# Imran Khan founds Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Date: 1996

## The fact

On 25 April 1996 [Imran Khan](/people/imran-khan) launched [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf](/organizations/pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf) as a new political party.

## Context

Party office is not state office. Early electoral showings were weak. The later 2018 win is a neighbouring later row. He did not write the 1973 constitution.

The 2013 KP government and 2018 premiership are later.

A cricket captain and charity founder does not write federal statutes, IMF letters, or army orders. A trophy is not a cabinet minute. A hospital trust is not a health ministry. A party launch is not an election return. A sit-in is not a gazette. A fundraising dinner is not a Finance Act.

## Evidence and sources

Election Commission of Pakistan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [political polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed new party increased electoral choice and later bloc conflict.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 25 April 1996 PTI launch by Khan, independently reported.

Not established: that the party immediately governed, or a unique later turnout coefficient from the launch night.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

ECP registered. Voters later decided. The army did not file the papers.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Imran Khan founds Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, not a later speech about Imran Khan founds Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Imran Khan founds Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on 1996-04-25 is not a licence to treat every later Election Commission of Pakistan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Imran Khan founds Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He founded the party. ECP registered. Voters later decided. The army did not file the papers. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-khan-idUSKCN1L51PT
- https://www.ecp.gov.pk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-pti-1996