Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that the last two years of his life were the toughest, despite having struggled all his life, as the country was facing challenges from all fronts.

The premier expressed these views during an interview with senior journalist Kamran Khan on the show 'Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Sath' aired on Dunya News as the PTI completed its two years in power.

"My entire life has been a struggle," he said, talking about his decision to become a cricketer early on and to later set up the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital. "Politics was the biggest struggle."

But when you keep at it continuously, you learn how to do it, he said. "You no longer fear ups and downs. What happens is that when people don't struggle for something, they become worried when there are ups and downs."

So many people made political parties, but I think they gave up during bad times, he said. "Because I had an idea, I was constantly learning and getting back up on my feet."

These two years were the biggest struggle yet, because there were several challenges, the premier said. "The country's economy had crashed, we were defaulting on payments, we didn't have money to pay our debts [...] departments had collapsed and government corporations were in debt.

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