Imran Khan
About Imran Khan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani former cricketer, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. As a cricketer, he captained the Pakistan national cricket team to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. After retiring from cricket, he established the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Pakistan's first cancer hospital. He is the founder of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and was its chairman from 1996 to 2023. Born in Lahore, he graduated from Keble College, Oxford. He began his international cricket career in a 1971 Test series against England. He advocated for neutral umpiring during his captaincy. He played his last Test in January 1992 against Sri Lanka and retired after the 1992 Cricket World Cup final. In 2009, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. In his bachelorhood, Khan had several relationships, including with artist Emma Sergeant, his first girlfriend, and Ana-Luisa (Sita) White, daughter of industrialist Gordon White.