National Hero Of Pakistan: Imran Khan| Article By Saman Waheed

  National Hero Of Pakistan: Imran Khan

In 1952, Imran Khan was born into a family of civil engineers. He was educated in Lahore, Pakistan, where he was raised in a wealthy family and attended Oxford University. During these years, his cricket talent began to shine. It resulted in an unbelievable two-decade international career that saw PA win its first World Cup in 1992. He retired from playing cricket after the 1992 World Cup and then utilized his popularity to raise millions of dollars to establish a cancer hospital in his mother's honor. Imran, the 22nd Prime Minister of PA and the captain of Pakistan's cricket team that won the World Cup. 

Following the death of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum, from cancer in 1985, the hospital was constructed. In a poor nation where a large number of people lack access to basic medical treatment, cancer is often thought to be the ultimate sign of depression and premature mortality. 

Imran Khan's Career In Politics

From August 2018 to April 2022, Imran Ahmed, a politician and former cricket player from Pakistan, held the position of 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is the founder of the political party PA Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) and served as its chairman from 1996 till 2023. Khan, who founded the Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) in 1996, was elected to the National Assembly in the general election of 2002 and represented Mianwali as an opposition member until 2007. PTI was the second-largest party by popular vote in the 2013 general election after boycotting the 2008 election. Running on a populist platform in the 2018 general election, PTI rose to hold the position of the largest party in the National Assembly and, with Khan as prime minister, allied with independents.

In his position as prime minister, Khan used IMF rescues to address a balance of payments crisis. He oversaw a decline in the current account deficit and restricted defense spending to reduce the budget deficit, which resulted in some expansion in the overall economy. He implemented measures that raised investment and tax revenue. His leadership enhanced Pakistan's protected areas, started the Plant for Pakistan program and the Ehsaas Programme, and committed to switching renewable energy. He oversaw the COVID-19 pandemic, which put the nation's economy in confusion and increased inflation, threatening his political standing.

Khan said in the Lettergate affair that broke early in 2022 that the US supported his ouster from the government. Regarding the Toshakhana reference case, Khan was disqualified by the Pakistani Election Commission in October from holding office during the present term of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He escaped an attempted murder in November at a political gathering in Wazirabad, Punjab. Paramilitary forces pushed them to go into the Islamabad High Court on May 9, 2023, and arrested Khan on charges of corruption. As protests spread throughout Pakistan, many of Khan's supporters were arrested and military sites were damaged.

He accused Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir of being responsible for his time in jail after being released. On August 5, 2023, he was found guilty of misusing his position as premier to purchase and resell presents that the state had obtained during diplomatic trips overseas. He was given a three-year prison sentence. Khan was given bail and his three-year prison sentence suspended by a Pakistani appeals court on August 29, 2023, but he remained behind bars in relation to the Lettergate diplomatic cipher, for which he was charged with disclosing state secrets and breaking the Official Secrets Act. A special court found Khan guilty of those allegations and sentenced him to 10 years in prison on January 30, 2024. 

Imran Khan's Social Strategies 

In terms of social policy, the Kartarpur Corridor and other sacred places held by religious minorities have been restored by Khan's leadership. The PML-N, the main opposition party, had opposed the construction of the passage for Indian visitors. Khan's government, on the other hand, had a very different position on minority' policies. National and regional healthcare and education reforms were also implemented under Khan's government. Pakistan's welfare system as a whole as well as the social safety net were reformed during Khan's administration. 

This involved offering health insurance coverage and increasing welfare benefits, which used to be restricted to widows, to the disabled as well. of June 2021, Khan used what he called "common sense" to explain the rise of significant rape cases in Pakistan. Specifically, he argued that women who wear "very few clothes" will "have an impact on the men unless they are robots." Feminist organizations are shocked by his comments. 

Imran Khan's Works Of Authorship

Six nonfiction books, including an autobiography authored with Patrick Murphy, have been published by Khan. In his 2014 Urdu and Hindi book Main Aur Mera Pakistan, he also discusses Pakistan's modern past. The book includes information on the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Pakistan's conflicts with India in 1965 and 1971, the capture of terrorist Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in 2011, and other related topics. He sometimes writes opinion pieces for several respected Pakistani and British media about politics and cricket. 2008 saw news that Khan's second book, Indus Journey: A Personal View of Pakistan, had needed significant publisher editing. In the book he wrote, publisher Jeremy Lewis stated that Khan "handed me a leather-bound notebook or diary containing a few notes and personal anecdotes" when he was invited to submit writing for publication. 

Conclusion

Reading them took me, at most, five minutes, and it quickly became clear that was all the information we had." Khan's autobiography, which detailed his journey from cricket player to politician and the difficulties he experienced while seeking charity, was released in 2011. Khan has also written opinion pieces for several media sites, such as CNN, in which he pushed for dialogue and the repair of natural ecosystems that have been affected.