PM Imran declared Muslim world’s ‘Man of the year’ by Jordanian institute – Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan has been declared "Man of the Year" of the Muslim world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center, an independent research entity affiliated with an independent Islamic non-governmental international institute based in Jordan.

The prime minister has been honored at the eleventh annual edition of & # 39; The Muslim 500: The World & # 39; s 500 Most
Influential Muslim magazine. This publication seeks to determine the influence that some Muslims have on almost 1.93 billion people who share their faith throughout the world.

Among the 500 influential Muslims, the magazine highlights the top 50 who are led by the two main personalities entitled & # 39; Man of the Year & # 39; and & # 39; Woman of the year & # 39 ;. The publication selects Muslim individuals from a range of influence categories, 13 in total, which include scholars, politicians, religious affairs administration, business, science and technology.

Professor S. Abdallah Schleifer, professor emeritus of journalism at the American University of Cairo and editor in chief of the project "The Muslim 500", while declaring Prime Minister Imran as the "Man of the Year", wrote that his search for the Peace with neighboring India gave her the right. for the honor

Professor Schleifer, in his note, highlighted the prime minister's career as a cricket player and paid him a rich tribute. "If The Muslim 500 were printed in 1992 and I was then editor-in-chief, I would have nominated Imran Khan as our Muslim Man of the Year because of his brilliant performance in cricket, which culminated in Pakistan's victory in the Cricket World Cup of 1992 – a sport that I have always admired for its combination of elegance and intense competitive play. "

Speaking about the subsequent campaign of the Prime Minister for Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, he wrote: "It also moved me when Khan launched a successful fundraising campaign to establish a hospital dedicated to both the care of cancer victims and the investigation".

"This was his magnificent response to his mother's loss from cancer in 1985 and given Khan's extraordinary popularity among Pakistanis both at home and among the large number of Pakistani expatriates along with his own, no doubt, generous personal contribution – he raised sufficient funds so that in 1994 the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital opened its doors in Lahore. 75 percent of its patients receive free care. "

The author in his report also shed light on the political struggle of the prime minister. He wrote: "Imran Khan became Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018 after 22 years dedicated to building an opposition political party committed to reform; confronting Pakistan's civil political establishment on the issue of corruption and mismanagement." .

However, it was the initiatives of Prime Minister Imran for a lasting peace with the traditional Indian archrival that qualified him for honor, according to Professor Schleifer.

"What is particularly important to him is that, assuming office in August 2018, Imran Khan made it very clear that one of his top priorities was to work for a lasting peace with India. He wanted to normalize relations through trade and set the Kashmir dispute. "

"Both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers. And given the three previous examples of conventional armed conflicts, the prime minister had to be more aware than anyone in Pakistan than to the great depth of India on land, population and the size of its weapons forces, conventional warfare was a route that would lead to Pakistan's disaster. "

The author recalled that in his first television broadcast as prime minister, "Imran Khan addressed not only the people of Pakistan and the world, but in particular India: Imran Khan declared that Pakistan wanted a lasting peace with India and & # 39 ; if I took a step forward, we would take two steps & # 39 ;.

"Imran Khan did not wait for that step. A meeting was organized between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2018, but India canceled the meeting," he said, adding that in the The same month, the Prime Minister also wrote the first of his three letters to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, calling for dialogue and lasting peace. Modi did not answer.

"Khan writes that after Modi's re-election in June, he congratulated him and expressed his hope that they can work together for peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia. A month later, Khan repeated his hopes in another Letter more to Modi. Again Modi, as in all previous cases, chose not to respond. "

The author culminated: "So, this is Imran Khan's great dilemma: how to achieve a very desired lasting peace with a nation ruled by those who have no interest or need to make a lasting peace with Pakistan, and against whom any form of war would be useless. The answer would seem that Khan's efforts must now focus on mobilizing global opinion, to turn an RSS-led India into a global outcast. "

The prime minister shares the most prominent Muslim title in the world with the American congresswoman pioneer Rashida Tlaib, who has been named the most prominent Muslim woman of the year by the institute.

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Imran had been named among the & # 39; 100 most influential people & # 39; of 2019 by Hour magazine.