A decade ago, the man almost certain to become Pakistan’s next prime minister told me something I have never forgotten. Imran Khan was a political footnote then – the celebrity cricketer whose political party had sputtered to no great success. Yet his passion was undimmed. Justice, he told me in an interview, was essential to Islam.  

It is why he founded Pakistan’s leading cancer hospital, which offers free treatment to 75 percent of its patients, before he became a politician. It is why he named his party the Movement for Justice. It is why his core political promise is the rooting out of corruption.

His rise to power, culminating in an election beset by violence Wednesday, has brought many compromises. Some see worrying moves toward populism, as well as attempts to placate the all-powerful Army, the ruling class, and religious bigotry. Yet in explaining his religious journey, Mr. Khan once wrote that “one of the problems facing Pakistan is the polarization of two reactionary groups” – the Western elite and religious hard-line conservatives whose “attitudes … are repugnant to the spirit of Islam.”

The path to justice, he wrote, was in building a shared sense of understanding. Now, Khan has his chance, and as his first wife tweeted, “The challenge now is to remember why he entered politics in the 1st place.”

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