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Imran Khan HI, PP, RCPE (Hon) born Imran Khan Niazi on 25 November 1952, is a Pakistani politician, celebrity and former cricketer. He played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century and, after retiring, entered politics. Besides his political activism, Khan is also a prominent philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founding Chairman of Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre. Through worldwide fundraising, he founded the Mianwali's Namal College in 2008.According to Asia Society, Khan was voted as Asia’s Person of the Year 2012 scoring more than 88 per cent of the total vote casted.[3] While according to the Pew Research Center in 2012 seven out of ten Pakistani respondents offered a favourable opinion about Khan, the survey also revealed that Khan enjoys incomparable popularity among the youth.[4]

He was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain,[5] leading his country to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and serving as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992.[6] After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup in 1988, due to popular public demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan Zia ul Haq to lead the team once again. At 39, Khan led his team to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches.[7] On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[8]

In April 1996, Khan eslablished a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice),[9] and became the chairman of the party. He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007.[10][11] On December 2012 GlobalPost ranked him the third in the top nine world leaders. It also recognized that Khan is the face of the anti-drone movement in Pakistan. [12]

Personal life

[edit]Background

Khan was born in Lahore into a family of Pashtun origin, the only son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer and government contractor, and his wife Shaukat Khanum.[13] Although long settled in Mianwali in northwestern Punjab, the family are of Pashtun ethnicity and belong to the Niazi Shermankhel tribe.[14] A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his four sisters in relatively affluent (upper middle-class) circumstances[15] and received a privileged education. He was educated at the Cathedral School in Lahore, the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket, and at Aitchison College, Lahore. In 1972, he enrolled to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a second-class degree in Politics and a third in Economics.[16] Khan's mother hailed from the Burki family which had produced several successful cricketers,[13] as well as cricketers such as Javed Burki and Majid Khan.[14] Early in life, Khan developed an interest in cricket, which is an extremely popular sport in Pakistan.[17][not in citation given]

[edit]Marriage to Jemima

On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in an Islamic ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond register office in England, followed by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey.[18] The marriage, described as "tough" by Khan,[14] produced two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 18 November 1996) and Kasim (born 10 April 1999).[19] As an agreement of his marriage, Khan spent four months a year in England. On 22 June 2004, it was announced that the Khans had divorced because it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to life in Pakistan".[20] The marriage ended amicably. Imran has regular access to his children and his relationship with his ex-wife is friendly. Khan now resides alone in Bani Gala, Islamabad, a 300 kanal (37 acre) house plus farmhouse which he built with the money he initially borrowed from his wife and re-paid after selling his London flat. He grows fruit trees, wheat, and keeps cows and dogs, while also maintaining a cricket ground for his two sons, who visit during their holidays. Khan is known as one of the few cricket players who has a clean record of match fixing and the trust that he has maintained for so long has helped his political life quite well.[14]

[edit]Cricket career

See also: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Imran Khan

Imran Khan

Personal information

Born 26 November 1952 (age 60)

Lahore, West Punjab, Dominion of Pakistan

Batting style Right-handed

Bowling style Right-arm fast

Role All-rounder

Relations Javed Burki (cousin)

Majid Khan (cousin)

International information

National side Pakistan

Test debut (cap 65) 3 June 1971 v England

Last Test 2 January 1992 v Sri Lanka

ODI debut (cap 12) 31 August 1974 v England

Last ODI 25 March 1992 v England

Domestic team information

Years Team

1977–1988 Sussex

1984/85 New South Wales

1975–1981 PIA

1971–1976 Worcestershire

1973–1975 Oxford University

1969–1971 Lahore

Career statistics

Competition Test ODI FC LA

Matches 88 175 382 425

Runs scored 3,807 3,709 17,771 10,100

Batting average 37.69 33.41 36.79 33.22

100s/50s 6/18 1/19 30/93 5/66

Top score 136 102* 170 114*

Balls bowled 19,458 5,105 65,224 19,122

Wickets 362 182 1,287 507

Bowling average 22.81 26.61 22.32 22.31

5 wickets in innings 23 1 70 6

10 wickets in match 6 n/a 13 n/a

Best bowling 8/58 6/14 8/34 6/14

Catches/stumpings 28/0 36/0 117/0 84/0

Source: ESPNCricinfo, 24 December 2011

Pride of Performance Award Recipient

Date 1983

Country Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Presented by Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award Recipient

Date 1992

Country Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Presented by Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Khan made a lacklustre first-class cricket debut at the age of sixteen in Lahore. By the start of the 1970s, he was playing for his home teams of Lahore A (1969–70), Lahore B (1969–70), Lahore Greens (1970–71) and, eventually, Lahore (1970–71).[21] Khan was part of Oxford University's Blues Cricket team during the 1973–75 seasons.[16] At Worcestershire, where he played county cricket from 1971 to 1976, he was regarded as only an average medium pace bowler. During this decade, other teams represented by Khan include Dawood Industries (1975–76) and Pakistan International Airlines (1975–76 to 1980–81). From 1983 to 1988, he played for Sussex.[7]

In 1971, Khan made his Test cricket debut against England at Birmingham. Three years later, he debuted in the One Day International (ODI) match, once again playing against England at Nottingham for the Prudential Trophy. After graduating from Oxford and finishing his tenure at Worcestershire, he returned to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent place on his native national team starting from the 1976–77 season, during which they faced New Zealand and Australia.[21] Following the Australian series, he toured the West Indies, where he met Tony Greig, who signed him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.[7] His credentials as one of the fastest bowlers of the world started to establish when he finished third at 139.7 km/h in a fast bowling contest at Perth in 1978, behind Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding, but ahead of Dennis Lillee, Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts.[7]

As a fast bowler, Khan reached the peak of his powers in 1982. In 9 Tests, he got 62 wickets at 13.29 each, the lowest average of any bowler in Test history with at least 50 wickets in a calendar year.[22] In January 1983, playing against India, he attained a Test bowling rating of 922 points. Although calculated retrospectively (ICC player ratings did not exist at the time), Khan's form and performance during this period ranks third in the ICC's All-Time Test Bowling Rankings.[23]

Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the second fastest record behind Ian Botham's 72. He is also established as having the second highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a Test batsman playing at position 6 of the batting order.[24] He played his last Test match for Pakistan in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Khan retired permanently from cricket six months after his last ODI, the historic 1992 World Cup final against England at Melbourne, Australia.[25][not in citation given] He ended his career with 88 Test matches, 126 innings and scored 3807 runs at an average of 37.69, including six centuries and 18 fifties. His highest score was 136 runs. As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the first Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to do so.[7] In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 runs at an average of 33.41. His highest score remains 102 not out. His best ODI bowling is documented at 6 wickets for 14 runs.

[edit]Captaincy

At the height of his career, in 1982, the thirty-year-old Khan took over the captaincy of the Pakistan cricket team from Javed Miandad. Recalling his initial discomfort with this new role, he later said, "When I became the cricket captain, I couldn’t speak to the team directly I was so shy. I had to tell the manager, I said listen can you talk to them, this is what I want to convey to the team. I mean early team meetings I use to be so shy and embarrassed I couldn’t talk to the team."[26] As a captain, Khan played 48 Test matches, out of which 14 were won by Pakistan, 8 lost and the rest of 26 were drawn. He also played 139 ODIs, winning 77, losing 57 and ending one in a tie.[7]

In the team's second match under his leadership, Khan led them to their first Test win on English soil for 28 years at Lord's.[27] Khan's first year as captain was the peak of his legacy as a fast bowler as well as an all-rounder. He recorded the best Test bowling of his career while taking 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1981–82.[7] He also topped both the bowling and batting averages against England in three Test series in 1982, taking 21 wickets and averaging 56 with the bat. Later the same year, he put up a highly acknowledged performance in a home series against the formidable Indian team by taking 40 wickets in six Tests at an average of 13.95. By the end of this series in 1982–83, Khan had taken 88 wickets in 13 Test matches over a period of one year as captain.[21]

Imran Khan's test career bowling statistics

This same Test series against India, however, also resulted in a stress fracture in his shin that kept him out of cricket for more than two years. An experimental treatment funded by the Pakistani government helped him recover by the end of 1984 and he made a successful comeback to international cricket in the latter part of the 1984–85 season.[7]

In 1987, Khan led Pakistan to its first ever Test series win in India, which was followed by Pakistan's first series victory in England the same year.[27] During the 1980s, his team also recorded three creditable draws against the West Indies. India and Pakistan co-hosted the 1987 World Cup, but neither ventured beyond the semi-finals. Khan retired from international cricket at the end of the World Cup. In 1988, he was asked to return to the captaincy by the president Of Pakistan, General Zia-Ul-Haq, and on 18 January, he announced his decision to rejoin the team.[7] Soon after returning to the captaincy, Khan led Pakistan to another winning tour in the West Indies, which he has recounted as "the last time I really bowled well".[14] He was declared Man of the Series against West Indies in 1988 when he took 23 wickets in 3 tests.[7]

Khan's career-high as a captain and cricketer came when he led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Playing with a brittle batting line-up, Khan promoted himself as a batsman to play in the top order along with Javed Miandad, but his contribution as a bowler was minimal. At the age of 39, Khan took the winning last wicket himself.[21]

Khan mentioned in his autobiography that he wanted to play the English tour after the 1992 World Cup. The other players were afraid that all the prize money from the World Cup victory would be donated to Khan's cancer hospital, and so they weren't willing to allow Khan to play in that series. Consequently, Khan retired from cricket in October 1992, his last game being the World Cup Final.[citation needed]

[edit]Post-retirement

Khan giving autographs on membership forms for new party members in Lahore.

In 1994, Khan had admitted that, during Test matches, he "occasionally scratched the side of the ball and lifted the seam." He had also added, "Only once did I use an object. When Sussex were playing Hampshire in 1981 the ball was not deviating at all. I got the 12th man to bring out a bottle top and it started to move around a lot."[28] In 1996, Khan successfully defended himself in a libel action brought forth by former English captain and all-rounder Ian Botham and batsman Allan Lamb over comments they alleged were made by Khan in two articles about the above-mentioned ball-tampering and another article published in an Indian magazine, India Today. They claimed that, in the latter publication, Khan had called the two cricketers "racist, ill-educated and lacking in class." Khan protested that he had been misquoted, saying that he was defending himself after having admitted that he tampered with a ball in a county match 18 years ago.[29] Khan won the libel case, which the judge labelled a "complete exercise in futility", with a 10–2 majority decision by the jury.[29]

Since retiring, Khan has written opinion pieces on cricket for various British and Asian newspapers, especially regarding the Pakistani national team. His contributions have been published in India's Outlook magazine,[30] the Guardian,[31] the Independent, and the Telegraph. Khan also sometimes appears as a cricket commentator on Asian and British sports networks, including BBC Urdu[32] and the Star TV network.[33] In 2004, when the Indian cricket team toured Pakistan after 14 years, he was a commentator on TEN Sports' special live show, Straight Drive,[34] while he was also a columnist for sify.com for the 2005 India-Pakistan Test series.[35] He has provided analysis for every cricket World Cup since 1992, which includes providing match summaries for the BBC during the 1999 World Cup.[35]

In November 2009 Khan underwent emergency surgery at Lahore's Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital to remove an obstruction in his small intestine.[36]

[edit]Records

He holds the world record of taking most wickets (78 wickets) in test wins as captain (as of Feb 2013)[37]

He also has the best bowling figures (8 wickets for 60 runs) in a test innings in a win as captain (as of Feb 2013).[38]

He has the most five-wicket hauls(6) in a test innings in wins as captain(as of Feb 2013)[39]

[edit]Activities

[edit]Social

For more than four years after retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan focused his efforts solely on social work. By 1991, he had founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charity organisation bearing the name of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum. As the Trust's maiden endeavour, Khan established Pakistan's first and only cancer hospital, constructed using donations and funds exceeding $25 million, raised by Khan from all over the world.[9] Inspired by the memory of his mother, who died of cancer, the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, a charitable cancer hospital with 75 percent free care, opened in Lahore on 29 December 1994.[14] Khan currently serves as the chairman of the hospital and continues to raise funds through charity and public donations.[40]

During the 1990s, Khan also served as UNICEF's Special Representative for Sports[41] and promoted health and immunisation programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.[42]

On 27 April 2008, Khan's brainchild, a technical college in the Mianwali District called Namal College, was inaugurated. Namal College was built by the Mianwali Development Trust (MDT), as chaired by Khan, and was made an associate college of the University of Bradford (of which Khan is Chancellor) in December 2005.[43] Currently, Khan is building another cancer hospital in Karachi, using his successful Lahore institution as a model. While in London, he also works with the Lord's Taverners, a cricket charity.[9]

[edit]Political

Imran Khan addresses a Political gathering at Karachi opposite of Mazar-e-Quaid, according to PTI over 200,000 people attended this gathering.

Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf addressing Tribal leaders of Waziristan in a meeting held in Islamabad. PTI holds an anti War on Terror policy and is the biggest political opposition to Drone attacks in Pakistan.

Leader and Chairman of PTI Imran Khan on stage at a public gathering at Abbottabad.

In 1996, Khan founded a political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which emphasized on anti-corruption policies.[14][44] The newly formed party was unable to win a seat during the 1997 Pakistani general election.[45] Khan supported General Pervez Musharraf's military coup in 1999,[46] believing Musharraf would "end corruption, clear out the political mafias".[47] According to Khan, he was Musharraf's choice of prime minister in 2002 but turned down the offer.[48] The 2002 Pakistani general election were held in October across 272 constituencies. Khan anticipated doing well in the elections and was prepared to form a coalition if his party did not get a majority of the vote.[49] He was elected from the NA-71 constituency of Mianwali and being the only party member to have secured a seat, PTI won only 0.8% of the popular vote. Khan, who was sworn in as an MP on 16 November,[50] remained part of the Standing Committees on Kashmir and Public Accounts, and expressed legislative interest in Foreign Affairs, Education and Justice.[51]

On 6 May 2005, Khan became one of the first Muslim figures to criticise a 300-word Newsweek story about the alleged desecration of the Qur'an in a U.S. military prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Khan held a press conference to denounce the article and demanded that Gen. Pervez Musharraf secure an apology from the American president George W. Bush for the incident.[52] In June 2007, the federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr. Sher Afgan Khan Niazi and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party filed separate ineligibility references against Khan, asking for his disqualification as member of the National Assembly on grounds of immorality. Both references, filed on the basis of articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution of Pakistan, were rejected on 5 September.[53]

On 2 October 2007, as part of the All Parties Democratic Movement, Khan joined 85 other MPs to resign from Parliament in protest of the presidential election scheduled for 6 October, which General Musharraf was contesting without resigning as army chief.[10] On 3 November 2007, Khan was put under house arrest at his father's home hours after president Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. Khan had demanded the death penalty for Musharraf after the imposition of emergency rule, which he equated to "committing treason". The next day, on 4 November, Khan escaped and went into peripatetic hiding.[54] He eventually came out of hiding on 14 November to join a student protest at the University of the Punjab.[55] At the rally, Khan was captured by students from the Jamaat-i-Islami political party, who claimed that Khan was an uninvited nuisance at the rally, and they handed him over to the police, who charged him under the Anti-terrorism act for allegedly inciting people to pick up arms, calling for civil disobedience, and for spreading hatred.[56]

On 30 October 2011, Khan changed the political picture of the country by addressing more than 100,000 supporters in Lahore, challenging the policies of the current government, calling this new change a "tsunami" against the ruling parties,[57] followed by another successful public gathering of 250,000 supporters in Karachi on 25 December 2011.[58] Since then Imran Khan has become a real threat for the current ruling parties and future political prospect in Pakistan. According to International Republican Institute (IRI)'s survey, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) tops the list of popular parties in Pakistan both at the national as well as provincial level, leaving Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) behind.[59]

On 30 June 2012, It is because of the principled stance of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on the critical issues faced by the country that a survey conducted by an international research organisation has found him the most popular leader of the country, the party said in a statement on Friday. According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre under its Global Attitudes project, the PTI chief has 70 percent approval ratings, moving up the list by 18 percentage points over the past two years. In 2010, his ratings stood at 52 percent.[60]

On 6 October 2012, Khan led a vehicle caravan of protesters from Islamabad to the village of Kotai in Pakistan's South Waziristan region. The purpose of this demonstration was to protest U.S. drone missile strikes against Islamic militants in Pakistan's tribal regions. Khan was joined by a number of Americans, including members of Code Pink, a U.S. based anti-drone activist group. Some observers suggested that part of Khan's motivation for the public rally was to build support for his PTI party ahead of national elections in 2013.[61] Khan is quoted as saying that as Prime Minister he would refuse foreign aid in order to "take away the narrative of the Jihad".[62]

On 23 March 2013, Khan passed the "Naya Pakistan Resolution" (New Pakistan) at the start of his election campaign while addressing a large rally at Iqbal Park. He made six promises to the Pakistani People if he comes to power which includes that he will never lie to the nation, he and his government will wage a 'Jihad' against injustice in the country, he will keep all his wealth in Pakistan, he will not take or allow others to take unfair benefit during PTI’s tenure in the government, he will guard the nation's tax. It will not be spent on Governor, PM and CM houses, the PTI government will break the walls of the Governor houses and will stand by overseas Pakistanis.[63] [64]

[edit]Ideology

Imran Khan addressing a crowd at Hyderabad, Sindh

Khan's proclaimed political platform and declarations include: Islamic values, to which he rededicated himself in the 1990s; liberal economics, with the promise of deregulating the economy and creating a welfare state; decreased bureaucracy and the implementation of anti-corruption laws, to create and ensure a clean government; the establishment of an independent judiciary; overhaul of the country's police system; and an anti-militant vision for a democratic Pakistan.[25][33][65]

Khan told Britain's Daily Telegraph, "I want Pakistan to be a welfare state and a genuine democracy with a rule of law and an independent judiciary."[25] Other ideas he has presented include a requirement of all students to spend a year after graduation teaching in the countryside and cutting down the over-staffed bureaucracy in order to send them to teach too.[66] "We need decentralisation, empowering people at the grass roots," he has said.[67] Recently, he was threatened of death by the Pakistani Taliban if he went ahead with his march to their tribal stronghold along the Afghan border because he calls himself a "liberal" – a term they associate with a lack of religious belief.[68] [69]

Khan delivered his own version of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech during a large rally In Mingora.

I dreamt about playing for Pakistan at the age of nine and I played for the national team at 18. I dreamt of becoming world’s best all rounder; in nine years time I became one. I dreamt of making Pakistan the best cricket team and winning a world cup; it took 10 years and we won in 1992.I dreamt of establishing a great cancer hospital, it took five years and Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital was created. I dreamt of a university like Oxford; I set up Namal University. Though, it is just the beginning for the institution. When I joined politics, I dreamt of Pakistani people rallying with me for a better Pakistan and on October 30, 2011 the ‘tsunami’ took over Pakistan. Four months back, I dreamt of Pakistanis celebrating in the streets and I realised PTI had swept the general elections.”

—Imran Khan on March 31, 2013, [70]

[edit]Criticism

During the 1970s and 1980s, Khan became known as a socialite due to his strict behavior against western customs. an is often dismissed as a political lightweight[55] and a celebrity outsider in Pakistan,[26] where national newspapers also refer to him as a "spoiler politician".[71] The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, has asserted that Khan is "a sick person who has been a total failure in politics and is alive just because of the media coverage".[72] Political observers say the crowds he draws are attracted by his cricketing celebrity, and the public has been reported to view him as a figure of entertainment rather than a serious political authority.[66]

Declan Walsh in The Guardian newspaper in England in 2005 described Khan as a "miserable politician," observing that, "Khan's ideas and affiliations since entering politics in 1996 have swerved and skidded like a rickshaw in a rainshower... He preaches democracy one day but gives a vote to reactionary mullahs the next."[47] The charge constantly raised against Khan is that of hypocrisy and opportunism, including what has been called his life's "playboy to puritan U-turn."[26] Political commentator Najam Sethi, stated that, "A lot of the Imran Khan story is about backtracking on a lot of things he said earlier, which is why this doesn’t inspire people.".[26] He is also accused of having links with Pakistan's 'establishment'.[73] In 2008, as part of the Hall of Shame awards for 2007, Pakistan's Newsline magazine gave Khan the "Paris Hilton award for being the most undeserving media darling." The 'citation' for Khan read: "He is the leader of a party that is the proud holder of one National Assembly seat (and) gets media coverage inversely proportional to his political influence." The Guardian has described the coverage garnered by Khan's post-retirement activities in England, where he made his name as a cricket star and a night-club regular, as "terrible tosh, with danger attached. It turns a great (and greatly miserable) Third World nation into a gossip-column annexe. We may all choke on such frivolity."[74] After the 2008 general elections, political columnist Azam Khalil addressed Khan as one of the "utter failures in Pakistani politics".[75]

[edit]Awards and honours

Khan in Germany

Khan is featured in the University of Oxford's Hall of Fame and has been an honorary fellow of Oxford's Keble College.[41]

In 1976 as well as 1980, Khan was awarded The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for being the leading all-rounder in English first-class cricket.

In 1983, he was also named Wisden Cricketer of the Year

In 1983, he had received the president’s Pride of Performance Award

In 1985, Sussex Cricket Society Player of the Year

In 1990, Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year[21]

In 1992, Khan was given Pakistan's civil award, the Hilal-i-Imtiaz

On 8 July 2004, Khan was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 Asian Jewel Awards in London, for "acting as a figurehead for many international charities and working passionately and extensively in fund-raising activities."[76]

On 7 December 2005, Khan was appointed the fifth Chancellor of the University of Bradford, where he is also a patron of the Born in Bradford research project.

On 13 December 2007, Khan received the Humanitarian Award at the Asian Sports Awards in Kuala Lumpur for his efforts in setting up the first cancer hospital in Pakistan.[77]

On 5 July 2008, he was one of several veteran Asian cricketers presented special silver jubilee awards at the inaugural Asian cricket Council (ACC) award ceremony in Karachi.[78]

In 2009, at International Cricket Council's centennial year celebration, Khan was one of fifty-five cricketers inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.[79]

In 2011 he was given Jinnah award.