Parenting & Family Quote by Imran Khan

The sentence tries to do two jobs at once: humanize a candidate and launder the costs of ambition into something nobler than simple sacrifice. Imran Khan frames the election as "tough" only in the most domestically legible way: absence from his young son and wife. It is a politician's safest vulnerability. He doesn’t mention money, factional pressure, dirty tactics, or fear - the hard parts voters might read as either incompetence or guilt. He mentions family, a universally sympathetic alibi that also signals seriousness: I’m working so hard I can’t even come home.

Then comes the revealing swerve: "but apart from that" is a verbal shrug that minimizes the disruption he just described. The pain is invoked, then quickly managed. The closing clause - "for her also it was an experience" - is even more loaded. It turns the wife's burden into a kind of character-building travelogue, softening the asymmetry of political life where one spouse campaigns and the other absorbs the fallout. "Experience" is a euphemism that avoids naming loneliness, stress, or resentment. It’s also a subtle request for indulgence: if she can treat it as an experience, so should the public.

Context matters: Khan’s political persona has long mixed moral reformer energy with celebrity charisma. This line leans into the latter, selling public service through private sentiment. The intent isn’t policy; it’s permission - to be absent, to be forgiven, to be seen as a devoted father even while he’s not there.