The former cricketer, Imran Khan, who studied at Oxford, is behind bars in Adalia Jail in relation to many cases. He has also served as the chancellor of Bradford University since 2005 up to 2014.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will contest for the post of Oxford University’s Chancellor from prison, The Telegraph reported.
Imran Khan, an Oxford alumnus, is behind bars in Adalia Jail regarding several charged cases. He will try to be selected online for the post because Lord Patten, the Tory Party chairman who occupied the post for 21 years, has recently resigned.
Imran Khan will stand for the chancellor of Oxford University as there is a public demand that he should stand,” assistant for Imran Khan for foreign media, Mr. Syed Zulfi Bukhari, said for the Telegraph.
“Once Khan gives his green light on this, we will publicly declare it and will begin the process of the signature campaign for it,” he averred.
Mr. Imran Khan joined Keble College of Oxford University in 1972 and specialized in Economics and Politics. He also worked as a chancellor of Bradford University from 2005 until the year 2014.
Apart from Imran Khan, some of the noteworthy contestants are former British Prime Ministers Sir Tony Blair and Boris Johnson.
This will be the first time when the elections for the chancellor will be conducted online and not the way when the graduates have to attend dressed formally.
By May 2023, Imran was in jail for treason for encouraging protests and violence against the mighty Pakistani military, which he contends that he did not do.
In a recent interview carried out before the cameras for the jail, he said, “I live in a 7-foot by 8-foot cell usually assigned for terrorists; people voted for me because they are sick of this current system and how Pakistan is being run.”
