First Lady Bushra Imran, in her first interview to a media channel, has said that Pakistanis are fortunate to have a leader like Imran Khan.
The first lady made the remark in a wide-ranging interview conducted by HumTV’s Nadeem Malik for his programme Nadeem Malik Live.
“When God wants to change the fate of a nation, He gives them a leader instead of a politician,” First Lady Bushra said, adding that the prime minister had the country’s best interests at heart.
When asked about how she felt about her transition from spiritual guide (pir) to first lady, Bushra Bibi quipped that: “In my past life, people used to come to me to get close to God and his messenger; now they come to me to get close to Khan sahab.”
“It is important to worship and pray, but it is more important to serve humankind,” the first lady said. “This is something I’ve learned from Khan sahab.”
She also credited the prime minister for helping her gain a greater appreciation for life. “People say that I have changed him, when the truth is that we have changed each other,” she said.
“I taught him that worship brings you closer to God, and he taught me that loving His creation brings us closer to Him.”
Speaking of her husband’s simple lifestyle, the first lady said that he is not particular about clothes or food.
“He does not get any clothes stitched for himself. When I first married him, I asked one of the housekeepers to take out his summer clothes and was told that he does not have any,” she said, narrating an incident from the early days of her marriage.
“The housekeeper told me that he only wears clothes if someone gives them to him. He never gets them stitched,” she recalled.
She recalled that, “someone came and gifted him a few stitched sets of shalwar kamiz, which he wore throughout the season.”
“I have never seen a simpler person. He is free of any wants or desires,” she said.
She also termed her husband a “leader” and “not a politician.”
“Quaid-i-Azam was a leader. Khan sahab is a leader, and [in the current era] only [Recep Teyyip] Erdogan is a leader. The rest of these people are just politicians,” she said.-Agencies
