The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, aspires to join the esteemed list of chancellors at Oxford University, where the legacy of luminaries like Turing and Newton still reverberates.
It’s difficult to deny the fact that this project clearly has the characteristics of well-planned showmanship and a skillfully crafted advertising ploy, despite its ostensibly sincere aspect. After all, Khan is currently more acquainted with a jail cell’s boundaries than prestigious academic precincts. This candidacy is more likely an attempt to take use of Oxford’s prominence in order to maintain attention and gain validation than it is an attempt to add to the university’s legacy.
Let’s prepare the scene. Oxford is home to a university that predates most nations.
