Tag: Jemima Goldsmith

Arguably one of the best all-around cricket players in the history of the sport, skilled at both batting and bowling, Khan dominated the pitch in the 1970s and '80s. His glowing career culminated in a World Cup win for Pakistan in 1992, in which he told his team to "fight like cornered tigers," sporting T-shirts of the animal as a symbol of his tenacity. His nine-year marriage to -- and divorce from -- British socialite Jemima Goldsmith was widely reported on. "Corruption is eating away at this country like cancer. The reason the West is so far ahead is because there is law and order in place there. But some of Khan's associates and political allies also stand accused of corruption, and there is skepticism he will be able to being a clean government to power as effectively as he claims. While Khan has been a figure in Pakistani politics since the 1990s, his popularity has surged in recent years as Pakistan's middle class has grown angry and disenchanted, according to Zaidi. But Zaidi warns that Khan is a populist, and questions how much he might challenge Pakistan's restrictions on civil liberties. The country is divided into two camps, said journalist and former Pakistani ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani: those who think the military has a right to run the country and those who don't. "The groups that benefited from military rule, they don't like the political class that share this power," Haqqani said.