ABC Telecast Exclusive Interview of Imran Khan
(Foreign Correspondent)

An intimate and revealing portrait of the man who's gone from pin up boy of the world cricket pitch to pious Pakistani politician on a mission. Reporter Peter Lloyd, obtained rare access to Imran Khan, spending a week with him on the campaign trail and at home, as he plays cricket with his two young sons to Jemima Goldsmith.
Speaking of the breakdown of his marriage, Khan tells Lloyd: " … I was torn, trying to make my marriage work and trying to give time to politics." He says his political profile suffered as a result of his relationship, and Pakistanis used his wife's Jewish background to attack him. "Jemima really suffered, they went for her because she was a soft target."
Lloyd accompanies Khan as he visits earthquake victims in the mountains of Kashmir. He's a hero there and throughout much of the country, because his charity organisation was one of the first to respond to the victims' cries for help, stepping in where Pakistan's all powerful army had failed. "It was total chaos, there was no direction, no central control," says Khan, who is the only elected member of his own political party, the Justice Movement. While his charity work and international profile have won him popularity with Pakistanis, that hasn't translated into meaningful political power.
For Khan, his first priority is to depose General Pervez Musharraf - even though he initially supported the General, who came to power in a military coup in 1999. "We all supported him," says Khan, "because he said he wanted to end sham democracy."
Like many of his compatriots, Khan is disillusioned by Musharraf's backtracking on democracy, and his alliance with the United States. The "war on terror", he says, is a war on Islam that's having a dangerous effect, radicalising the Muslim world.
He claims to have undergone a spiritual reawakening and his sympathies toward the Taliban movement in Afghanistan have made him a political target, but Khan denies that he's a fundamentalist.
"I believe in self respect and dignity. What has that got to do with fundamentalism? You in Australia have extremists," he tells Lloyd. "You have racists … it's like saying all Americans are like the KKK. That is exactly what is happening in the Muslim world - concentrate on the fanatics and brand the whole 1.3 billion people with the same brush."