It has taken Imran Khan over fifteen years to capture the imagination of the young, the alienated and the disgruntled people of Pakistan. This was demonstrated in the unprecedentedly mammoth public rally by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) at the Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore last Sunday. Considering that Imran's simplistic, even naïve, political prescriptions for Pakistan's myriad complex problems haven't realistically matured in all these years, it is worth inquiring into his sudden climb into the firmament of national politics, analyse his prospects for the future and comment on its implications for state and society.