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Thursday, November 24, 2005
Imran Khan made chancellor of Bradford University - Daily Times
Former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan is all set to begin a new innings when he is installed as chancellor of the University of Bradford in a ceremony on December 7. IANS reported that Khan would succeed Baroness Betty Lockwood at the post. He will be the university’s fifth chancellor since its foundation in 1966. The chancellor’s post has a figurehead role, but appointing Khan to the high profile post is significant given that Bradford has a large population of Pakistan origin. Khan’s first duties will be to confer degrees on Bradford graduates and to lay the foundation stone for the university’s new Institute of Cancer Therapeutics on December 6.
Born in 1952 in Lahore, Khan was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore, where he proved to be a fine cricketer and made his first class test debut for Lahore against Sargodha at the age of 16. He was selected to play for the Pakistan cricket team in 1970 and very soon made a permanent place for himself in the national side. He finished his high school education at the Royal Grammar School at Worcester in England where he excelled in cricket. He went on to study Economics and Politics at Keble College, Oxford in 1972, where former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was his classmate. He was elected captain of the Oxford’s cricket team in 1974 but gave up the captaincy in 1975.
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