by Junaid S Ahmad

The tragedy of a section of Pakistan’s left is not that it misread Imran Khan politics often involves misjudgments. The real tragedy is that even after witnessing censorship, arrests, military trials, enforced disappearances, and political repression, many still chose cautious vocabulary over moral courage.

Imran Khan speaks at TEDxKarachi 2011 on Never Giving up on Your Dreams

Imran Khan was catapulted to global fame as a World Cup cricket champion, but the man known in the West as a celebrity playboy is now seeking to lead Pakistan as a populist, religiously devout, anti-corruption reformist. Let’s take a look at the many faces of the man.

By Imran Khan

TODAY PAKISTAN is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.

Imran Khan interview with George Negus

A remarkably frank interview filmed at Imran Khan’s home in Lahore.

by Osman Samiuddin

Just so we’re clear, the following is a fact. Not opinion, not a point of view, not a hot take. Fact. There is no Pakistani male, female, dead, alive, real, imagined – as famous as Imran Khan. Every turn in a multifarious public life has abounded in fame, first as a cricket legend, then as a beloved philanthropist who built a cancer hospital for the poor, latterly as a maverick politician who swept to power promising reform, and now, as the sole occupant of a cell in Pakistan’s most notorious jail. So famous he’s been the subject of two death hoaxes most recently in November, when he went unseen for so long that many concluded he had died.

Imran Khan conversation with Isobel Yeung (VICE World News)

Pakistan is in the middle of political chaos — and one man is at the center of it all. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted last year in a no-confidence vote, but polls suggest he remains the country’s most popular political leader.

by Pazir Gul

MIRAMSHAH: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Pakistan believes in peace beyond borders and will play its role in the Afghan peace process, as peace in the war-ravaged country is critical for achieving an enduring peace in Pakistan.

by Steve H, Hanke

August 5th marked another grim day for Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and one of the world’s greatest cricketers. It was the second anniversary of his incarceration in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on trumped-up charges.

By PROFESSOR JUNAID S. AHMAD

Pakistan’s liberal class has long practiced a curiously convenient form of courage: the kind that attacks power only after first making sure power is not in the room. It performs dissent under chandeliers, quotes Faiz with moist eyes, invokes Jalib with theatrical tremor, and then develops sudden laryngitis when asked to name the institution that actually rules the country. This is not politics. It is dissent as dinner theatre.