khan, has promised to tackle corruption and improve the state of the country's finances. he made the pledge in his first address to the nation. mr khan also said he would refuse to live in the prime minister's mansion and would avoid what he called the extravagent lifestyles associated with pakistan's previous ruling elites. translation: we have to stand on our own feet, we cannot carry on behaving the way we have. the more debt we're under, the more freedom we lose. we lose our respect. how bad would you feel? in fact, think about how bad i would feel, begging other countries for money. i would be ashamed. when a country begs for money from other countries, that country's entire respect goes. the world only respects a nation that respects itself. for more on imran khan's plans, i spoke to the bbc‘s south asia regional editor, anbarasan ethirajan. before the election he talked about a new pakistan, where his vision of how the country should be run, and more or less today's speech was reflecting his ideals about how to tackle corruption, which is plaguing the society, pa

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his pti party won the most seats injuly‘s elections and mr khan has become pm with the help of smaller parties. however, opposition leaders have claimed elements ofjuly‘s ballot were rigged. secunder kermani's report contains flashing images. speaks own language. pledging to serve pakistan, imran khan was formally appointed prime minister of the country. in the audience, alongside senior political and military figures, were members of the 1992 world cup winning pakistan cricket team that imran khan led to victory. after the swearing—in came a guard of honour. imran khan has promised to create a corruption free, more equal society. big promises that he now has to deliver. the biggest challenge is to fight corruption to fight poverty, to fight illiteracy, disease, and to fight terrorism. and he's determined. and the economic growth as well. economic growth is essential, we have to create ten million jobs in the next five years, this is our target and our promised this is our target and our promise to the people of pakistan. we have to build five million houses in pakistan million hou

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former international cricket star imran khan has been sworn in as the next prime minister of pakistan. after winning the general election injuly, mr khan's appointment was confirmed by a parliamentary vote yesterday. our news correspondent secunder kermani is in islamabad this morning. just tell us the process by which all of this was finally confirmed? this was the second of two formal steps that he had to go through to officially become prime minister. he was sworn into office just a short time ago in a ceremony the presidential house, alongside him, in the audience, with senior figures from his party and senior minute —— senior military figures and also members of the 1992 pakistani national cricket team which won the world cup. imran khan was captain of that team back then. this represents the culmination of his 22 years in politics. he had campaigned a strong anticorruption message, or missing to create a new pakistan. that was his slogan, one in which he said would be better healthcare, that education, morejobs. he inherits a country with a mounting financial crisis that cou

now to neighbouring pakistan, where one of imran khan's closest friends says mr khan is a man with a plan when it comes to sorting out the country's problems after he becomes prime minister this weekend. hamza ali abbasi is one of pakistan's leading actors, and was with the former cricketer on the night that he won the election. he spoke to the bbc‘s haroon rashid. it was a celebration, yes, but it wasn't dominated by celebration. it wasn't dominated by a sense of victory that "yes, we've won, its over now!" no. imran khan was very sober, he had that sense of the possibility —— imran khan was very sober, he had that sense of responsibility and right after he did the whole tv thing, he came out and talked to all of us and said, "the struggle is over, but the hard work isjust beginning." he prayed to allah and he prayed to god, he made us all pray, "please give us the strength and the expertise to get over successfully these mammoth challenges that are in front of pakistan right now." is he at all nervous? because what we've seen on tv is this very confident man who is very much

one of imran khan's closest friends says mr khan is a man with a plan when it comes to sorting out pakistan's problems after he becomes prime minister this weekend. hamza ali abbasi is one of pakistan's leading actors, and was with the former cricketer on the night he won the election. he spoke to the bbc‘s haroon rashid. it was a celebration, yes, but it wasn't dominated by celebration. it wasn't dominated by celebration. it wasn't dominated by a sense of victory that yes, we've won, its over now, no. imran khan was very sober, he had that sense of the possibility and right after he did the whole tv thing he came out and talked to all of us and said the struggle is over, but the hard work is just struggle is over, but the hard work isjust beginning. he prayed to allah and he prayed to god, he made us allah and he prayed to god, he made us all pray, please give us the strength and the expertise to get over successfully these mammoth challenges that are in front of pakistan right now. is india nervous visit what we've seen on tv is this very confident man who is very much in control of what

imran khan, because he's not the straightest shooting arrow, he's a little bit of a political ied, the army will have problems corralling him but he will find very quickly that he can be equally subjected to this arbitrary definition of not being the other. we've all seen the rumors floating around about the finances. >> it's a charity that imran khan became famous for that established the name of his mother after the 1992 world cup. it is a cancer hospital. there are issues about its finances not being completely transparent. >> this is indifferent to a number of peccadilloes. >> let's not get into that. >> i'm not going to detail the peccadilloestic but what else is now we have the , president of the supreme court saying that a prime minister is not -- terms of not used in the constitution. islamic history, those prophet muhammed and islamic history so the honest and trustworthy, and it was put in by the general where he admitted the constitution arbitrarily before restoring some semblance of elected segment of government in 1985, and then when the constitution was being readmitted t

imran khan, because he's not the straightest shooting arrow, he's a little bit of a political ied, the army will have problems corralling him but he will find very quickly that he can be equally subjected to this arbitrary definition of not being -- we've all seen the rumors floating around about the finances. >> it's a charity that imran khan became famous for that established the name of his mother after the 1992 world cup. the cancer center of their issues about its finances not being completely transparent. >> this is indifferent to a number of speedy let's not get into that. >> i'm not going to detail the exotics but what else is now we have the president of the supreme court saying that a prime minister is not -- terms of not used in the constitution speedy it is essentially become some islamic history, those prophet muhammed and islamic history so the honest and trustworthy, and it was put in by the general where he admitted the constitution arbitrarily before restoring some semblance of elected segment of government in 1985, and then when the constitution was being readmitted t