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Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (Pashto, Punjabi, Urdu: عمران احمد خان نیازی; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani former cricketer and politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidence motion. He is the founder and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), one of the largest political parties in the country. Born to a Niazi Pashtun family in Lahore, Khan graduated from England's Keble College in 1975. He began his international cricket career at age 18, in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan played until 1992, served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992, and won the 1992 Cricket World Cup, in what is Pakistan's first and only victory in the competition. Considered one of cricket's greatest all-rounders, Khan scored 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Khan founded cancer hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar, and Namal College in Mianwali, prior to his ascent in politics. He founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996, which won a seat in the National Assembly in the 2002 Pakistani general election, and saw Khan serve as an opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. PTI boycotted the 2008 Pakistani general election but later became the second-largest party by popular vote in the 2013 Pakistani general election. In the 2018 Pakistani general election, running on a populist platform, PTI emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly, and formed a coalition government with independents with Khan as Prime Minister. During his government, Khan addressed a balance of payments crisis with a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He presided over a shrinking current account deficit, and limited defence spending to curtail the fiscal deficit, leading to some general economic growth. He enacted policies that increased tax collection, as well as investment, and reforms were made to the Ehsaas Programme, the country's social safety net. His government committed to a renewable energy transition, launched the Plant for Pakistan initiative, and expanded protected areas of Pakistan, and presided over the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. His failure to revive the economy and the rising inflation rate caused him political problems. Despite his promised anti-corruption campaign, the perception of corruption in Pakistan worsened during his rule. He was accused of political victimisation of opponents and clamping down on freedom of expression and dissent.The country's first prime minister to be ousted through a no-confidence motion vote in parliament, Khan was charged in August 2022 by the Pakistani police under anti-terror laws after Khan accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing his close aide in. On 3 November 2022, he survived an assassination attempt in Wazirabad for which he blamed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Inter-Services Intelligence.