After the May 2013 decisions, Mohammed Hanif composing for The Gatekeeper named Khan's help as engaging "to the informed working classes however Pakistan's primary issue is that there aren't an adequate number of taught metropolitan working class residents in the country".[376] Pankaj Mishra composing for The New York Times in 2012, charactised Khan as a "fitting picture out of his — and Pakistan's — conflicting personalities" adding that "his relationship with the enduring masses and his assaults on his princely, English-talking peers have for quite some time been derided in the front rooms of Lahore and Karachi as the deceptive ravings of "Im the Faint" and "Taliban Khan" — the two leaned toward monikers for him." Mishra closed with "like all libertarian legislators, Khan seems to offer something to everybody. However the extraordinary contrasts between his electorates — socially liberal, upper-working class Pakistanis and the profoundly safe inhabitants of Pakistan's ancestral regions — appear irreconcilable."[377]


Khan tending to an Interfaith Christmas Supper in 2014


On 18 Walk 2012, Salman Rushdie condemned Khan for declining to go to the India Today Meeting in view of Rushdie's participation. Khan refered to the "immense hurt" that Rushdie's compositions have caused Muslims all over the planet. Rushdie, thusly, recommended that Khan was a "tyrant in waiting."[378] In 2011, While composing for The Washington Post, Richard Leiby named Khan as a longshot adding that he "frequently seems like a favorable to a majority rule government liberal yet is notable for his comfort with moderate Islamist parties."[379] Ayesha Siddiqa, in September 2014, composing for The Express Tribune, guaranteed that "while we can all feel for Khan's all in all correct to change the political tone, it would be beneficial for him to imagine how he would, assuming he turned into the state leader of this nation, set the genie back into the bottle."[380] H. M. Naqvi named Khan as a "kind of a Ron Paul figure", adding that "there is no impurity of debasement and there is his defiant message."[379]

During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s Khan was a famous sex symbol.[381][382] He became known as a socialite in English high society,[383] and brandished a playboy picture among the English press and paparazzi because of his "relentless celebrating" at London clubs like Annabel's and Drifter, however he professes to have detested English bars and never drank alcohol.[9][35][70][384] English beneficiary Sita White, little girl of Gordon White, Nobleman White of Frame, became the mother of his claimed lovechild girl, Tyrian Jade White. An appointed authority in the US managed him to be the dad of Tyrian because of his inability to show up in court,[385] yet Khan has denied paternity and requested the case to be open in Pakistani courts.[386][387] Later in 2007, Political race Commission of Pakistan decided for Khan and excused the ex parte judgment of the US court, on grounds that it was neither permissible in proof under the watchful eye of any court or council in Pakistan nor executable against him.[388] About his way of life as a lone ranger, he has frequently said that, "I never case to have driven an other-worldly life."[35]

Declan Walsh in The Watchman paper in Britain in 2005 depicted Khan as a "hopeless government official," seeing that, "Khan's thoughts and affiliations since entering legislative issues in 1996 have turned and slipped like a cart in a rainshower... He teaches a majority rule government one day however gives a vote to traditionalist mullahs the next."[389] Khan has likewise been blamed by certain rivals and pundits for false reverence and advantage, including what has been referred to his life's as' "playboy to puritan U-turn."[61] Political reporter Najam Sethi, expressed that, "A ton of the Imran Khan story is tied in with backtracking on a ton of things he said before, which is the reason this doesn't rouse people."[61] Creator Fatima Bhutto has condemned Khan for "extraordinary comfort not with the military but rather with fascism" as well as a portion of his political decisions.[390] By the by, Khan's endorsement rating since he became State leader remained nearly powerful for an officeholder in Pakistani governmental issues with a greater part supporting (51%), contrasted with 46% objection and 3% undecided.[391] Different surveys proposed his endorsement was pretty much as high as 57%.[392]