In power he seemed restless and distracted, as if he wanted to be back on the street. While in opposition he was focused, hammering away at Pakistan’s rulers on his pet themes of corruption and nepotism. Last month he lectured foreign ministers of Muslim countries about how porn was responsible for rising divorce rates. In his head he was not only the leader of Pakistan but also the leader of ummah (community of Muslims) who can also do 60 pushups on the go. He surrounded himself with the politicians he had claimed were the root cause of Pakistan’s problems.Īs prime minister, Khan avoided dealing with the country’s structural problems, instead going on a moral crusade because in his youth he had lived a life of sin in the west and now he was not only atoning for it but wanted to be a spiritual father to the nation. Before coming to power he stated that he would rather die than go to the IMF for a loan a few months after he did, he went begging to the institution. In order to get his dream job, he got rid of his idealism. Approaching 70, he transformed into that angry young man who passionately delivers one contradictory sentence after another.įor more than two decades, Khan was an outlier in Pakistani politics, more popular with London’s posh set than Pakistani voters a sports celebrity who wanted to be the saviour king. But when he became prime minister he learned to emote. Even in moments of glory, he offered half-hearted high fives and reluctant, two-tap hugs. As a cricketer, Khan was always shy of showing his emotion. The US would never do it to India, he said. In his subsequent 8 April address to the nation, Khan reiterated his claim that it was the US that wanted him out he asked people if they wanted to be a free nation or American slaves.

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