{"id":4704,"date":"2024-02-01T05:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebestbiography.com\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2024-02-01T05:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:26:13","slug":"imran-khan-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebestbiography.com\/imran-khan-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan (Former Prime Minister of Pakistan) Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imran Khan, a politician against the establishment who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, on October 5, 1952, became the country’s first prime minister to be overthrown by a parliamentary vote in 2022. He became well-known for his cricket skills, having helped Pakistan win the Cricket World Cup in 1992. After a falling out with the politically influential army, he entered politics later on as an opponent of government corruption in Pakistan, yet in 2022 he was charged with corruption as well.<\/p>

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Imran Khan Biography <\/strong><\/h2>

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Birth<\/strong><\/td>5 October 1952<\/td><\/tr>
Age<\/strong><\/td>69 years<\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/strong><\/td>Ikramullah Khan Niazi (Father)Shaukat Khanum (Mother)<\/td><\/tr>
Education<\/strong><\/td>University of Oxford<\/td><\/tr>
Profession<\/strong><\/td>Politician Former Cricketer<\/td><\/tr>
Political Party<\/strong><\/td>Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)<\/td><\/tr>
Wife<\/strong><\/td>Jemima Goldsmith \u200b(married 1995; divorced 2004)\u200b Reham Khan (married and divorced in 2015)Bushra Bibi \u200b(married 2018)<\/td><\/tr>
Children <\/strong><\/td>(2)  Sulaiman Isa Khan,
 Kasim Khan<\/td><\/tr>
Awards<\/strong><\/td>Hilal-e-Imtiaz (1992)Pride of Performance (1983)King Hamad Order of the Renaissance (2019)Wetherall Award (1980)Inaugural Silver Jubilee award (2008)<\/td><\/tr>
Instagram<\/strong><\/td>@Imran Khan<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

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Imran Khan: Birth and Family<\/strong><\/h3>

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born to a Pashtun family of Mianwali in Lahore on October 5, 1952, to Ikramullah Khan Niazi and Shaukat Khanum. Imran Khan was the only son of the couple and has four sisters. <\/p>

Imran Khan belongs to the Pashtun ethnicity and Niazi tribe. Haibat Khan Niazi, one of the ancestors of Imran Khan, was Sher Shah Suri’s leading general and the governor of Punjab. <\/p>

Imran Khan’s mother hails from the Pashtun tribe of Burki which has given several successful cricketers in Pakistan’s history. His cousins Javed Burki and Majid Khan are also successful cricketers of Pakistan. Imran Khan is also a descendant of the Sufi warrior-poet Pir Roshan. <\/p>

Education<\/strong><\/h3>

Imran Khan received his earlier education at Aitchison College and Cathedral School in Lahore and then the Royal Grammar School in Worcester and excelled in cricket. In the year 1972, he got himself enrolled in Keble College, Oxford and graduated in 1975 in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. <\/p>

Background<\/strong><\/h3>

Khan made his first-class cricket debut aged sixteen in Lahore. During the early 1970s, he was playing for different Lahore-based smaller teams before making it into the main team in 1970\u201371.<\/p>

Khan was part of University of Oxford’s Blues Cricket team between 1973 and 1975.<\/p>

He played county cricket from 1971 to 1976 for Worcestershire, as an average medium-pace bowler.<\/p>

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