# Imran Khan ## The power he actually held Imran Khan was prime minister of Pakistan from 18 August 2018 to 10 April 2022. Article 91 made him chief executive. It did not make him the author of an IMF board minute or of a Rangers arrest warrant. As of August 2026 he is a prisoner at Adiala, briefly moved to a public hospital on a Supreme Court order and sent back when doctors declared him fit. A prisoner is not a shadow prime minister. That limit is the first fact about his power. The second is that the army’s extra-constitutional weight set what he could pass in office and what he could not stop later. A politician who delivered Ehsaas and Kartarpur, then tried to dissolve the House to keep it, is not a commentator. ## What went wrong, and what is proven The sharpest institutional cost from his own hand is the [3 April 2022 dissolution advice](/facts/pk-imran-dissolution-2022). He advised President Arif Alvi to dissolve the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) to block a no-confidence vote. The Supreme Court restored the House. A constitutional crisis is a completed act. It is not a finding that the United States wrote the no-confidence. [Inflation and a reserves squeeze](/facts/pk-imran-inflation-2022) in his last year, and a [stalled IMF programme](/facts/pk-imran-imf-stall-2022), are dated macroeconomic costs. [9 May 2023](/facts/pk-imran-may9-2023) followed his Rangers arrest: military installations were attacked. He denies incitement. The riot is a completed event. Incitement as his personal order is not stored as a completed fact without a finished judgment that says so. The cost inflicted on him is also official. [5 August 2023](/facts/pk-imran-toshakhana-arrest-2023) a [sessions](/people/jeff-sessions) court sentenced him to three years in the first Toshakhana gifts case and he was arrested from Zaman Park. [17 January 2025](/facts/pk-imran-alqadir-2025) an accountability court at Adiala sentenced him to 14 years in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case; he denies theft and has appealed. [December 2025](/facts/pk-imran-toshakhana-ii-2025) added a Toshakhana-II term. Some earlier cipher and iddat convictions were later acquitted. A conviction is a court instrument. An acquittal is another. [Continued detention into 2026](/facts/pk-imran-adiala-2026), including a hospital visit that ended with a return to Adiala, is a completed custody path. Medical access fights are not a finding that every charge is a fake. ## What improved, and how far [Shaukat Khanum](/facts/pk-imran-shaukat-khanum-1994) is a completed cancer hospital he raised money for and opened. The [1992 World Cup](/facts/pk-imran-world-cup-1992) is a completed sporting instrument with a [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) path. [PTI’s founding](/facts/pk-imran-pti-1996) is a completed party launch. The [2018 election and oath](/facts/pk-imran-pm-2018) are completed democratic rotation. Ehsaas is a completed social-protection architecture. Kartarpur is a completed visa-free Sikh corridor with India. The [10-billion-tree](/facts/pk-imran-ten-billion-trees-2018) campaign is a completed afforestation drive, with survival rates as a leak. NCOC is a completed COVID coordination body. The [2019 EFF](/facts/pk-imran-imf-2019) is a completed Fund programme he later let stall. [KP 2013](/facts/pk-imran-kp-2013) is a completed first provincial government. ## Shared responsibility, and what the score does not say Shehbaz Sharif, GHQ, NAB judges, Narendra Modi on Kartarpur, IMF staff, and Donald Trump are not extras. Treating Khan as sole author of 2021–22 inflation, or as a bystander on the 2022 dissolution, would be the same error in opposite directions. The score does not say he stole Toshakhana watches as a unique personal confession beyond the judgment. It does not say 9 May was his radioed order. It does not say Ehsaas rebates a 14-year sentence. Confidence is high on the oath, the dissolution advice, hospital openings, and named court texts, and medium where FIA, GHQ, and later CPI sit between a signature and a welfare series. Related people on this page are the successor who now holds the House, Indian and Chinese counterparts, Gulf and Western principals, and the UN secretary-general who shared flood weather after Khan had already left office. A former prime minister is powerful enough to have owned those gazettes. He is not powerful enough, from Adiala, to be the unique author of a 2026 Finance Act, and the catalog keeps that line visible. ## Dated facts - 2026: Khan is returned to Adiala Jail after a court-ordered hospital examination. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-adiala-2026. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-taken-back-prison-hospital-2026-08-21/, https://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/. - 2025: Court sentences Khan in the Toshakhana-II gifts case. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-toshakhana-ii-2025. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-court-sentences-imran-khan-toshakhana-gifts-2025-12-20/, https://nab.gov.pk/. - 2025: Accountability court sentences Khan to 14 years in the Al-Qadir Trust case. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-alqadir-2025. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly77v0n8e9o, https://nab.gov.pk/. - 2024: Courts later acquit Khan and Bushra Bibi on the iddat/unlawful-marriage file. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-iddat-acquittal-2024. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-court-acquits-imran-khan-marriage-case-2024-07-13/, https://www.islamabadhighcourt.gov.pk/. - 2024: Islamabad High Court acquits Khan on the cipher Official Secrets case. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-cipher-acquittal-2024. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-court-acquits-imran-khan-cipher-case-2024-06-03/, https://www.islamabadhighcourt.gov.pk/. - 2023: Toshakhana sentence also triggers a statutory disqualification path. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-toshakhana-disqualify-2023. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-disqualified-after-toshakhana-verdict-2023-08-05/, https://www.ecp.gov.pk/. - 2023: Sessions court sentences Khan to three years in the Toshakhana gifts case; he is arrested. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-toshakhana-arrest-2023. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-sentenced-three-years-jail-2023-08-05/, https://www.islamabadhighcourt.gov.pk/. - Khan’s 9 May 2023 arrest is followed by attacks on military installations. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-may9-2023. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-arrested-court-2023-05-09/, https://ispr.gov.pk/. - 2022: Khan leads a post-ouster long march that ends after an assassination attempt in Wazirabad. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-long-march-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-imran-khan-shot-and-wounded-at-protest-rally-2022-11-03/, https://www.interior.gov.pk/. - 2022: National Assembly removes Imran Khan on a no-confidence vote. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-noconfidence-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-ousted-after-losing-no-confidence-vote-2022-04-09/, https://na.gov.pk/. - 2022: Khan advises dissolution of the National Assembly to block a no-confidence vote. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-dissolution-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-faces-no-confidence-vote-2022-04-03/, https://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/. - 2022: CPI inflation and a reserves squeeze mark Khan’s last months in office. https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-inflation-2022. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-inflation-hits-12-year-high-imf-talks-stall-2022-03-01/, https://www.pbs.gov.pk/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan