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IMRAN KHAN: A Leader the world needs

“An international initiative dedicated to elevating Imran Khan’s leadership, public service, and role in challenging entrenched systems of power at both national and international levels. The campaign highlights his reform-driven agenda, his engagement with issues facing the Global South, and his efforts to build cross-border solidarity in the struggle for social equity, democratic rights, and accountable governance.”

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The Last Interlocutor: Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Leadership Vacuum, and the Search for a Regional Peacemaker

by Tahir Azad

In April 2022, Imran Khan became the first prime minister in Pakistan’s history to be removed through a vote of no confidence. What followed was a campaign of institutional suppression without precedent in the country’s democratic experience. Party leaders were arrested en masse.

CIGA Hosts Diwaniyya Dialogue Featuring Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan

The Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) hosted a Diwaniyya-style dialogue that brought together public leaders, scholars, and public policy experts for an open, tradition-inspired discussion on pressing global and regional issues.

The event featured Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, whose participation anchored a wide-ranging conversation on geopolitics, regional challenges, governance, and his vision for Pakistan’s future. The dialogue reflected the Diwaniyya tradition of fostering inclusive, candid exchanges on matters of public importance.

Dead or Alive, Imran Khan Puts Pakistan’s General Munir in a Catch-22 Situation

By Asif Ullah Khan

In trying to contain Khan, the system may be unintentionally shaping the very legend it fears.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was 51 when he was executed. Benazir Bhutto Zardari was 54 when she was assassinated. Imran Khan is now 75. He appears physically fitter than most men his age — even after retiring from cricket, he never stopped exercising, and reports say he continues to work out daily in prison. He is also being provided with food of his choice. Yet physical fitness alone cannot shield a man of his age from the toll of imprisonment, especially the psychological strain.

How the world reacted to Imran Khan’s arrest in Pakistan

Leaders and world bodies call for restraint and raise alarm after Pakistani authorities suspend mobile internet.

Imran Khan and the Islamophobia industry that buried him

by Junaid S. Ahmad

The problem is not that every Muslim scholar or activist must support Khan. The problem is that so many built careers on the very vocabulary his persecution now tests: Islamophobia, empire, authoritarianism, Muslim agency, decoloniality, political subjectivity, resistance.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan will “absolutely not” allow CIA to use bases for Afghanistan operations

by Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu

Pakistan will “absolutely not” allow the CIA to use bases on its soil for cross-border counter terrorism missions after American forces withdraw from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan

Imran Khan: Former Pakistani prime minister speaks to ITV News from solitary confinement

by Rohit Kachroo

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has urged Sir Keir Starmer to raise awareness of threats to democracy in Pakistan in a rare interview granted from solitary confinement

Pakistan PM calls for West to criminalise blasphemy against Islam

PM Imran Khan calls on Western governments to treat insult against Islam’s prophet as it does the Holocaust.

by Asad Hashim

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for Muslim-majority countries to band together to lobby Western governments to criminalise the insulting of Islam’s prophet, as negotiations between his government and a far-right anti-blasphemy religious group continue.

Imran Khan says ‘constitution violated’ as Punjab vote is delayed

Pakistan’s election authorities have delayed the election for a crucial regional assembly after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government refused to provide the necessary funds and polling staff citing financial constraints.

5 myths about Imran Khan that should have been busted years ago

By Husain Nadim.

Since a lie on-repeat becomes a given truth, let me correct the record on this:

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