Mr Khan captained his team to victory in the 1992 cricket World Cup - an achievement that saw the entire country erupt in celebrations of a magnitude rarely seen in Pakistan. His encouragement to the team that they fight like 'cornered tigers' that year has seen the phrase enter sporting mythology. ![]() News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More News US news World news Environment Soccer. Imran Khan addresses vote rigging allegations in Pakistan election victory – video. Despite his cricket career being well in his past, the hashtag #behindyouskipper became one of the highest trending hashtags on social media in Pakistan during the election, attracting messages of support from former international superstars including Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. Six foot tall, urbane and with a voice that reveals his Oxford education, Mr Khan gained a reputation as a playboy and party animal during his sporting career. Hybrid theory. He began to settle down when he married British heiress Jemima Goldsmith (pictured above) in 1995, a year before he founded his political party. They had two children but divorced in 2004 after nine years together. His second marriage to journalist and weather presenter Reham Khan lasted 10 months before he reportedly 'divorced her by text message' in 2015. In February this year, he - to Bushra Maneka (below), a faith healer who treated him. The 3dRudder is a progressive device: the more you tilt it, the quicker you go. Serious sam 3 bfe vr. In leaving Lahore, he left behind a childhood spent playing cricket with his four servants and life as a student at Aitchison College, known as the Eton of Pakistan. He was distant from his father but close to his mother, whose family were known as the godfathers of Lahore Cricket Club - to the point that when people began to call him his mother's family name Khan, rather than Niazi, he let them. His mother died of cancer in 1985 and he built a hospital in his home city in her honour; he has expanded this to Peshawar and also plans to build one in Karachi. He vows to eradicate corruption from the top of government, to be tough on terror and to fight poverty. However, when pressed in the media, he rarely goes into detail. His background of family wealth, being a public personality, railing against liberals and electing himself the voice of the forgotten everyman has prompted The Sunday Times to compare him to Donald Trump - a politician Mr Khan has called 'ignorant and ungrateful'. Political controversy Pakistan's powerful military had been accused of influencing the election to fall in Mr Khan's favour by censoring media coverage. Mr Khan was rebuked by some for criticising NATO and has reportedly said the Taliban should be allowed to open an office in Pakistan to facilitate peace talks. Meanwhile, he has also been the subject of a #MeToo claim in Pakistan. Dawn NewsImran khan • January 08, 2019 12:00 PM IST Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan a former cricketer himself has extended greetings to the victorious team • January 01, 2019 12:31 PM IST Khan took to microblogging site Twitter to greet people and share his New Year resolution with the countrymen. • December 27, 2018 03:41 PM IST Naqvi's sharp reaction came after Khan for the second time within a week on Tuesday compared the treatment of minorities in his country and India, saying 'Naya Pakistan' is Quaid's (Jinnah) Pakistan and will ensure that our minorities are treated as equal citizens, unlike what is happening in India'. • December 26, 2018 07:52 AM IST On the occasion of Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah's birth anniversary on Tuesday, Khan said that Jinnah had envisaged Pakistan as a 'democratic, just and compassionate' nation. • December 18, 2018 03:48 PM IST The US and the Taliban have previously met on at least two occasions in Qatar but it is the first time that they are holding talks outside Doha, where the insurgent group has a political office, according to officials. • December 13, 2018 04:10 PM IST A three-judge bench, while hearing a case against 44 politically exposed individuals who possess properties in the UAE, remarked that failure on Khanum's part to honour the court orders will result in confiscation of her properties. • December 03, 2018 09:26 PM IST Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had said Khan bowled a 'googly' to ensure Indian government's presence at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor. • December 03, 2018 04:34 PM IST The corridor will connect Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev's final resting place in Pakistan's Kartarpur to the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab's Gurdaspur district in India.
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