Today, Sunday, April 3, 2022, the Pakistani Parliament has canceled a draft resolution to vote no confidence in Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a surprising move based on Article 5 of the Constitution.

The opposition had demanded a parliamentary session of no-confidence against Khan after accusing him of his inability to address the issues of the economy and foreign policy, and in return, Khan accused the United States of supporting the attempt to isolate him to change the regime.

What is the story of Imran Khan?

Birth and upbringing

November 25, 1952: Imran Ikramullah Khan Niazi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, into a middle-class family. His father was a civil engineer.

Khan grew up a quiet and shy boy in his youth, in an average family with four sisters.

Khan's father settled in the Punjab province. He descends from the Pashtun Niazi Sherman Khan tribe in the city of Mianwali.

His maternal lineage includes successful models of cricketers, including Jawed Burke and Majid Khan.

He studied at Aitchson College, Lahore, and moved to Britain, where he joined the Royal Grammar School in Worcester.

His superiority in cricket appeared when he was a student at the British School. He joined the Pakistan cricket team in 1971, and led it in 1992 to win the first Cricket World Cup.

1972: He joined Keble College in Oxford to study philosophy, politics, and economics. He finished his studies by getting second place in politics, and third in economics.

He received a master's degree in Arts.

Imran Khan worked as a commentator in cricket matches, and as an ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Khan is one of the six cricketers in the world who have excelled in the multi-skilled trio in the "Test" matches.


political experience

Before engaging in political work, Imran Khan participated in many social and charitable activities, and helped - through fundraising from outside Pakistan - in building the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center in 1996, and Namal College in Mianwali 2008.

April 25, 1996: He founded the "Insaf Movement", which emerged as a political party at the forefront of the Pakistani political scene in 2011. Khan entered the parliament in his name.

2000: The former Pakistani army chief, General Pervez Musharraf, endorsed and supported Musharraf in a popular referendum for his assumption of the presidency, but then criticized him strongly for what he called "subordination" to the US administration and its president, George W. Bush.

2002: He won the first parliamentary seat for the city of Mianwali.

November 3, 2007: Khan was placed under house arrest at his father's house, following President Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan and the involvement of his "Insaf" party in a number of initiatives launched by opposition parties.

Khan escaped and joined the student opposition movement at Punjab University, where he was arrested under the anti-terror law and soon released, but was again placed under house arrest in a campaign against the opposition by former President Asif Ali Zardari in 2009.

2013: Khan led his party to win local elections in Khyber Province (Northwest Pakistan) and formed the local government in the province for a period of 5 years.

Khan announced his intention to negotiate with the militants of the Pakistan Taliban, who excluded his party from attacks on election rallies during the campaign leading up to the May 11, 2013 elections.

Khan is known for his opposition to administrative and political corruption, his strong opposition to US raids on the tribal areas, and his call for negotiations with the militants of the Pakistani Taliban movement.

August 2014: He withdrew from the negotiations with the Pakistani government that took place to end the political crisis in the country, and demanded that his supporters sit in the capital, Islamabad, and protest demonstrations in cities against the government of Nawaz Sharif, and to resign from Parliament to force him to submit his resignation and step down due to "fraud". Young Election 2013.

Khan receives support from young people for his openness to Western culture, but other popular groups believe that his style does not fit the nature of the conservative Pakistani people.

2018: Imran Khan's Insaf party won the general elections, and in alliance with 6 parties and independents, was able to form the government, becoming the 22nd Prime Minister in the history of Pakistan.

- At his inauguration as prime minister, his wife, Bushra Bibi, accompanied him, wearing a niqab that only showed her eyes, which sparked controversy between supporters of the Islamic appearance and his opponents in Pakistan.

- This was followed by the Prime Minister's announcement, "his relinquishment of his private residence and hundreds of servants and cars allocated to the Prime Minister, in order to live a simple life through which he feels people's problems, and seeks to pay off the accumulated debts of the state."

- After his inauguration, he declared that Pakistan-US relations should be reformulated so that Pakistan would be "a friend of America and not an agent of it."

Books and Honors

He participated in editorial articles in some British newspapers on cricket and Pakistani political affairs, and published 5 works, including an autobiography, with Patrick Murphy.

Imran Khan has received many awards in the sports and charitable field, including: the 1992 Pakistani Civilian Prize, the Hilal Al-Imtiaz Award, and he was awarded the title of "Honorary Fellow" from Cable College in Oxford, and was appointed as the Fifth Dean at the University of Bradford.

July 8, 2004: Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian Jewel Awards Ceremony in London for being a symbol of many international charities.

2009: Khan was among 55 cricketers inducted into the International Cricket Council's list of celebrity, at the ICC Centenary Celebration.

family life

1995: He married British Jew Jamima Goldsmith, and the marriage lasted for 9 years, with whom he had two sons, before he divorced her.

2015: He married British-Pakistani BBC presenter Reham Khan for several months before he divorced her after accusing him of having an affair with one of his aides.

2018: He married Bushra BB amid accusations of putting pressure on her ex-husband and forcing him to divorce her, amid accusations of their association before Bushra ended the legal waiting period according to Islamic laws.