What makes Imran Khan Special?

Imran Khan – Net Worth and Salary

As of 2017, the net worth of Imran Khan is $13 million (Rs. 1.4 billion). He has investments worth over $380,000 (Rs. 40 million) in different businesses. He does not own a car or any other motorized vehicle.  As PM of Pakistan, Imran Khan gets a basic annual salary of over Rs. 1, 7000, 000 and other additional allowances and expenses.

What makes Imran Khan special?

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi is a Pakistani Politician and the chairman of the Pakistani political party ‘Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’ (PTI). He was formerly a professional cricket player and captain of the Pakistani National Cricket Team. He is also a cricket commentator, author, and philanthropist. He has been a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and from 2013 to 2018. As of July 27, 2018, he  became the leading candidate to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. He assumed office on August 18, 2018.

Khan was an international cricketer for over 2 decades. He began a fundraising campaign in 1991 to make a cancer hospital in memory of Shaukat Khanum, his mother. He successfully raised over $25 million via donations from all over the world and set up the hospital named ‘Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre’ in 1994. He established another cancer hospital in Peshawar in 2015. He has also established different charity projects like Namal College, provided flood relief, and worked towards electrification of villages.

Khan has been the chancellor of Bradford University from 2005 to 2014. In 2012, he received an honorary fellowship from Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians as recognition of his work towards treatment of cancer in Pakistan.

Early Life and Education

Imran Khan was born on 5^th October 1952 into a Pashtun family in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. His father Ikramullah Khan Niazi was a civil engineer. He was the only son and had 4 sisters. His cousins Majid Khan and Javed Burki were also cricketers.

Khan was shy and quiet as a boy. He had an affluent upbringing and good education. He studied at Aitchison and Worcester, and finally at Keble College located in Oxford, England.

Cricketing Career

Khan began playing cricket when he was 13 years old. He played for his college in the beginning and then for the Worcestershire Cricket Club. He made his international test debut for the Pakistan National Cricket Team against England in 1971 at age 18 years. He became a permanent player of the national team in 1976 after graduating from college. He continued playing cricket as a professional till 1992. He was also the captain of the Pakistan cricket team intermittently between 1982 and 1992. He led the team to its only World Cup victory in 1992.

At the time of retirement, Khan was one of the most successful cricketers in the country. He took 362 wickets and made 3,807 runs in Test cricket. He is only one of the 8 cricketers in the world to have achieved the feat of ‘all rounder’s triple’ of 300 wickets and 3000 runs in test match cricket. He was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2010.

Political Career

Khan founded and launched his own centrist political party called the PTI or Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in April 1996. The meaning of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is Pakistan Movement for Justice. He subsequently became the national leader and chairman of the party. He contested and won a National Assembly seat in 2002 and in 2013. The PTI emerged as the second largest party by popular vote after the 2013 general elections.

Since 2013, Khan is the leader of the 3^rd largest group of parliamentarians in the Pakistan National Assembly and serves as his party’s parliamentary leader. The PTI also heads a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in the northwestern region of the country.

Khan contested in the 2018 general elections and is leading in more than 100 seats as of 27 July, 2018. He may form the next government and become the PM of Pakistan if he is able to garner support from independent parliamentarians. Other parties have alleged that the Pakistani military and judiciary conspired against them and pre-rigged the elections in favor of the PTI. The Election Commission of Pakistan has however vehemently refused these claims.

Imran Khan – Wife, Ex Wives and Affairs

• In his youth, Khan led a bachelor’s life and was considered to be a playboy and hedonistic. He used to frequent varied nightclubs in London and sought all pleasures of life. Khan has however stated that he never drank alcohol and hated the pubs.

• Khan was in a relationship with Sita White from 1987-88 to 1994. Sita was the daughter of British tycoon Gordon White, the Baron White of Hull. Khan and Sita had a daughter in 1992 named Tyrian-Jade White. Imran has stated that she is not his child and has denied all paternity claims.

 

• He married Jemima Goldsmith in a private ceremony in Paris in May 1995. Jemima was 21 years old at that time and Khan was 43 years old. They had a civil ceremony in England in June 1995. They divorced after 9 years in 2004 as Jemima was unable to adapt to life in the new country. She had converted to Islam after marriage. The couple has two sons Sulaiman Isa and Qasim Khan.

• Imran married British-Pakistani Journalist Reham Khan in 2014. The second marriage lasted for less than a year and they divorced in 2015. Reham, in her 2018 book, has revealed the s*x activities and other aspects of Imran Khan’s lifestyle.

• Khan married for the third time in February 2018. He wed his spiritual advisor Bushra Manika. It is rumored that the two got married as early as mid 2016, but PTI denied the rumors and has confirmed that the wedding occurred in Feb 2018.

Imran Khan – Young Pictures

Imran Khan – House and Books

• The main residence of Khan is the sprawling mansion located in Bani Gala, Islamabad. It is spread across 300 kanal (1 kanal = 1/8^th of an acre) and is worth more than $7 million (Rs. 750 million). The mansion is separated into two different areas; one area is for official work and meetings with politicians and bureaucrats, etc., while the other is personal space.
  • He also has another home in Zaman Park, Lahore. It is worth around $270,000 (Rs. 29 million).
• Khan is 1.85 meters tall.
• He has written 6 non-fiction books, including his autobiography and the latest work being ‘Pakistan: A Personal History’ published in 2011.
• In 1983, he received the President’s Pride of Performance award. In 1992, he received the Hilal-e-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan. The Hilal-e-Imtiaz is the second highest civilian award in the country.