During the Western war against the Afghan communist regime, it became a rear base for the mujahideen and Bin Laden's Arab fighters. However, for a decade, a cricket champion like no other has been trying to free him, make peace with India and create social services: Imran Khan.

The Pakistani population is rising up against its army and against its political personnel. Everywhere, demonstrations are forming to support the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, just released, but subject to a hundred legal proceedings.

Who is Imran Khan?

Imran Khan comes from an illustrious Pashtun family. He descends through his father from an Indian general and governor of Punjab, and through his mother from a Sufi master who invented the Pashto alphabet. He studied in Lahore, then in England at Oxford. He speaks Saraiki, Urdu, Pashto and English. He is a cricketer, the most important sport in Pakistan. He was captain of the national team in 1992 and managed to win the world cup. During the years 1992-96, he devoted himself exclusively to philanthropic activities, opening with the money of his family a hospital for cancer patients and a university. In 1996, he entered politics and created the Pakistan Justice Movement (PTI). He obtained a seat in the National Assembly in 2018, but was the only elected member of his training.

Imran Khan is not a politician like the others. He recognizes himself in the approach of Mohamed Iqbal (1877-1938), the spiritual father of Pakistan. He intended to break with the religious immobilism of Islam and undertake an effort of interpretation, but he remained prisoner of a community and legal vision of Islam. Imran Kahn only found his way by discovering the Iranian philosopher and sociologist Ali Shariati, a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon. Unknown in the West, Shariati proposed to his students to evaluate the precepts of Islam by applying them and to keep only those that they found useful. He himself engaged in a reinterpretation of Islam which fascinated young Iranians. He rose up against the regime of Shah Reza Pahlevi and supported Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, then in exile and considered a heretic by all Iranian clerics. He was assassinated by the shah's secret police, the sawak, in England in 1977, just before Khomeini's return to his country. So it was he who instigated the Iranian revolution, but he never experienced it.

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