Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی) (born November 25, 1952) is a Pakistani cricketer and politician. Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and led them as captain to his country's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. With a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, Khan is known as one of the finest all-rounders in the modern history of the game. In April 1996, he founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice), a small and marginal political party, of which he is chairman as well as sole ever-elected member of Parliament. He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from October 2002 to October 2007.
Source: Dawn
ISLAMABAD: President of the Pakistan Peoples Party – Parliamentarians (PPPP) Makhdoom Amin Fahim said on Wednesday that his party had formally invited the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to from a coalition go ...
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Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan
PML-N's Saad Rafique had earlier won the seat with PTI's Hamid Khan securing the runner up position in the race. LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate Hamid Khan’s request for re-polling i ...
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Source: MSN India
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is on the frontline of a nearly seven-year domestic Taliban insurgency and suffers near-daily bomb and shooting attacks Peshawar: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has sought the help of an elderly pro-Taliban cleric t ...
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The vote tally is short by about six million. The May 11 elections were historic on all accounts. However, instead of 60per cent, as it was claimed by the officials in Islamabad, the voter turnout was closer to 53per cent, re ...
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Source: Daily Mail - UK
Imran Khan was being raised on a makeshift podium when he lost balanceToday he left hospital able to walk and is recovering at home in Lahore He received seven stitches to a six-inch long gash on his foreheadThe in ...
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Source: Sify
Lahore: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan was today discharged from a hospital here, over two weeks after he fractured his spine in a freak accident at an election campaign meeting. “We are pleased to ann ...
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Source: News24
2013-05-22 13:07 Lahore - Pakistani politician Imran Khan left hospital on Wednesday, two weeks after breaking bones in his back in a fall at a rally for the country's general election, where his party scored a major breakthrough. ...
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Source: Radio New Zealand
Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan has been discharged from hospital two weeks after falling from a platform at an election campaign rally. He has been fitted with a spinal brace to aid his recovery and walked out through a back ...
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