, a cricket charity.after a few years of his proessoinal cricket career he joined politics.he 1996 he made his own political party named Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf .fives years later in the electoins in october 20 2002 the party won 0.8% of the popular vote and one out of 272 open seats. The only member of PTI to be elected was Khan himself, who ran from the small constituency of Mianwali. As an MP, Khan was part of two National Assembly committees.On November 3, 2007, Khan was put under house arrest by the Musharraf-led government, hours after the President declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. Khan had demanded the death penalty for Musharraf after the imposition of emergency rule, which he equated to "committing treason". The next day, on November 4, Khan managed to escape his house arrest, under which he was being held at his father's house in Lahore, and went into peripatetic hiding. He eventually came out of hiding on November 14, in order to launch a student protest at the University of the Punjab.At the rally, Khan was captured by students from the Jamaat-i-Islami political party, who held him in the nearby Centre for High Energy Physics for an hour and then handed him over to police at the university gates. In custody, he was charged under the Anti-terrorism act for allegedly inciting people to pick up arms, calling for civil disobedience, and for spreading hatred.[31]

Incarcerated in the Dera Ghazi Khan Jail, Khan's relatives had access to him and were able to meet him to deliver goods during his week-long stay in jail. On November 19, 2007, Khan let out the word through PTI members and his family that he had begun a hunger strike against President Musharraf's dismissal of federal judges, asking for the judiciary to be reinstated. The Deputy Superintendent of Dera Ghazi Khan Jail, however, denied this news, saying that Khan had bread, eggs and fruit for breakfast.Khan was one of the 3,000 political prisoners released from imprisonment on November 21, 2007.

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