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As a cricket star, Khan became famous around the world. At that time he had the reputation of a playboy. Now, he is considered a friend of the Islamists and the army – so that he can win the elections in Pakistan.
By Silke Diettrich, ARD-New Delhi Studio
On one of the hills above Islamabad, Imran Khan receives his huge estate. All dressed in white, firm handshake and full of self-confidence. He is very confident that he will win the elections this time, he says.
For 22 years, the former cricketer has been warming up to finally reach the top of politics. With his movement for justice, he wants to free Pakistan from corruption: "I've never been in power, so I can not be corrupt," he says. "I made my money abroad and I brought it to Pakistan.
Playboy's Call
A sports star, Khan was renowned for being a playboy in the West. As a politician, critics say, he has now joined the Islamists in Pakistan to defeat the two other parties that have ruled the country for years. "The families that led the parties have become billionaires," he criticizes. "They washed their money from the country, so the poor of the country became even poorer and the little elite even richer."
In fact, the most important political opponent of Khans was sentenced to ten years in prison. Nawaz Sharif was forced to resign as prime minister last year for distorting his real estate overseas.
Meanwhile, Sharif, who served as prime minister in Pakistan three times, was also banned from politics. The way seems free for the ruler Khan. "I think the other parties are collapsing," he says with conviction
For decades, the military has ruled
because the country's third largest party, led by Bilawal Bhutto, is far behind in the polls. Bhutto's offspring is 29 years old: his mother Benazir was Pakistan's prime minister in the 1990s and was murdered more than a decade ago in an attack. His grandfather, president and prime minister, has put to death the Pakistani army.
Half the time in the 70 years of Pakistan's history was ruled by the army. The other half, of which there is little doubt, had at least the power to crown or abandon the civilian leadership.
Today, the third civilian government is elected immediately, but also offensively that this time, complains Now the independent human rights commission in Pakistan, the army does not Never intervened in the election campaign: "Who decides decisions here, which are always directed against all parties except the Imran Khan?", Says President Hina Jilani. "He just seems to be the favorite, because you have to count only one and one."
Pressure on Politicians
The military has exercised these past weeks and months of pressure on journalists, politicians and judges, especially Sharif Party, the biggest competition for Khan, to discredit. Khan rejects this accusation, but in essence he agrees with the same tenor: "The other parties will be crushed in the elections".
Then the man in white dress rushes, carrying a convoy of white jeeps. The license plate on his car should probably leave no doubt who will be at the top after the elections in Pakistan: He is number one.
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