Shahid Khan is 62 years old Pakistani billionaire, who is the owner of American NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars and British Football club Fulham. He had successfully lay down his steps strongly winning interest of the Football team due to his friendly and likable personality and has plans to make this team international. He enjoys a recognized popular status within the society and has earned a strong approval percent of 78% which any politician would desire. His mustache has also become very popular among the followers of the Jaguars and is the advertising spokesman of his team. He had also been the victim of criticisms and has been labeled as a terrorist from Pakistan but he was not moved by such racist comments considering it to be their problem not his.
He enjoyed the days of his childhood in Lahore and has a younger brother. His mother Zakia is a retired math professor from whom he got the motivation for education and his late father Rafiq used to sell serving equipment teaching him hard work and self sufficiency. He used to make and sell radios and made his friends pay for borrowing his comic books as a boy and unlike any other Pakistani he also had a flair for the cricket and the National team. In 1967 he had moved to America where his application had been accepted by the University of Illinois at the age of 16 to study Mechanical Engineering. He had stepped out with just $500 in hand and so being responsible got a job which offered only $20 per hour, at which he decided that his destiny was in his hands and he was ready to take the major decisions of his life like he became part of a fraternity group of all-white. He then met and later married Ann Carlson and now is the father of two children.
He successfully built his own company for 800 thousand dollars whose expertise are bumpers which has rare qualities like rust proof, single handed and light weight ensuring sales of 3.5 billion dollars per annum. He is one of the renowned richest people in America out of the 400. He got his American nationality in 1991 and has been living a successful life in America for over 45 years. During the period of 9/11 he was one of the Pakistanis who faced strict attitude from the American people and the authorities in charge. He was also once detained for 5 to 6 hours on the bridge crossing between America and Canada. Still his generous and mild personality was not inflicted enormously but was insignificantly disturbed by this behavior. He agrees with the American mindset that the one thing needed to be changed is the extremist group and consider that on the name of religion people are doing horrible things.
His interest grew in the American Football during his time in University and with the opportunity of his financial success he was able to buy a team of his own. He believes that apart from the business ventures he expects his player to play their best game. He considers it to be his duty to provide the best locker room in the whole of NFL, where his players enjoy luxury and comfort having a completely accessorized status. Though he expects his team to be facing a more competitive team, his team has not been able to outgrow the standard of straight loosing seasons. He considers his life every success, failure and the choices that he had made part of his destiny and fate from which he could not turn his face away.
Shahid Khan Journey from Middle Class to Billionaire Class:
