When Imran Khan was about charity and not politics – SBS TV interview in 1994

Twenty-four years ago, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the foundation of his political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. But it was just two years before he said he does not want to join the mainstream politics in Pakistan.

In his interview with SBS TV in 1994, Imran Khan who was at that time hosting charity events in Australia for a cancer hospital in his mother’s name (now Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital) said that his current priority was charity work.

“You get stuck in other areas and you cannot concentrate on the real issues,” Imran Khan told SBS TV.

On the question of the performance of the government at that time, Khan said the government and the opposition just focus on blaming each other, “you don't know who to believe.”

But for Khan, the government should focus on two aspects irrespective of politics.

“I feel that the government's primary aim should be health and education in our country.”

Watch the full interview of Imran Khan with SBS host Mary Kostakidis in 1994  program, “The Talk Show with Mary Kostakidis".

 

 

Source: SBS Archive