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Twitter abuzz today with birthday wishes for game’s ‘biggest icon’ Imran Khan 

The photo collage shows Pakistani cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan gesture as he addresses supporters during a public meeting in Karachi on December 25, 2011 (R) and as he holds the 1992 World Cup Trophy during the victory presentation at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 25 March 1992 (L). (AFP)
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Updated 05 October 2021
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Twitter abuzz today with birthday wishes for game’s ‘biggest icon’ Imran Khan 

  • Khan led Pakistan to World Cup glory in 1992, became nation’s prime minister in 2018 
  • He was born in Lahore and is considered one of cricket’s greatest ever all-rounders
Updated 05 October 2021
Arab News Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Social media was abuzz on Tuesday with birthday wishes for cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, the 22nd and current prime minister of Pakistan, who is widely considered one of cricket’s greatest ever all-rounders.
Khan played cricket until 1992, served as the team’s captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992, and led Pakistan to Cricket World Cup glory — the country’s first and only victory in the competition. 

His party’s success in the 2018 general election after two decades of being dismissed at the polls ended decades of political dominance by two dynastic powerhouses, the PML-N of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), founded and led by the Bhutto family.
On the occasion of his birthday, Khan’s political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, thanked the leader for being an “inspiration” and said he had taught his followers to “never give up.”

ESPNcricinfo called him “the greatest cricketer Pakistan has produced.”
“A legendary allrounder and an inspirational captain who signed off with a World Cup triumph,” the sports outlet said. 

The International Cricket Council wished a happy birthday to the man who led Pakistan to World Cup glory in 1992, “the one and only Imran Khan.”

The Pakistan Cricket Board listed Khan’s achievements in cricket.

Cricket mobile application CricWick called him “arguably cricket’s biggest icon — the great Imran Khan.”

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Pakistan’s Sindh orders inquiry after clashes at Imran Khan party rally in Karachi

Updated 12 January 2026
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Pakistan’s Sindh orders inquiry after clashes at Imran Khan party rally in Karachi

  • Khan’s PTI party accuses police of shelling to disperse its protesters, placing hurdles to hinder rally in Karachi 
  • Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah vows all those found guilty in the inquiry will be punished
Updated 12 January 2026
Fatimah Amjad

ISLAMABAD: The government in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has ordered an inquiry into clashes that took place between police and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Karachi on Sunday, as it held a rally to demand his release from prison. 

The provincial government had granted PTI permission to hold a public gathering at Karachi’s Bagh-i-Jinnah Park and had also welcomed Sohail Afridi, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Khan’s party is in power, when he arrived in the city last week. However, the PTI cited a delay in receiving a permit and announced a last-minute change to a gate of Mazar-i-Quaid, the mausoleum of the nation’s founder. 

Despite the change, PTI supporters congregated at the originally advertised venue. PTI officials claimed the party faced obstacles in reaching the venue and that its supporters were met with police intervention. Footage of police officers arresting Khan supporters in Karachi were shared widely on social media platforms. 

“A complete inquiry is being held and whoever is found guilty in this, he will be punished,” Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah said while speaking to a local news channel on Sunday. 

Shah said the PTI had sought permission to hold its rally at Bagh-i-Jinnah in Karachi from the Sindh government, even though the venue’s administration falls under the federal government’s jurisdiction. 

He said problems arose when the no objection certificate to hold the rally was delayed for a few hours and the party announced it would hold the rally “on the road.”

The rally took place amid rising tensions between the PTI and Pakistan’s military and government. Khan, who remains in jail on a slew of charges he says are politically motivated since August 2023, blames the military and the government for colluding to keep him away from power by rigging the 2024 general election and implicating him in false cases. Both deny his allegations. 

Since Khan was ousted in a parliamentary vote in April 2022, the PTI has complained of a widespread state crackdown, while Khan and his senior party colleagues have been embroiled in dozens of legal cases.

Topics: Pakistan Sindh Imran Khan PTI Karachi

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