Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} by Ivo Tennant Imran Khan by Ivo Tennant. Their contrasting background, age and upbringing meant that it would always be under pressure. At the time of her engagement in 1995, was a 21 year old socialite, more than two decades younger than Imran Khan. She was the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, Sir James Goldsmith, and from a Jewish background. 'Playboy image' He had just retired from international cricket, earning legendary status in for his role in winning the 1992 cricket world cup. Their different lives prior to marriage meant that both had to make radical changes after their wedding. He would have to abandon the itinerant playboy image acquired during his bachelor years, and she would have to adjust to living in Pakistan and adopting the Muslim faith. Jemima may have come from a wealthy background, but her new husband - a proud man - was not interested in taking any of his father-in-law's money. She would have to get used to living with an extended South Asian family in a middle class Pakistani household in , with uncertain water and electricity supplies. The tabloid press in Britain reported that she did not even have a washing machine and slept in the same bed as her two sons. Imran Khan may be a cricketing aristocrat who dated some well known British heiresses, but he has never lived a life of grandeur. His father was an engineer who taught him always to watch the financial outgoings. Initially it seemed that she was adjusting to her new lifestyle despite the difficulties, playing a prominent role in her husband's cancer hospital. She also became an ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund in 1991. But it was not too long before the difficulties emerged. Imran may have abandoned his nomadic cricketing existence, but his time on the road had not come to an end. He was constantly travelling in the early years of their marriage to promote his political career and the Tehreek-e-Insaf party which he founded in 1996. There were reports that Jemima was becoming increasing frustrated over Imran's fledgling political career, and wanted him to spend more time at home. 'Highly upset' On top of that, she always seemed to miss Britain - where she had started a designer clothes company - and was reportedly keen for her children to be educated in her homeland. Like her friend Diana Princess of Wales, past girlfriends of her husband always seemed to hover over the marriage. In May 2004, one of those old girlfriends, the millionairess Sita White, died suddenly of a heart attack. Her daughter Tyrian was proven to be Imran Khan's child in 1997. Imran denied he had fathered the little girl until a legal suit proved otherwise. He did not meet Tyrian until she was six years old. Jemima was reported to be "highly upset" about the court case, even though she and Imran are now reported to have developed a close relationship with Tyrian. In the later years of her marriage Jemima spent more and more time in Britain, ostensibly to study but also mixing with celebrity friends including the actor Hugh Grant, Princess Rosario of Bulgaria and supermodels Elle Macpherson and Laura Baily. She celebrated her 30th birthday in February surrounded by supermodels, superstars and society figures, but her husband remained 4,000 miles away in Pakistan. The pressures on her life seemed to mount up in recent years. In January 2001 a mentally ill passenger attempted to seize control of a plane in which she was travelling with her family in Africa. It plunged nearly 10,000 feet before air staff reclaimed control of the plane. The Goldsmith family were all convinced that they were about to die. Just over a year later, a knife wielding burglar broke into her London house - despite multi-million dollar security measures. While all these factors undoubtedly would have placed a strain on the marriage, ultimately the break-up appears due to the differences of east and west. Culturally, socially and financially Imran and Jemima were always worlds apart. Imran Khan by Ivo Tennant. As anyone will tell you, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world. A few months ago, if you had walked into a bank wearing a face mask, the security guard would have constantly stared at you, making you feel like you were there not to cash a cheque, but to rob the bank. Today, he is wearing a mask too. The obsessive compulsive disorder of the past — vigorously washing hands, cleaning doorknobs, shoes, clothes, etc — is the new norm. Disinfect to your heart’s content, and no one will judge you. Similarly, in cricket, there is actually a debate going on now about what kind of artificial substances might legally be allowed to be used to shine a cricket ball, all because the current practice of putting saliva and perspiration on the ball could be a big health hazard for the players. Former Aussie captain, Ian Chappell, a man who probably knows a bit more cricket than you and I, reckons that some form of ball-tampering could be allowed in cricket. Already, Kookaburra — the world-renowned ball manufacturing company which keeps up with the times, is developing a wax applicator to shine the ball. In other words, ‘ball-tampering’, once deemed taboo will be the ‘new norm’ in cricket. There is no cricket nation other than Pakistan which can discern the phenomenon of ball-tampering better. In the 1990s, the phrase ‘ball- tampering’ almost became synonymous with Pakistan cricket. It was the end of Pakistan’s 1992 tour to England which opened a Pandora’s Box, when the South Africa-born English cricketer Allan Lamb accused Pakistan’s cricketers of ball-tampering. However, it was the staunch Yorkshire man Geoffrey Boycott, who came to their defence, saying: “On present form, Waqar and Wasim could bowl out the England team with an orange.” Legend has it that it was Sarfraz Nawaz who introduced this ‘art’ into the Pakistan team. While practising at the Lahore Gymkhana nets in the 1960s, a first-class bowler taught a 17-year-old Sarfraz a few tricks, which he subsequently applied in the match and got the prodigious unconventional swing, which later became known as ‘reverse swing’. There’s a debate going on in the cricketing world about perhaps allowing the use of artificial substances to shine a cricket ball in the post- coronavirus world. Sarfraz didn’t mind the reputation of being a scoundrel, though he has always maintained that he achieved reverse swing without using unfair means. He proudly claims that he taught this art to Imran Khan who later transferred it to Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, reminiscent of Indian classical music ‘gharana’ (family) in which the style of rendition is passed on from generation to generation. In 1990, when Waqar and Wasim were hunting down the visiting Kiwis one by one with their colossal reverse swing bowling, one of the Kiwis, the fast bowler Chris Pringle, said “enough is enough” and decided to give the opposition a taste of their own medicine. He used the good old bottle top to make the ball swing. And boy did the ball talk! On a lifeless Faisalabad pitch, described once by Dennis Lillee as a “bowlers’ graveyard”, Pringle took 11 wickets and almost won the game for his team. In the past, renowned Pakistani bowlers Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar have been called out for displaying the ‘art’ in public. In his autobiography Controversially Yours, Shoaib Akhtar wrote: “Almost all Pakistani fast bowlers have tampered with the ball. I may be the first to openly admit to it but everybody is doing it.” Even our ‘Lala’, the leg spinner Shahid Afridi tried to ‘make’ the ball by biting it for his teammate Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan in Australia in 2010. At the time, Rana’s smirk and his avoidance of eye contact with his captain, Afridi, made us believe that he wasn’t quite impressed by this action. And he wasn’t alone. Biting a cricket ball wasn’t classy; it looked a bit childish. This incident was rather a disgrace for the cricketing nation, which did not consider ball-tampering as cheating but a form of art, a cricketing skill to be precise. In our domestic matches, umpires keep a watchful eye on anyone who brings this wonderful art into disrepute. A first-class cricketer who played a solitary One Day International for Pakistan and has 8,168 first-class runs to his name, once said in a TV discussion: “Ball-tampering has been rampant in our first-class matches and umpires are quite lenient about it. Ironically, I was once fined for arguing with the umpires because I tried to bring it to their notice.” No wonder then that when three Aussies — Cameron Bancroft, Steve Smith and David Warner — were temporarily banned from playing international cricket for tampering with the ball, Pakistanis were exultantly sharing memes on social media. Deep down, most of the Pakistanis had a soft corner for them. So, at the time, if these lads had no place to hide, they could’ve easily visited Pakistan and found out how much we love them. Well, we may have pioneered and mastered this art, but we’re not the only ones who practice it. The English players also have a fair share of ball- tampering history but, in the years gone by, they may have focused more on the shine than scuffing up the ball. Perhaps they fancied Vaseline more than a bottle top, except for the ‘innocuous’ rub of dirt on the ball episode by Michael Atherton and the ‘ruthless’ use of bowling spikes by Stuart Broad in recent times. Many people in Pakistan believe that the wily little Pakistani character who bowled leg spins, Mushtaq Ahmed, taught the English team the finer points of this art. Of course, the English players were quite aware of it while playing county cricket, but doing it successfully at the international stage is a different ball game altogether. Our eastern neighbour India doesn’t have many ball-tampering culprits. Perhaps, Kapil Dev wasn’t that open to new ideas as was his favorite counterpart Imran. That said, two of India’s nicest cricketers (on and off the field) — Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid — were accused of jumping on the ball-tampering bandwagon. To be honest, compared to other brazen ball-tampering incidents, they looked as innocent as lambs. Some people may hate Imran Khan, especially now that he is an established politician, but not many people would doubt his cricketing knowledge. The man told us in the 1980s and 1990s that ball-tampering is a skill and everyone does it. In Ivo Tennant’s biography on Imran Khan, the iconic cricketer confessed that, during a county match between Sussex and Hampshire, he used a bottle top to alter the condition of the ball. Do we need to remind ourselves that Imran was the one who initiated the concept of neutral umpires? So, when he talks cricket (not politics) we listen. So folks, get ready, the day is not far when the MCC World Cricket committee will sit in one of the momentous Lord’s rooms and enjoy cucumber sandwiches with tea. And, of course, change the rules and make cricket more ‘Corona safe’ (read: bowler friendly). If that happens, don’t forget that it was Khan who told us first about it — not Ian Chappell. Did Imran Khan deny cancer treatment to his mother due to poverty? Shocking rumor spreads on social media. This apparent failure of Khan had the political battle go beyond the arenas of courts and politics and led to speculations over his mother's death and its connection with Khan's wealth, an insinuation that was left open for the merciless and intemperate social media. — ﯾہ ﮨﻮﺗﯽ ﮨﮯ ﮨﻮﻧﮩﺎر اوﻻد۔ 1984 ﻣﯿﮟ 61 ﮨﺰار ﭘﺎوﻧﮉ ﻟﻨﺪن ﻓﻠﯿﭧ ﮐﺎ ﺑﯿﻌﺎﻧہ اور 1985 ﻣﯿﮟ ﭘﯿﺴﮯ ﻧہ ﮨﻮﻧﮯ ﮐﯽ وﺟہ ﺳﮯ واﻟﺪه ﮐﺎ ﻋﻼج ﻧہ ﮨﻮ ﺳﮑﺎ"ﺳﺠﺎد ﻣﻨﺼﻮری" AWGoraya #ArrestGeneralBajwa #ArrestGeneralFaiz (@AWGoraya) July 22, 2017. It's unfortunate that the attack, though apparently a political commentary, held connotations beyond the ethics of politics and journalism and were retweeted with distasteful personal attacks on Khan with his dead mother being central to their slurs and propaganda. Although the allegations - originally generated by PML-N social media pages - have not yet been put forth in any of legal proceedings or any other formal level, it has already become a de facto defence of PML-N social media activists and pages. Contrary to these misconceptions and propagandist rants, Imran Khan did take his mother to the UK for treatment. Witnessing his mother's pain and misery, Khan used the best that his fame, money and influence could provide for her. It was at a very late stage that the family had come to know about his mother's fatal disease. The feelings of helplessness, as he has described in his book, generated the idea of making a hospital. If this could happen to a mother of a person like Khan, he wondered, what would happen to the people who cannot even afford treatment at home, let alone in the UK. He made a hospital in his mother's memory even though he could afford treatment, realising what the poor people go through. A tribute, as he thinks, similar or perhaps magnanimous than any other monument for the deceased beloved. After retiring from cricket in 1992, Khan had decided to put all his efforts in completing a cancer hospital in Lahore for which he had been gathering funds and patronage from the late 1980s. Though Khan had already decided to retire in 1987, he kept playing and eventually lead the team to win the 1992 World Cup. This was done solely on the hope that he could attract a continuous flow of funds for his cancer hospital project, and it was only possible as long as he remained a popular cricketer and a successful captain in a country where everyone is obsessed with cricket. According to British author, Ivo Tennant, Khan feared that the money for the hospital would stop or disappear once the euphoria of the World Cup victory fades away. Madam Noor Jehan on Imran Khan and Shaukat Khanum. She not only donated 2 it but also sang for free to raise money for it. Such a great lady pic.twitter.com/dpdwFfEhu0 — Hamza Rao ☭ ​ (@HamsterRao) July 18, 2017. At the time of Khan's retirement, the hospital building had already begun to take shape, but that wasn't enough. He worried that he would not be in the limelight anymore and maintaining the interest of possible donors would be too difficult. This is when he entered the politics. Since opening, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust have both accumulated local and international recognition. In 1992, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan came together for the Shaukat Khanum Appeal Concert. Imran Khan by Ivo Tennant. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman ─ now the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan ─ Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was born on Oct 5, 1952 to a well-off Pashtun family in Mianwali, Punjab. His family later settled in Lahore, which is where he spent most of his youth. Being the only son of his parents ─ and a brother to four sisters ─ he was often called arrogant ─ an accusation Khan has always denied. In his early teens, he was considered a quiet and shy boy who often kept to himself. Even in school, he had a passion for cricket. He hailed from a great cricketing family ─ his maternal cousins; Javed Burki and both preceded him in going to Oxford and captaining Pakistan. Khan attended and the Cathedral School in Lahore. He then obtained admission at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, before completing his education with an undergraduate degree in Economics from Keble College, Oxford University. While there, he was also the captain of the Oxford University cricket team in 1974. Following in the footsteps of his cousins, Khan started playing cricket at the age of 13. Initially playing for his college and later representing English county Worcester, he made his debut for Pakistan at the age of 18 during the 1971 English series at Birmingham. Soon, he had acquired a permanent place in the team for himself. As a genuine all-rounder, Khan consistently made useful contributions in all forms of cricket with tremendous hard-hitting and swing abilities. Khan achieved the all-rounder’s triple in 75 Tests and was known to make the second-fastest record after Ian Botham of the England cricket team. He left cricket at the pinnacle of his sports career ─ after he captained the Pakistani team to its first and only ODI World Cup victory in 1992, with a record of 3,807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket. Aside from his cricketing ability, Khan was also known for his popularity among women and his frequenting of night clubs. Christopher Sandford in his book, Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician , wrote that Khan knew of and visited all the famous nightclubs in the United Kingdom and Australia, and would love to meet and court women. He would not drink alcohol, but wouldn't have a problem with his teammates going out and enjoying themselves. British author Ivo Tennant in his book quotes artist Emma Sergeant — daughter of millionaire finance journalist Patrick Sergeant who alleged she had a four-year relationship with Khan from 1982-1986 — describing the cricketer as a 'perfect fusion of east and west'. In 1987, after he had led Pakistan to its first ever Test series win in India, Khan was offered a position in the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) formed by then military dictator, General Ziaul Haq. He had politely declined the offer. Although Khan had announced his retirement during the 1987 World Cup, he returned to cricket despite Zia's requests to the contrary. Following his actual retirement from cricket after the '92 World Cup, Khan became an active philanthropist. He campaigned to build the first of its kind cancer hospital in Pakistan that offers free treatment to needy patients. It was named Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre after his mother who had died of cancer. It was around this time that Nawaz Sharif's first government sent out feelers that it was interested in bagging him as a member of the ruling party (PML). A 1992 60 Minutes segment shows [play video at 9:20] Nawaz saying he had made an offer to Khan to join politics many years ago "but he declined. I don't know why. The offer is still valid," he had said. Khan, who was now 41, had begun to tone down his 'playboy' image. He had found a spiritual mentor in Mian Bashir, who by his own account — Pakistan: A Personal History — helped disarm a sceptical Jemima Goldsmith by accurately guessing her three secret wishes. Jemima, the daughter of tycoon James Goldsmith, married Khan in Paris in 1995, at the age of 21. The couple had two children, Sulaiman and Qasim, and divorced nine years later. "The six months leading up to our divorce and the six months after, made up the hardest year of my life," Khan had said in his book. In a statement at the time of their divorce, he had said: "Whilst Jemima tried her best to settle here, my political life made it difficult for her to adapt to life in Pakistan." In 1993, under the caretaker government of Moeen Qureshi, Khan was appointed ambassador of tourism ─ a post carrying the same weight as minister. He quit the post after the Qureshi government was dissolved after three months and new elections were held. In late 1994, he joined hands with former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul and Muhammad Ali Durrani — the latter, at the time, was heading Pasban, a breakaway youth wing of JI. They planned to launch what they called a ‘pressure group’. Short of being a political party, it was meant to work as a civil society watchdog for the government of the day. In the February 1995 edition of Herald , the three spoke about how the group was to be a social movement rather than a political entity. They also saw it becoming a "third force" and "the first middle-class movement in the land". The pressure group never materialised. Imran Khan quickly became uncomfortable with the idea of being seen as a puppet in the hands of Gul, according to Zaigham Khan, the Herald staffer who reported on the trio’s plans. Later the same year (1994), his friends, including a retired Lt. Gen, managed to persuade him to pursue a political career. On April 25, 1996, Khan formed his own political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf. It did not win a single seat in the 1997 elections, which were the PTI's first. A few years later, the retired army man left the party, saying that Imran listens to none. Another few years passed and another seasoned politician left the party, sharing the same sentiments. In 1999, Khan came out in support of Gen Pervez Musharraf, and in the 2002 polls under the former military dictator, the party won one seat ─ Khan's own. However, Khan's party urged him to resign from his National Assembly seat in 2007 after the Karachi carnage, and subsequently boycotted the 2008 polls, holding the position that an elected parliament had little to no meaning under a president in military uniform. Khan himself had briefly been detained under the lawyers' movement crackdown against critics of Musharraf in 2007 after trying to lead a protest at Punjab University. He also joined a host of voices demanding a probe into the murder of in 2008. It was 2011 when people once again saw Imran Khan active in politics. His jalsas in Karachi and Lahore drew massive crowds ─ comparable perhaps only to those witnessed last in the '80s at Benazir's homecoming rally. Despite a strong campaign in the lead-up to the 2013 polls, the party failed to win a majority at the centre and sat on the opposition benches with 32 seats. It did, however, form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after an alliance with the Jamaat-i-Islami. Khan and the PTI spent the next four years protesting against rigging and corruption in the government, calling for accountability of politicians. In 2014, Khan took out a long march to the capital and held the longest ever sit-in against alleged rigging in the 2013 polls, which he held the Nawaz Sharif-led PML-N responsible for. He joined hands with Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader Tahirul Qadri for the dharna, who was agitating for justice for victims of the Model Town tragedy. The sit-in against continued for 126 days, but was called off after a Taliban attack on Peshawar's Army Public School in December 2014. Veteran politician Javed Hashmi, who held a position as PTI president before resigning from the party, accused Khan of working with "non- political forces" and "script-writers" who, he claimed, were conspiring against the government. The former PTI leader even alleged that senior party members had not been convinced that there had been rigging on a large scale in Punjab during the 2014 election, despite the PTI's public stance during their historic sit-in the same year that large-scale election rigging had resulted in the party's loss. The allegations have never been substantiated with evidence. Days after the sit-in, Khan married journalist at his Banigala residence on January 8, 2015, in a simple ceremony. Although the wedding received a great deal of public attention, it was also criticised for its proximity to the Army Public School terrorist attack in which more than 140 people — majority of them students — were killed. The relationship lasted just nine months, and Khan later called it one of the "biggest mistakes" of his life. Reham wrote a risque 'tell-all' which included details about her time married to Khan, which she released in the days leading up to the 2018 polls. However, just as it seemed the PTI was running out of steam, the Panama Papers were released in April 2016. Khan, who described the leaks as 'God sent' began pressing the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif to come clean about his wealth. In the months following the leaks, the government and opposition tussled over the Terms of Reference (ToRs) for the commission that was to investigate the allegations against the Sharif family. The PTI in June 2016 filed a petition with the Election Commission of Pakistan seeking disqualification of Sharif for allegedly concealing his assets. This was to be the beginning of the end for Sharif. Subsequently, a number of petitions were filed against the Sharif family in the Supreme Court ─ most notably by the PTI, JI, PAT and Awami Muslim League. Khan encouraged his followers to continue protesting against corruption and then conceived the idea of a second long sit-in against corruption dubbed the 'Islamabad lockdown'. The protest, however, never came to fruition as the SC ─ a day before the Nov 2 protest ─ held a hearing of the Panamagate petitions and asked for ToRs to probe the allegations. The Panama saga finally concluded on July 6, 2018, when the Supreme Court sentenced Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in- law Captain Safdar to jail for corruption. But the two years in between the leaks and the final judgement were beset by divisive politics and court cases upon court cases filed against various political leaders for various reasons. During that time, on a petition moved by PML-N's Hanif Abbasi, the PTI chief faced a disqualification case in the Supreme Court. The court, however, dismissed the case against Khan in December 2017 after lengthy hearings; his close aide, Jahangir Tareen was disqualified. Khan himself, to date, is facing a number of cases himself. Among them are two cases ─ before the Islamabad and Peshawar High Courts ─ seeking his disqualification from public office on multiple grounds, including his failure to mention his alleged daughter, Tyrian White, in the nomination papers filed for the 2018 General Elections; a case before the KP National Accountability Bureau for alleged misuse of the provincial government's helicopter during his party's 2013-2018 rule in the province; and a 2014 case before an Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad for an attack on the PTV headquarters in the capital during the Islamabad dharna. Khan married a third time in 2018 ─ to Bushra Bibi, his spiritual leader from who he had frequented for about two years ─ in a simple ceremony in Lahore. The mystique and rumours around his third wife ─ who observes a full veil ─ suggest that she is the one responsible for his turn towards spirituality and his ascent to prime ministership. But all this is just speculation. A month before the July 25 polls, Khan and Bushra were filmed offering prayers at the shrine of Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar in Pakpattan. In the July 25 general elections, the PTI bagged an unprecedented 116 National Assembly seats in the election amid other political parties crying foul. Imran Khan won all five seats that he contested on. The PTI's complete tally in the NA, after recruiting independents and appointing candidates to its reserved seats ─ and subtracting the multiple seats won by Khan and two other MNAs, went up to 152. But the party's spokesperson claimed that the party, with the help of its allies, has garnered the support of 180+ MNAs. Soon after results started trickling in and PTI emerged in the lead, Imran Khan was referred to as the 'PM-in-waiting', with the party head also delivering a victory speech the day after the elections. "I want to clarify why I entered politics," said Khan in his speech. "Politics could not have given me anything. I wanted Pakistan to become the country that my leader Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had dreamed of." London Bridge attacker identified as Usman Khan. Metropolitan Police on Saturday identified the London Bridge attacker as British national Usman Khan, a 28-year-old male from Staffordshire. "We are now in a position to confirm the identity of the suspect as 28-year-old Usman Khan, who had been residing in the Staffordshire area. As a result, officers are, tonight, carrying out searches at an address in Staffordshire,” Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said in a statement issued past midnight. Khan stabbed two people to death and left three injured a day earlier in an attack that caused fear and panic across the city as residents revisited the spectre of terror returning to London. "This individual was known to authorities, having been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offences,” Basu said. “He was released from prison in December 2018 on licence and clearly, a key line of enquiry now is to establish how he came to carry out this attack. He added that Khan was shot by specialist armed forces and died at the scene. "The circumstances, as we currently understand them, are that the attacker attended an event earlier on Friday afternoon at Fishmonger’s Hall called ‘Learning Together’. He added that police believe the attack began inside before Khan left the building and proceeded onto London Bridge, where he was detained and subsequently confronted and shot by armed officers. Who is Usman Khan? In January 2012, Usman Khan — a British citizen born in the UK — pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism contrary to section 5(1) of the UK’s Terrorism Act 2006. Khan was among nine men charged with conspiracy to bomb high- profile London targets in the run-up to Christmas in 2010. At the time, the men were described as an al Qaeda-inspired group that wanted to send mail bombs to various targets and launch a "Mumbai-style" atrocity. At the time of his arrest, Khan lived in Stoke-on-Trent, a city in central England. At the time, a hand-written target list found at one of the defendant's homes listed the names and addresses of United Kingodom Prime Minister Boris Johnson — who was at the time the mayor of London — two rabbis, the American Embassy and the Stock Exchange. The British police counter-terror operation which led to their arrests was the biggest of 2010. Khan was sentenced to detention for public protection with a minimum custodial term of 8 years — a sentenced designed by UK authorities to protect the public from serious offenders whose crimes did not merit a life sentence. Offenders sentenced to an IPP are set a minimum term which they must spend in prison. After they have completed their tariff they can apply to a parole board for release. The Parole Board releases an offender only if it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public for the convict to be confined. If offenders are given parole they will be on supervised licence for at least 10 years. If offenders are refused parole they can only apply again after one year. 2010 bomb plot The judge who had examined the sentencing appeals of Khan and the other convicts in 2013 had said: “At some time, the accused each became a committed Islamic fundamentalist, believing in jihad, that is to say, they wished to support and commit acts of terrorism in furtherance of their religious beliefs. They came to the attention of the security services who monitored them using covert surveillance techniques and devices and were able to effect their arrest prior to advanced steps having been taken to implement their plans.” He also noted that although they were from different parts of the country (Stoke, Cardiff and London), the groups managed to meet together. The judge had also said that the Stoke defendants, which included Khan, were recorded discussing terror attacks overseas. On December 15, 2010, Khan had been monitored by UK authorities in conversation about how to construct a pipe bomb from a recipe referred to in an Al Qaeda publication.