Khan also said that he wants balanced relations between Pakistan and America which should be mutually beneficial, not one sided. In his victory speech last month, Khan said he was ready to improve Pakistan's ties with India and his government would like the leaders of the two sides to resolve all disputes, including the "core issue" of Kashmir, through talks. His party has prepared a 100-day plan to meet serious economic and administrative woes faced by the country. He believes the "most viable" policy to ensure peace in the region was to cooperate with India, including on the Kashmir issue. Khan, who is believed to have the backing of the powerful military, has vowed to make a 'Naya Pakistan' which would be an Islamic welfare state. The violent protests ended after Khan and Qadiri entered into an agreement with the Sharif government to set up a judicial commission to probe the allegations of poll rigging.ĭuring his campaign in the 2018 elections, Khan promised to crackdown on corruption, enact anti-poverty programmes, improve healthcare and education and turn his country into an Islamic welfare state. Within a month, Khan entered into an alliance with influential Pakistani-origin Canadian cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri with both pressing for dismissal of the Sharif government. In August 2014, Khan led a rally of his supporters from Lahore to Islamabad, demanding Sharif's resignation and investigation into alleged electoral fraud. One year after elections, in May 2014, Khan alleged that the polls were rigged in favour of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz led by then prime minister Nawaz Sharif. He was again elected to the National Assembly in the 2013 elections, when his party emerged as the second largest in the country by popular vote.
Khan became a Member of Parliament in the 2002 elections. The Oxford-educated Pasthun launched Tehreek-e-Insaf, which means the movement for justice, in 1996, but struggled to break the dominance of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) - the two main political parties that dominated Pakistan's political scene when the powerful military was not ruling the country.
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