Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (b. October 5, 1952), the Pakistani politician, philanthropist and former cricketer who served as the 19th Prime Minister of the South Asian country from August 2018 to April 2022, has been nominated, among others, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to Human Rights and Democracy. He was previously nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his efforts to promote peace in South Asia. However, the cricketer-turned-politician did not receive the prize six years ago.

Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party, has been in jail since August 2023. In January, 2025, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement in corruption and also for misuse of authority. Earlier, a Human Rights and Democracy watchdog, called Pakistan World Alliance (PWA), requested the Norwegian political outfit, Partiet Centrum, to nominate Khan for the Nobel Peace Prize. Partiet Centrum, which accepted the request, said on X on March 29, 2025: “We are pleased to announce on behalf of Partiet Sentrum that in alliance with somebody with the right to nominate, have nominated Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, to the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with Human Rights and Democracy in Pakistan.”

Khan resigned as Prime Minister on April 10, 2022, embroiled in a rebellion within the PTI, an unprecedented alliance of Opposition parties, like the PML(N), Pakistan People’s Party, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal and Muttahida Qaumi Movement, and a series of reprimands from the Supreme Court of Pakistan. His public support was also at an all-time low at that time mainly because of the severe economic crisis that gripped Pakistan. He was, then, charged with multiple cases and sent to prison. His supporters allege that Khan was framed in false cases as a result of a conspiracy by a section of the Pakistani Army.

Marine Le Pen Sentenced To Prison For Fraud
A French court recently barred Marion Anne Perrine ‘Marine’ Le Pen, the leader of the Far-Right National Rally Party, from seeking Public Office for five years as she was found guilty of embezzling EU funds. She is accused of hiring workers for her party with public funds worth EUR 2.9 million. Out of the four-year sentence, Le Pen was placed under house arrest for two years with an ankle monitor, while the remaining two years were suspended.

It is a huge blow to her presidential ambitions as Le Pen could not contest the 2027 Presidential Elections. Although Le Pen would appeal the verdict in a higher court, she would be ineligible to run for the office of the French President till the time her hearing concludes. As expected, Le Pen has denounced the verdict as a politically motivated move aimed at preventing her from running in the 2027 Presidential Elections, stressing that millions of French people “are outraged”.

Le Pen told the press: “If that’s not a political decision, I don’t know what is.” She stated that the ruling marked a “fateful day for our democracy”, vowing to keep pursuing what she called the now “admittedly narrow” path to the presidency. The Far-Right leader stressed: “There are millions of French people who believe in me, millions of French people who trust me. For 30 years, I have been fighting for you, and for 30 years, I have been fighting against injustice. So, I am going to continue fighting.”

Boundless Ocean of Politics on Facebook

Boundless Ocean of Politics on Twitter

Boundless Ocean of Politics on Linkedin

Contact us: kousdas@gmail.com

Published by Koushik Das

Koushik Das (born on May 16, 1976 in Kolkata) is a career journalist. Based in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Koushik writes mainly about foreign policies and current geopolitical issues, and rarely about other topics. His own political ideas are highly influenced by Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michael Oakeshott and others. English philosopher and political theorist Oakeshott (Dec 11, 1901-Dec 19, 1990) says that “in political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea. There is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place, nor appointed destination. But we have to keep afloat”. (Rationalism in Politics, 1962) As a student of Political Science, Koushik loves to share his views on issues, which have great impacts on his thought process (and also on India, South Asia and of course on the global community), with his readers through his website – Boundless Ocean of Politics. By doing so, he tries to keep himself afloat. You will find some of his articles in https://inserbia.info/today/ (https://inserbia.info/today/author/kou_das13_i/), as he has been trying to assess the global geopolitics since 2003. You can also mail him at kousdas@gmail.com View all posts by Koushik Das