LAHORE – Prime Minister Imran Khan has turned 66 today (Friday). He was born on October 5, 1952.
Khan, who is the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), is a former cricketer, philanthropist, cricket commentator and former chancellor of the University of Bradford.
He is also a founder of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and the Numl College, Mianwali.
Imran ran for the seat of National Assembly of Pakistan in Pakistani general election, 1997 as a candidate of PTI from two constituencies – NA-53, Mianwali and NA-94, Lahore – but was unsuccessful and lost both the seats to candidates of PML (N). In 2013, he formed a government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and led his party in the opposition in Punjab and Sindh.
However, in 2018 Imran-led PTI won the maximum number of seats in the national and provincial assemblies with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announcing that it has won a total of 116 of the 270 seats contested.
Khan played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. He was skipper of the Pakistani team which lifted Cricket World Cup in 1992.
Khan retired from cricket in 1992 as one of Pakistan’s most successful players. In total, he made 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket, and is one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an ‘All-rounder’s Triple’ in Test matches. He was later, in 2010, inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
After the successful cricketing career, Khan set up a cancer hospital in Lahore in memory of his late mother who had died of the same disease.
He raised $25 million to set up the first hospital in Lahore in 1994, and later in 2015 the second hospital in Peshawar. He plans to build a similar hospital in Karachi as well.
The PTI chief was married twice but none of his marriages lasted. He married Jemima Goldsmith, a British national, in 1995 and ended his relationship with her in 2004.
He then married Reham Khan in 2015 but they parted ways within just 10 months.
Imran Khan then tied the knot with Bushra Maneka, of Pakpattan, where he used to visit her for spiritual guidance. The party said the Nikkah was solemnized by Mufti Saeed in Lahore.
Here are some of the happy birthday messages that have come in for the 1992 World Cup-winning hero:
https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/1048160479032610818
https://twitter.com/ICC/status/1048129414293151745
https://twitter.com/cricketworldcup/status/1048122678807334912
https://twitter.com/TheRealPCB/status/1048086087627943936
https://twitter.com/UdarOfficial/status/1048135886100226048
https://twitter.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/1048162411725946881
https://twitter.com/daniel86cricket/status/1047925740640059394
https://twitter.com/Irumf/status/1048101724609830912
https://twitter.com/Jan_Achakzai/status/1048098052819566592
We wish the Prime Minister a very happy birthday!
