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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions for Imran Khan [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions for Imran Khan](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/RHSw25Af.m3u8) (5:53)  _Published 2011-11-02. Former international cricket star turned aspiring political player Imran Khan on Pakistan, terrorism, cricket fixing and marriage_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:18 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Imran Khan Arrested in Graft Probe, Stoking Anger in Pakistan](/video/FfZsv6OO/) ### Imran Khan Arrested in Graft Probe, Stoking Anger in Pakistan [An Interview With Imran Khan](/video/vLOYKQFT/) ### An Interview With Imran Khan [Cricket Star Imran Khan Declares Victory in Pakistan Election](/video/ENJihpBZ/) ### Cricket Star Imran Khan Declares Victory in Pakistan Election --- ## Transcript Today we're interviewing a man who's making a very difficult transition from sporting legend to political leader. Personally very gratified and excited to have in the ten questions chair, Mr. Imran Khan. Thank you. In your new book, Pakistan. You talk about how you were raised with English traditions. And, you went to English schools, and you went to Oxford, and you had to come to know and love your country, after that. How do you answer people who say that that shift is just one of political expediency? well, you know, the, the great leaders of the subcontinent. Gandhi. In Indian, and Nehru in India, who were the great Indian leaders, and then Jinnah in Pakistan, who was our great leader, and then the ideological, father of Pakistan, who's the great Iqbal. All of them actually were, went through similar experience. They, they went out of the Indian subcontinent, got western education, and then began to look upon their own societies differently. And they all took part in freedom struggles, in my case, it was that, that, it was compounded by the fact that I was a cricket player, who represented my country. The book of traces is an interesting ark of your. Kind of religious faith and you know as Australian growing up you know. You were regarded as something of a playboy as I recall among the Pakistani team. Your book seems to paint a different picture of yourself. Did you have some kind of an awakening? An epiphiney? An experience that led to that? It doesn't mean that you know what. There was some uh, regret or anything of my past life. We evolve, human beings, we are humans otherwise we'd be made angels. So, we make mistakes, we learn, we evolve. But it's specifically what is spirituality, it is much bigger thing than just about you know a playboy life or not. It is about lead, a spiritual life is different to. A material life, if that to extremes, and that you have a, as a spiritual person you have a responsibility to the society, you become selfless, there is a purpose to existence, because you know that the two main questions are answered, what are you doing on this earth, and what will happen to you after you die. So it only, religion can answer to that. You have a heroic status as, as a cricketer. There are very few sporting figures that have quite your resume. There's some Australians, maybe, but [ LAUGH ] that sporting prowess has not yet translated into a lot of political success. Why do you feel that is? Yes. Maya, the reason I went into politics was not to just be successful as a politician and be in power. I want, I want a change in Pakistan. We wanted to get rid of the system which is stopping the potential of the country going up. In other words, we are, the whole idea was to fight the political mafias in Pakistan. Th two man parties are basically their interests are the same. They are mafias. They come in to power, they plunder their country, they are, both the leaders of the two man parties have their wealth outside. Billions of dollars lying outside. All unaccounted for. And then they come in, and they have only two reasons. One is to make more money and the other is to protect their looted wealth. So, it was taking on the whole political lot. And it was always going to be difficult. But having said that, each month the lead grows between us and the number two party. Do you have confidence that cricket in Pakistan is clean at the moment? Well, let's put things in perspective. The patron of the cricket, cricket board is none other than Asif Ali Zardari known as a, as you know all over the world as Mr. Ten Percent. So you can't blame the poor cricketers if that's their role model. I don't think Pakistan cricket has has been clean. But I think that international cricket has not really been clean. It, it's almost impossible to detect sport fixing. It's almost impossible. But you can only, if you monitor the players bank accounts, that's one way of getting around this. Because there's so much money in it, there's so much gambling in cricket right now that, you know, you can't really expect. The lure of of, of, of money, which obvious, which is actually, cricket is get, there's more money in cricket than ever in history. The IPL, just to give you an idea, I played 21 years of international cricket, was one of the longest playing [ CROSSTALK ] I want numbers here, Ryan. No I said, 21 years. I In, in, in two months, a player makes more money than I did in 21 years of international, an ordinary test cricketer. Forget about a, I'm not talking about a certain [ UNKNOWN ]. So that's the sort of money there is in cricket. You you're writing a book how your wife Jemaima found it difficult to live in Pakistan and that contributed to the demise of your marriage. And you remain single. Is there going to be another Missus Imran Khan? I do not have time to give to marriage. Because at the moment there's so much happening. And, especially now, the party taking off. I just you know right now my main goal are the elections which will mean sometime next year. So what you're saying is you think you'll have a better chance of meeting women once you're elected. [ LAUGH ] Like Nicolas Sarkozy. Is that right? Is that the model we're going for? [ LAUGH ] Not really. Whatever my model Sarkozy is not my model. [ LAUGH ] Okay, Mr Emerincana it's been such a pleasure. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. 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