Quotes by Imran Khan

“The board should never have offered England the choice of playing a test or one-dayer in Karachi.”

“There are security concerns everywhere in the world given the prevailing circumstances. England must keep this in mind.”

“The board should never have offered England the choice of playing a Test or one-dayer in Karachi. They should have insisted on having a Test in Karachi and not wavered from their stand especially after the bomb blasts in London. There are security concerns everywhere in the world given the prevailing circumstances. England must keep this in mind.”

“The problem is that there are no quality bowlers, just mediocre ones that look good.”

“reform of the courts, a return to democracy and the demise of the crooks currently running the country.”

“Helping the people of that devastated country is not an offense.”

“Today, as a Pakistani, I am ashamed to see that our people are being treated like this in our own country,”

“I want to ask, does Pakistan have sovereignty at all? They are cooperating with America in the war against terrorism, but can they not distinguish between cooperation and slavery?”

“This is a mania in Pakistan and in India and it is for us to derive full advantage which we have done in the marketing contracts of television and other rights,”

“The procedure was a short one and it was successful. Chris is awake and alert and will remain under observation overnight. He will be discharged on Thursday and will remain in Melbourne before leaving Australia,”

The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

When I was older, I found Iqbals work hugely inspirational. He argued against an unquestioning acceptance of Western democracy as the self-governing model, and instead suggested that by following the rules of Islam a society would tend naturally towards social justice, tolerance, peace and equality. Iqbals interpretation of Islam differs very widely from the narrow meaning that is sometimes given to it. For Iqbal, Islam is not just the name for certain beliefs and forms of worship. The difference between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is not merely a theological one - it is a difference of a fundamental attitude towards life.

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Allah exalts whom he wills!

I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt I saw no Muslims in Europe but I saw a lot of Islam, and of his homeland There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.