Dirty politics with Dirty Harry

  Here are the highlights of Imran Khan's life story ¹ ² ³: Early Life: Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born on October 5, 1952, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan He comes from an affluent Pashtun family He was educated at elite schools in Pakistan and the UK Cricket Career: Imran Khan is a former cricketer and politician He led Pakistan to its first-ever Cricket World Cup title in 1992 He rose to popularity with his amazing talent as one of the finest cricketers Pakistan has ever produced He was chosen as the captain of Pakistan cricket team in 1982 Under his captaincy, Pakistan won 14 out of 48 test matches, losing 8 and 26 resulting in a draw Politics: In 1997, he entered politics by setting up his own party ‘Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’ (PTI) In 2018, his political party emerged as the largest party and formed a coalition government with the support of independents Khan served as the prime minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022 Personal Life: He is married to Bushra Maneka He has two sons, Q...

  Imran Khan Party Will Oppose Pakistani Elections, Suggests Prime Minister (Source: Bloomberg) In addition to announcing a prime minister candidate, Imran Khan's party promised to stage rallies against alleged vote-rigging in last week's polls as it attempts to establish a coalition government following Pakistan's inconclusive election. Bloomberg's Most Read According to Gohar Ali Khan, the temporary chairman of the party, Omar Ayub Khan, the grandson of the military ruler who served as Pakistan's second president, was selected by the imprisoned former premier's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, as its candidate for prime minister. On Saturday, it announced nationwide protests and requested a recount in roughly half of the seats it lost. Following the announcement by a rival party that it will join a coalition government, PTI is attempting to retaliate.

  With Pakistan’s most popular politician in jail and cynicism running high, can a new leader unite the country? Pakistanis headed to the polls on Thursday to elect a new parliament and prime minister at a time of renewed political turbulence in the country. The country’s popular former leader, Imran Khan, has been sentenced three separate times in recent weeks to lengthy jail terms. The timing before this week’s election is intended to send a message: the military wants him out of politics using a judicial pathway. The military, which has directly and indirectly controlled Pakistan’s politics for seven decades, appears determined to reopen the political space for two other parties in the lead-up to the vote. These are the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, led by three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and the Pakistan People’s Party, led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of former president Asif Ali Zardari and assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. S...