WEBVTT 00:00:14.944 --> 00:00:20.164 Let me start by saying that my first challenge was cricket. 00:00:20.164 --> 00:00:24.380 I was nine years old when I decided to become a test cricketer. 00:00:24.380 --> 00:00:29.360 I watched my older cousin Javed Burki scoring a century 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:32.851 at what should not be called Gaddafi Stadium now -- 00:00:32.851 --> 00:00:35.739 (Laughter) 00:00:35.739 --> 00:00:40.104 and I remember I made up my mind that I would be a test cricketer. 00:00:40.104 --> 00:00:45.955 Never after that, did I ever think that there was any possibility 00:00:45.955 --> 00:00:48.033 that I would not become a test cricketer, 00:00:48.033 --> 00:00:50.387 it was only a question of when. 00:00:50.387 --> 00:00:54.636 So along the way, there were a lot of problems which 00:00:54.636 --> 00:01:00.085 I hadn't foreseen at the time when I decided to become a test cricketer. 00:01:00.085 --> 00:01:05.467 But the thing about achieving the impossible is -- 00:01:05.467 --> 00:01:09.586 It's a question of handling the bad times. 00:01:09.586 --> 00:01:17.687 Because whenever you have a big goal or you take the untrodden path, 00:01:17.687 --> 00:01:21.928 be prepared that you're going to have some bad times. 00:01:21.928 --> 00:01:26.347 You will face setbacks, there will be failures 00:01:26.347 --> 00:01:30.438 but the people who actually win in the end, 00:01:30.438 --> 00:01:35.230 have this quality -- number one -- they never give up. 00:01:35.230 --> 00:01:37.285 You only loose when you give up. 00:01:37.285 --> 00:01:42.871 And secondly, they have the ability to cope with the bad times. 00:01:42.871 --> 00:01:48.962 Now my first bad time came when I played my first test match, 00:01:48.962 --> 00:01:54.539 I was dropped and when I came back the headline was "Imran Khan't". 00:01:54.539 --> 00:01:56.407 (Laughter) 00:01:56.407 --> 00:01:59.604 And I didn't play for the next three years, I was out of the team 00:01:59.604 --> 00:02:02.996 and everyone thought that that was it. 00:02:02.996 --> 00:02:05.720 But then I made my way back in the team 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:09.915 but the first shock I received, which I am telling you -- 00:02:09.915 --> 00:02:13.063 the bigger the goal, the more shocks you are going to have, 00:02:13.063 --> 00:02:17.186 the more setbacks, the more failures you should expect. 00:02:17.186 --> 00:02:20.997 So I played my first test at Lahore 00:02:20.997 --> 00:02:24.352 and I am walking out to bat 00:02:24.352 --> 00:02:27.084 and the right side, through the pavilion, 00:02:27.084 --> 00:02:31.221 there's a whole -- from right and through the hall, 00:02:31.221 --> 00:02:33.533 the whole Lahore was sitting there. 00:02:33.533 --> 00:02:36.280 All along the way as I walked to the middle 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.031 and remember it's 70 yards to the middle, 00:02:39.031 --> 00:02:46.295 all 70 yards it was cheering Lahore and "long live" the Lahore cheered, and so on. 00:02:46.295 --> 00:02:51.093 And wonderful noise all the way I walked to the wicket. 00:02:51.093 --> 00:02:55.952 But unfortunately in cricket you have something which no other sport has -- 00:02:55.952 --> 00:02:58.938 you can be out the first ball. 00:02:58.938 --> 00:03:00.873 And that's what happened. 00:03:00.873 --> 00:03:07.255 So now 70 yards back -- the same crowd -- 00:03:07.255 --> 00:03:11.988 (Applause) 00:03:11.988 --> 00:03:13.874 There are ladies sitting here 00:03:13.874 --> 00:03:17.351 so I will not tell you what they actually said to me. 00:03:17.351 --> 00:03:23.173 But I am telling in Lahore Punjabi, what I went through the 70 yards back, 00:03:23.173 --> 00:03:27.386 it might have been 70 miles I was walking. 00:03:27.386 --> 00:03:29.556 Anyway, I came back and I was in a shock. 00:03:29.556 --> 00:03:34.226 I said, "How can the same people who were just calling me lion, 00:03:34.226 --> 00:03:36.520 how could have they turned around and be saying 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:40.381 all those things they've said to me?" 00:03:40.381 --> 00:03:45.627 And [it took] quite a while to get over it. 00:03:45.627 --> 00:03:50.987 But then over the years, I got used to it. 00:03:50.987 --> 00:03:56.070 The other big time I can [tell about] was -- 00:03:56.070 --> 00:04:00.291 the sort of defeat that was very difficult, 00:04:00.291 --> 00:04:03.587 it was the first time we toured India and we lost. 00:04:03.587 --> 00:04:05.675 Now imagine that we've lost the series 00:04:05.675 --> 00:04:08.285 and we are flying off to Pakistan the next day. 00:04:08.285 --> 00:04:11.557 There is a team meeting going on. 00:04:11.557 --> 00:04:13.317 What is the team meeting [about]? 00:04:13.317 --> 00:04:16.154 How can we arrive in Lahore when everyone is asleep? 00:04:16.154 --> 00:04:19.341 (Laughter) 00:04:19.341 --> 00:04:25.176 So we came on a flight that arrived at 4 am in the morning. 00:04:25.176 --> 00:04:28.942 The custom people kept us there for three hours, 00:04:28.942 --> 00:04:30.855 until there was light 00:04:30.855 --> 00:04:33.910 and everything was confiscated, I still remember it. 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:36.373 Everything we had -- this is India, in those days 00:04:36.373 --> 00:04:38.975 the custom laws were much more strict. 00:04:38.975 --> 00:04:42.408 So everything was taken away from us by the custom official 00:04:42.408 --> 00:04:46.296 and for days we couldn't go out of our houses. 00:04:46.296 --> 00:04:49.123 The players had to hide in their houses, really, 00:04:49.123 --> 00:04:53.409 because the sort of anger the public felt. 00:04:53.409 --> 00:04:59.715 And the other setback I can tell you [about was] when I contested my first election. 00:04:59.715 --> 00:05:02.361 Our party was only five months old. 00:05:02.361 --> 00:05:06.854 I kept telling -- I was roaming around, everyone was due, 00:05:06.854 --> 00:05:09.265 there's doctor Alvi sitting there, 00:05:09.265 --> 00:05:11.734 they were all founding members of Tehreef-e-Insaf. 00:05:11.734 --> 00:05:14.864 So we had just formed this party, all well-meaning people 00:05:14.864 --> 00:05:18.910 wanting to do good in Pakistan, but with no experience in politics. 00:05:18.910 --> 00:05:21.723 So I went around campaigning everywhere 00:05:21.723 --> 00:05:26.476 and I saw a lot of people turned up. But, during the campaign, 00:05:26.476 --> 00:05:31.177 I realized clearly a five-month old party cannot contest elections. 00:05:31.177 --> 00:05:34.877 So our idea was that we would just go all over Pakistan, 00:05:34.877 --> 00:05:37.412 take the agenda of corruption to the people -- 00:05:37.412 --> 00:05:39.410 that corruption is the number one issue in Pakistan, 00:05:39.410 --> 00:05:43.593 and then just before the election we withdraw. 00:05:43.593 --> 00:05:46.450 So of course I was all prepared and quite enjoying my tour 00:05:46.450 --> 00:05:48.841 thinking that we are not going to contest election 00:05:48.841 --> 00:05:53.213 and loving all this sort of first time, going all over Pakistan. 00:05:53.213 --> 00:05:56.445 As I came back, about ten days before the election, 00:05:56.445 --> 00:05:59.790 we had a meeting, and we sat down 00:05:59.790 --> 00:06:05.243 and I said, "Look, now it's perfect, the party is all over Pakistan, 00:06:05.243 --> 00:06:08.467 we've got candidates all over the country, best time now 00:06:08.467 --> 00:06:12.180 to say that we boycott because at the time 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:14.128 the match was fixed. 00:06:14.128 --> 00:06:15.547 So we thought, 00:06:15.547 --> 00:06:18.536 "We are not going to win anyway. Best time to leave!" 00:06:18.536 --> 00:06:21.750 Of course, my team overruled me. 00:06:21.750 --> 00:06:23.919 They said, "No! We are going to win the election!", 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:26.645 because they had no idea what elections were. 00:06:26.645 --> 00:06:31.064 I warned them, I said, "Look, you know this could be a big disaster." 00:06:31.064 --> 00:06:35.685 And they had no idea what elections were -- all new people. 00:06:35.685 --> 00:06:39.219 So of course, the polling night, 00:06:39.219 --> 00:06:42.350 Tehreek-e-Insaf has a clean sweep, the other way around -- 00:06:42.350 --> 00:06:44.661 not one seat. (Laughter) 00:06:44.661 --> 00:06:47.497 Anyway, by this time, I am conditioned, 00:06:47.497 --> 00:06:49.979 I am conditioned to seeing ups and downs. 00:06:49.979 --> 00:06:54.013 So I had exactly developed the mechanism to cope with failure. 00:06:54.013 --> 00:06:57.947 First thing you do is, don't read the newspapers. (Laughter) 00:06:57.947 --> 00:07:00.144 What is the point of reading the newspapers 00:07:00.144 --> 00:07:02.215 when you know whatever is going be written 00:07:02.215 --> 00:07:04.609 is not going to be complimentary. 00:07:04.609 --> 00:07:08.585 Secondly, do not go to any public functions 00:07:08.585 --> 00:07:11.762 because when you go to a public function, 00:07:11.762 --> 00:07:16.077 you will get plenty of advice, because advice is free 00:07:16.077 --> 00:07:19.901 but the only problem is, the advice you get when you've lost, 00:07:19.901 --> 00:07:23.303 it's like rubbing salt on your wounds. 00:07:23.303 --> 00:07:26.019 So [the] best is to avoid people. 00:07:26.019 --> 00:07:30.783 Number three, try and go away somewhere where there's no one, 00:07:30.783 --> 00:07:34.283 like go to the Karakorum for a treking holiday, 00:07:34.283 --> 00:07:36.315 best time to be with the family. 00:07:36.315 --> 00:07:42.332 But the problem is, when you have a sound thrashing, 00:07:42.332 --> 00:07:45.214 failure has its own dynamics. 00:07:45.214 --> 00:07:49.139 What it does is, you will find that even your close friends 00:07:49.139 --> 00:07:52.459 view you differently, even they change their view. 00:07:52.459 --> 00:07:55.847 So if you expect all of this, 00:07:55.847 --> 00:07:57.721 then you can deal with failure very well 00:07:57.721 --> 00:08:01.198 because what failure does is something invaluable -- 00:08:01.198 --> 00:08:03.604 it gives you time for soul searching. 00:08:03.604 --> 00:08:06.946 It enables you to analyze your mistakes. 00:08:06.946 --> 00:08:09.812 It is the one time when you can learn. 00:08:09.812 --> 00:08:11.968 Failure can be the best teacher -- 00:08:11.968 --> 00:08:15.814 provided you do not get demoralized by failure. 00:08:15.814 --> 00:08:18.486 If you get demoralized, you've lost. 00:08:18.486 --> 00:08:22.399 If you can assess and analyze your mistakes, 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.818 it is a stepping stone to moving higher. 00:08:26.818 --> 00:08:30.116 All the people who I knew over my life who are successful 00:08:30.116 --> 00:08:33.376 have one quality, they could handle failure 00:08:33.376 --> 00:08:36.099 and they had the best analysis, 00:08:36.099 --> 00:08:39.059 they were the best critics of themselves. 00:08:39.059 --> 00:08:41.466 And if you have this ability -- 00:08:41.466 --> 00:08:43.667 and this is really what education should do, 00:08:43.667 --> 00:08:49.033 it should give you the ability to analyze yourself very well -- 00:08:49.033 --> 00:08:51.664 that is the time [when] you work to eliminate your mistakes 00:08:51.664 --> 00:08:53.465 and you get stronger. 00:08:53.465 --> 00:08:55.181 So the secret of success is that, 00:08:55.181 --> 00:08:57.084 each time you have a setback 00:08:57.084 --> 00:08:59.599 -- and remember the higher the goal, the more the setbacks -- 00:08:59.599 --> 00:09:02.522 each time you analyze, 00:09:02.522 --> 00:09:05.656 work hard to eliminate the mistake in anything you do, 00:09:05.656 --> 00:09:08.083 and then you can move forward. 00:09:08.083 --> 00:09:13.103 The biggest problem when you have a setback, 00:09:13.103 --> 00:09:18.499 is that there is a big temptation to scale down your dreams, 00:09:18.499 --> 00:09:20.335 to scale down your ambition, 00:09:20.335 --> 00:09:22.387 to suddenly expect something less of you. 00:09:22.387 --> 00:09:24.133 This is the biggest trap. 00:09:24.133 --> 00:09:28.684 Most people fail when they compromise on their dreams 00:09:28.684 --> 00:09:31.400 and the vision in times of weakness. 00:09:31.400 --> 00:09:34.637 It is the time when a person is vulnerable 00:09:34.637 --> 00:09:36.669 and in this state of vulnerability, 00:09:36.669 --> 00:09:38.966 you will make a fatal mistake 00:09:38.966 --> 00:09:40.821 by scaling down on your ambitions. 00:09:40.821 --> 00:09:42.599 I'll give you examples. 00:09:42.599 --> 00:09:48.261 When I started playing cricket, I was only 18, 00:09:48.261 --> 00:09:52.785 I saw Dennis Lillee, this great Australian fast bowler in England, 00:09:52.785 --> 00:09:55.549 and I wanted to be a fast bowler. 00:09:55.549 --> 00:09:58.042 Whenever I went to the coaches, 00:09:58.042 --> 00:09:59.827 the coaches would draw the senior players 00:09:59.827 --> 00:10:01.809 when I was playing country cricket. 00:10:01.809 --> 00:10:04.605 Everyone said, "You don't have the physique. 00:10:04.605 --> 00:10:06.530 You don't have the bowling action to become a fast bowler. 00:10:06.530 --> 00:10:08.436 You can't become a fast bowler." 00:10:08.436 --> 00:10:12.061 And every time they told me that if you try to change your action, 00:10:12.061 --> 00:10:15.282 you will lose all your natural gift. 00:10:15.282 --> 00:10:18.445 I am probably the only bowler in history 00:10:18.445 --> 00:10:23.271 who completely remodeled [his] action to suit [his] ambition. 00:10:23.271 --> 00:10:25.963 Because your body adjusts to your ambition. 00:10:25.963 --> 00:10:29.966 Your body will adjust. The body follows the mind. 00:10:29.966 --> 00:10:33.105 Mind is what is the power in a human being. 00:10:33.105 --> 00:10:36.680 The power of mind -- you can only discover 00:10:36.680 --> 00:10:39.513 this power when you look inside 00:10:39.513 --> 00:10:41.731 and put yourself against challenges, 00:10:41.731 --> 00:10:43.615 the more you challenge yourself, 00:10:43.615 --> 00:10:45.915 the more strength you will discover inside you. 00:10:45.915 --> 00:10:48.154 And then, later on, 00:10:48.154 --> 00:10:52.081 When I used to play for the Pakistan team, I always remember. 00:10:52.081 --> 00:10:56.139 The captain -- all the captains -- before we went out to the field, 00:10:56.139 --> 00:10:59.700 in the team meetings, we used to be told, 00:10:59.700 --> 00:11:02.451 "First priority is not to lose." 00:11:02.451 --> 00:11:04.937 And then winning was a bonus. 00:11:04.937 --> 00:11:07.061 Now this is a big difference, remember, 00:11:07.061 --> 00:11:10.597 the positive mindset is, "We will win," 00:11:10.597 --> 00:11:14.343 [the] negative mindset is, "We should not lose." 00:11:14.343 --> 00:11:19.781 Any policies you make out of fear, are destined for disaster. 00:11:19.781 --> 00:11:22.927 Whenever you make your own policies in life 00:11:22.927 --> 00:11:26.075 they should never be determined out of fear of anything. 00:11:26.075 --> 00:11:29.325 And the worst fear is the fear of losing, 00:11:29.325 --> 00:11:32.502 because the fear of losing stops you from winning. 00:11:32.517 --> 00:11:36.550 During a match, for instance, and in life also, 00:11:36.550 --> 00:11:41.631 your opponents will always sometimes make a mistake. 00:11:41.631 --> 00:11:47.351 The people who [are] champions, who have positive outlook, 00:11:47.351 --> 00:11:49.182 in other words are looking to win, 00:11:49.182 --> 00:11:50.782 they would grab that moment. 00:11:50.782 --> 00:11:53.694 But players who go on the defensive, scared of losing, 00:11:53.694 --> 00:11:55.896 they will miss out on these moments. 00:11:55.896 --> 00:11:57.514 So the killer instinct is that, when your opponent 00:11:57.514 --> 00:11:59.545 makes a mistake, you grab it. 00:11:59.545 --> 00:12:01.661 You don't let him get back off the mat. 00:12:01.661 --> 00:12:03.077 But you can only do that 00:12:03.077 --> 00:12:05.281 if you are going in with the right frame of mind. 00:12:05.281 --> 00:12:08.663 And it's exactly the [same] thing in life. 00:12:08.663 --> 00:12:10.998 Whatever your dreams are, 00:12:10.998 --> 00:12:14.678 never think that you would not achieve it. 00:12:14.678 --> 00:12:19.647 I have never ever thought that whatever I put my mind to, 00:12:19.647 --> 00:12:23.205 never hesitated in my mind that I won't achieve it. 00:12:23.205 --> 00:12:26.409 And in politics, I have been 15 years. 00:12:26.409 --> 00:12:27.958 So you would have thought that I would have been 00:12:27.958 --> 00:12:30.347 now feeling -- that a lot of people -- 00:12:30.347 --> 00:12:35.141 (Urdu) 00:12:35.141 --> 00:12:37.101 A lot of people tell me, 00:12:37.101 --> 00:12:39.411 "You've been [in politics for] 15 years and you haven't succeeded." 00:12:39.411 --> 00:12:42.090 But it depends what you are aiming for. 00:12:42.090 --> 00:12:44.294 What is it that you want? 00:12:44.294 --> 00:12:46.392 What are the goals you've set yourself? 00:12:46.392 --> 00:12:48.741 Is it just to become a prime minister? 00:12:48.741 --> 00:12:52.682 Is it just to become a member of the Parliament, a minister? 00:12:52.682 --> 00:12:54.507 What is your ambition? 00:12:54.507 --> 00:12:58.689 The greater the ambition, the [harder] work you've got to do. 00:12:58.689 --> 00:13:00.813 There are no shortcuts in life. 00:13:00.813 --> 00:13:03.507 If you want to achieve something big, 00:13:03.507 --> 00:13:07.540 there's no such thing as a quick way of achieving anything great. 00:13:07.540 --> 00:13:09.710 You have to go through the process, 00:13:09.710 --> 00:13:12.412 because it is the process what makes you, 00:13:12.412 --> 00:13:14.864 it's the process what strengthens you, 00:13:14.864 --> 00:13:18.302 and each time you fall and pick yourself up, 00:13:18.302 --> 00:13:20.522 you come back much stronger. 00:13:20.522 --> 00:13:23.942 But the secret is, you never ever give up. 00:13:23.942 --> 00:13:26.514 You only lose when you give up. 00:13:26.514 --> 00:13:29.028 And the ability to handle the bad times -- 00:13:29.028 --> 00:13:31.792 know you should develop a mechanism, 00:13:31.792 --> 00:13:39.128 [for] vulnerable times, [not] suddenly giving up on your mission. 00:13:39.128 --> 00:13:42.947 So we wanted to build a cancer hospital, 00:13:42.947 --> 00:13:47.913 I wanted to build [it] because [of] seeing my mother in pain -- 00:13:47.913 --> 00:13:52.776 but [also after] realizing what happens to a poor man when he gets cancer, 00:13:52.776 --> 00:13:55.216 because I realize the cost of cancer treatment, 00:13:55.216 --> 00:14:00.311 and I realized that if people like us can barely afford cancer treatment outside Pakistan, 00:14:00.311 --> 00:14:03.160 what happens to ordinary Pakistanis? 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:06.814 That was the reason. So I campaigned for the hospital, 00:14:06.814 --> 00:14:10.359 that it would primarily be a free hospital -- 00:14:10.359 --> 00:14:12.861 and secondly, it would not distinguish between the rich and the poor, 00:14:12.861 --> 00:14:16.143 because when I took my mother for treatment in England, 00:14:16.143 --> 00:14:19.410 she was in this hospital where there was 00:14:19.410 --> 00:14:23.263 a national health patient, and she was on the next bed, paying [for] it. 00:14:23.263 --> 00:14:26.545 No difference, the nurse and doctors didn't treat them any differently. 00:14:26.545 --> 00:14:30.945 So the other ambition was to have a hospital where there were no VIPs. 00:14:30.945 --> 00:14:36.595 Anyway, when the hospital opened in 1994-'95, 00:14:36.595 --> 00:14:38.057 we had this American administrator 00:14:38.057 --> 00:14:40.489 and the first thing he said was that 00:14:40.489 --> 00:14:43.860 "You would not be able to treat more than 5% of the patients [for] free, 00:14:43.860 --> 00:14:46.123 if you do, the hospital will close down." 00:14:46.123 --> 00:14:47.862 So here we were, the board, 00:14:47.862 --> 00:14:50.844 we [were] not the technocrats, he was the technocrat, 00:14:50.844 --> 00:14:53.441 him telling us that the hospital will close -- 00:14:53.441 --> 00:14:57.194 you won't be able to afford it, you will go bankrupt. 00:14:57.194 --> 00:14:59.731 You know 15 years later, we overruled him 00:14:59.731 --> 00:15:01.212 because that's what we stood for. 00:15:01.212 --> 00:15:04.792 All the money I've [collected, for the majority to] be treated free. 00:15:04.792 --> 00:15:11.808 15 years later, we were awarded by the WHO as a center of excellence 00:15:11.808 --> 00:15:15.797 and the only private cancer hospital anywhere in the world 00:15:15.797 --> 00:15:18.640 which gives over 75% free treatment. 00:15:18.640 --> 00:15:22.685 (Applause) 00:15:22.685 --> 00:15:29.188 And then I was in my constituency in Mianwali, I was campaigning, 00:15:29.188 --> 00:15:34.389 I discovered a lot of young men who were unemployed 00:15:34.389 --> 00:15:38.306 and who ended up either on very high rate of drug addiction 00:15:38.306 --> 00:15:40.170 and secondly crime. 00:15:40.170 --> 00:15:43.302 So I thought I'll build a little technical college 00:15:43.302 --> 00:15:45.930 so that they can come in, give them few skills 00:15:45.930 --> 00:15:48.752 and they could be employable. 00:15:48.752 --> 00:15:52.819 I went to people, they gave me beautiful a piece of land, 00:15:52.819 --> 00:15:55.717 by a lake, hills behind. 00:15:55.717 --> 00:16:01.121 And then as I was thinking of building this little technical college 00:16:01.121 --> 00:16:05.142 I got approached by Bradford University to become their chancellor. 00:16:05.142 --> 00:16:08.619 So I thought okay, if I can get Bradford University to come here, 00:16:08.619 --> 00:16:10.984 which was a technical based university, 00:16:10.984 --> 00:16:15.016 I could have a technical based university here, in Namal. 00:16:15.016 --> 00:16:20.142 Everyone told me that you can't build it in a rural area 00:16:20.142 --> 00:16:21.875 because you can't get faculty. 00:16:21.875 --> 00:16:27.709 It is now the first private sector university in the rural area and in a wild area. 00:16:27.709 --> 00:16:32.571 It's only about 40-50 miles as the crow flies from Waziristan. 00:16:32.571 --> 00:16:35.584 So imagine building a university 00:16:35.584 --> 00:16:39.852 with Bradford University degrees in that part of the world. 00:16:39.852 --> 00:16:43.213 And you won't believe it, not only has it taken off, 00:16:43.213 --> 00:16:44.891 the first batch comes out, 00:16:44.891 --> 00:16:47.523 but we've created another revolution -- 00:16:47.523 --> 00:16:51.840 in Mianwali, where there is no concept at all of coeducation, 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.618 we have, for the first time, girls from poor conservative families 00:16:55.618 --> 00:16:58.100 studying at the university with the boys. 00:16:58.100 --> 00:17:03.212 (Applause) 00:17:03.212 --> 00:17:07.615 Of course now the dream has been upscaled 00:17:07.615 --> 00:17:10.246 into making it into a knowledge city. 00:17:10.246 --> 00:17:15.226 The people have given me a thousand acres of land 00:17:15.226 --> 00:17:17.395 -- a thousand! All by the poor people around. 00:17:17.395 --> 00:17:19.323 So we've got a thousand acres of land 00:17:19.323 --> 00:17:23.126 now the ambition is to build a proper knowledge city there 00:17:23.126 --> 00:17:27.651 and have other institutions from other medical colleges, textile colleges, 00:17:27.651 --> 00:17:31.852 so that it's like Oxford University, and build on beautiful premises. 00:17:31.852 --> 00:17:36.496 And not only did we have faculty come from outside Pakistan, 00:17:36.496 --> 00:17:38.915 young Pakistani PhD's have come there 00:17:38.915 --> 00:17:41.309 but from LUMS, the PhDs who have qualified, 00:17:41.309 --> 00:17:43.438 they've come and started working there. 00:17:43.438 --> 00:17:46.645 (Applause) 00:17:46.645 --> 00:17:49.217 So in my opinion, if you create the conditions, 00:17:49.217 --> 00:17:53.531 if they are the right conditions, you can do anything. 00:17:53.531 --> 00:17:58.514 Now something which Raja Saab said and what he has done. 00:17:58.514 --> 00:18:04.083 In my opinion, in Pakistan all you need to do is to create the right conditions. 00:18:04.083 --> 00:18:07.334 You just need an enabling environment in Pakistan. 00:18:07.334 --> 00:18:10.098 You basically need good governance here. 00:18:10.098 --> 00:18:12.348 Just one thing, good governance. 00:18:12.348 --> 00:18:16.482 There's so much vibrancy in the society, that it will take off. 00:18:16.482 --> 00:18:19.192 I draw my experiences from two areas, 00:18:19.192 --> 00:18:21.100 one was cricket -- 00:18:21.100 --> 00:18:25.730 in Pakistan, we produced the world cup winning team 00:18:25.730 --> 00:18:29.499 despite having no system in the country, 00:18:29.499 --> 00:18:32.650 despite the system, not because of the system. 00:18:32.650 --> 00:18:35.352 There's no cricket system in Pakistan. 00:18:35.352 --> 00:18:41.650 And for all of you sitting here, if nothing else I am a triple PhD in cricket -- 00:18:41.650 --> 00:18:45.432 and I can tell you, never nowhere in the world 00:18:45.432 --> 00:18:48.152 have I seen such sporting talent as in this country. 00:18:48.152 --> 00:18:49.746 (Applause) 00:18:49.746 --> 00:18:55.350 And who else? I was just with Dave Richards in India during the world cup 00:18:55.350 --> 00:18:57.728 and Dave Richards on television said 00:18:57.728 --> 00:19:03.152 that the best talent anywhere in the world he had seen, was in Pakistan. 00:19:03.152 --> 00:19:05.069 So we have all this talent -- 00:19:05.069 --> 00:19:09.993 I have never seen a player of the ability 00:19:09.993 --> 00:19:14.111 of that boy Mohammad Amir who got disqualified. 00:19:14.111 --> 00:19:16.352 I've never seen a talent like that. 00:19:16.352 --> 00:19:19.408 I saw Wasim Acram, he [Mohammad] is even better than Wasim Acram, 00:19:19.408 --> 00:19:21.987 and Wasim was one of the best. 00:19:21.987 --> 00:19:25.320 So you have this talent: Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan 00:19:25.320 --> 00:19:29.076 Oxford University has more squash courts than the whole of Pakistan. 00:19:29.076 --> 00:19:32.661 Both world champions for 10 years. 00:19:32.661 --> 00:19:39.329 In my opinion, Pakistan is a country which is oozing with talent. 00:19:39.329 --> 00:19:41.990 It does not have a system, does not have institutions, 00:19:41.990 --> 00:19:44.327 does not have rule of law. 00:19:44.327 --> 00:19:46.433 Has criminals running the country. 00:19:46.433 --> 00:19:48.491 No country can prosper [like that] -- 00:19:48.491 --> 00:19:51.529 it's impossible, if you are in a factory and put criminals, 00:19:51.529 --> 00:19:52.962 the factory will collapse. 00:19:52.962 --> 00:19:54.672 How can a country go on? 00:19:54.672 --> 00:19:58.621 And the only problem in our way is apathy. 00:19:58.621 --> 00:20:03.172 The one thing, which in my opinion -- there is a verse in the Koran: 00:20:03.172 --> 00:20:06.814 "Those who have faith, Allah removes their fears." 00:20:06.814 --> 00:20:09.387 Fear is the biggest problem in this country. 00:20:09.387 --> 00:20:13.598 We are scared, people are so scared to take on these vested interests. 00:20:13.598 --> 00:20:16.756 We are sitting and watching this charade in front of us 00:20:16.756 --> 00:20:19.864 and people are reluctant to do anything. 00:20:19.864 --> 00:20:25.473 In Britain, 2 million people came out in the street against the war in Iraq. 00:20:25.473 --> 00:20:30.438 2 million people -- it wasn't even an injustice being done to the people of Britain, 00:20:30.438 --> 00:20:32.169 it was in Iraq, 00:20:32.169 --> 00:20:35.519 and 2 million people came out to protest. 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:41.986 To sum it all, Pakistan in my opinion -- 00:20:41.986 --> 00:20:44.570 this country has everything. 00:20:44.570 --> 00:20:47.436 We have two great institutions in this country 00:20:47.436 --> 00:20:48.936 which are vibrant and functioning: 00:20:48.936 --> 00:20:50.627 one is the supreme court, 00:20:50.627 --> 00:20:53.437 although there are all sorts of efforts to stop it functioning, 00:20:53.437 --> 00:20:56.632 and the other is a very vibrant media, 00:20:56.632 --> 00:21:01.701 despite -- I know Fasid said something, they do get carried away -- 00:21:01.701 --> 00:21:05.309 but, despite everything, the current affair programmes 00:21:05.309 --> 00:21:07.530 have created [an] awakening, 00:21:07.530 --> 00:21:10.550 a sort of awareness which didn't exist here before. 00:21:10.550 --> 00:21:13.300 All we need is an independent election commission 00:21:13.300 --> 00:21:16.474 and the next election you will see, inshallah, a revolution in this country. 00:21:16.474 --> 00:21:17.906 Thank you. 00:21:17.906 --> 00:21:21.116 (Applause)