Javed Miandad 'regrets' helping Imran Khan become Pakistan PM

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Javed Miandad said that he helped fellow cricketer Imran Khan become the Prime Minister but now regrets it, ARY News reported. In an interview with ARY News, Javed Miandad disclosed that he ‘helped ’Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan to become prime minister of the country but regretted that he never thanked him. On his cricketing career, Javed Miandad said that whenever he played for the national team, he tried to keep the margin to a minimum if the team lost and none of the players objected to his captaincy.

Javed Miandad was one of the youngest to assume the role of captaincy for Pakistan at the age of 22. Imran Khan was the captain of the 1992 Pakistan cricket team when it won the World Cup. Javed Miandad was also part of that squad.

In the interview Javed Miandad also said that his father was very fond of cricket, «me and all of my brothers played in the streets as well as on the roof.» Imran Khan is founder and chairman of the Pakistan political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and was prime minister of the country from 2018 to 2022. Imran Khan was ousted as Pakistan's prime minister in April last year after the opposition parties led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) brought a no-confidence motion against his government and won it. Since then, the cricketer-turned-politician, has been at loggerheads with the Pakistan Army, accusing the powerful institution to be behind the plot to oust him.