Strictly speaking not true
While I agree that Imran Khan’s political career has been a disappointment so far, taking on mega projects like Shaukat Khanum (when no one incl. many top doctors of Pakistan gave him any hope esp. as the costs involved were too high) and Namal College and turning them into reality does show organisational and leadership skills.
Imran is just not cut out to be a politician. For starters he is not a crook. I was also expecting great things from him in politics but among other factors - incl. his naivety, his alliance with JI, MMA etc., his over the top bashing of Musharraf, MQM & Zardari (granted that they are no saints) and confused stance on Taliban, Nawaz Sharif’s corruption etc. - Imran’s main problem is the two party system in Pakistan. The PPP and PML-N have a mafia-like grip on the psyche of the Pakistani masses, most of whom can’t see beyond their noses or think independently of their respective parties! Don’t forget it is the 80% illiterate masses not the educated people who effectively decide who is going to rule us after an election and that is not going to change in the foreseeable future.
In Britain for instance there is no way that the vast majority of people (however dissatisfied or disgruntled they might be with the present politicians) will ever vote for a third party or person (no matter how good, capable, sincere or honest he or she might be) It is always going to be either Labour or Conservative Party.
And it is the same in most other places. In the US it is Republicans v Democrats, in India Congress v BJP and so on. Seriously would Obama have won the US election if he had stood as an independent candidate or candidate of a party other than democrats or republicans. The answer is a big NO and here we are talking about the same individual with same skills!
Anyways Imran is never going to accept chairmanship of PCB. He has moved on from cricket, cricket is no longer his passion. Most likely he no longer follows or watches Pak games like he used to in the mid-late 90s (when he used to pen his views quite regularly in ‘The Daily Telegraph’) and not least because we suck in cricket right now. We need to move on too and look at other suitable candidates for this post