My, how the mighty have fallen. Imran Khan, once handsome as sin and world cricket’s glamorous poster boy, then Pakistan’s rising political hero whom the electorate believed in because he was also that nation’s World Cup-winning captain and a sports legend, is now reduced to being a prisoner in the notorious Attock Prison of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on the banks of the Indus River serving a three-year sentence. If it’s any consolation to Imran, Pakistan has a chequered political history of arresting its Prime Ministers and allowing the military to intervene and run the country. But his incarceration, for corruption while being Prime Minister, could end Imran’s anyway shaky political career. The sentence could bar him from politics under a law that prohibits anyone with a criminal conviction from
holding or running for public office. Politics is the last resort of scoundrels. And Imran had really no
need to dip the pristine hands that once took down the world’s leading batsmen in that dirty pool. Unless, of course, he was a closet megalomaniac obsessed with delusions of grandeur and
power. He should have gracefully retired like our Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, his contemporaries, and taken up coaching, commentary, or modeling (like them) and still remained a hero. Instead, look where Imran Khan is today. In Pakistan’s infamous Attock Prison known for its harsh conditions and whose other
inmates include convicted militants. It has the strictest security of all, armed guards in watchtowers, and barricades that block all roads leading to it. Imran’s lawyers and party workers are unable to
reach him and so is the media. Nobody knows what’s happening in Pakistan and to its great sporting hero.
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.
With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
Further
His interviews have been featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.
Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.
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