Khan: immigrant son's rise from housing estate to city hall

[WorldNews]

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London's new mayor Sadiq Khan has gone from a public housing estate in the British capital to running the city, a remarkable rise for the Pakistani immigrant bus driver's son. The 45-year-old, a former human rights lawyer and an opposition Labour lawmaker, was swept into City Hall on 57 percent of the vote, becoming the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital in the process. After a campaign that saw his main rival try to establish links between Khan and Islamist extremists, the mayor now faces the task of bringing London's diverse communities together to keep it on its perch as a top world city.

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