*NEW YORK: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has been featured in the ForeignPolicy (FP) magazine’s 2019 annual list of top ‘100 Global Thinkers’.*
According to the FP, “In 2018, Khan, a former cricket star, finally got thejob he had long coveted: prime minister. His reward was an incrediblydifficult-to-do list, starting with Pakistan’s looming fiscal and debtcrisis.”
The magazine describes the list as a special edition, as it has beenreleased for the 10th consecutive year.
“The first group comprises thinkers who have had enormous impact on theworld in the past decade. The other groups are for people who have beeninfluential in the past year: thinkers and doers 40 and under, as well asthose in defense and security, energy and climate, technology, economicsand business, science and health, and activism and the arts. We reserved 10spots to be picked by our readers. And, finally, we have a group of 10great minds who died in 2018,” it explains.
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The full list of 100 releases will be released on Jan 22.
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Last year, in October, PM Khan was featured among the top 50 World’s MostInfluential Muslims’ list of 2019.
The list also contained three other Pakistanis, namely; Justice SheikhMuhammad Taqi Usmani, who was on the 6th, Haji Muhammad Abdul-Wahhab, emirof Tablighi Jamaat on 14th and Maulana Tariq Jameel, religious scholar onthe 40th spot.According to the list titled ‘World’s Most InfluentialMuslims’, PM Khan had secured the 29th spot in the prestigiouslist, prepared annually by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic StudiesCentre.
However, PM Khan was ranked 15th in the list of Muslim rulers andpoliticians.
