100 Day Plan, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)

[Respect4Respect01]

we youth must to vote to imran khan
but 65% people are living in villages and in village people still support ppp or pmln that is serious problem

villagers dont really vote for any one, the real problem are the "choudrys or waderas" who takes all votes from village and sell it to some party. Ik some people who gave whole villages votes to mushi's choudrys.

 

[asad71]

Do you think he is emerging as a caretaker PM with the military backing him?

 

[Sugarcane]

Do you think he is emerging as a caretaker PM with the military backing him?

IMO - Not, because its agenda is not in favor of establishment. Otherwise he can be actual PM in Musharaf's era

 

[Janubaba]

Imran Khan should implement shariat in Pakistan

 

[Leader]

Do you think he is emerging as a caretaker PM with the military backing him?

the weakened military establishment is coming up with another party... PTI is no where near in their control...

 

[Rafael]

Imran Scores a popular century.

ALL those who frown at the Imran Khan options in politics, they presumably are the indefatigable optimists who still believe that so-called progressive politics still has a future in this country; or they are people who exist at a comfortable distance from Lahore and have no idea of the long reigning monotony in the city.

For those who cannot escape Lahore and have fallen off the progressive cocoons, Imran Khan has already livened up the proceedings with his new spell. He has displayed his growing street power in Karachi as well as in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In Punjab, which he should be very keen on impacting, he has spun an impressive show in Multan and is now set to take his campaign to Faisalabad.

What is more, he has sought to fulfil the long-voiced demand of a programme from him by coming up with a 100-day crash plan on reforming Pakistan. In the tradition of a true guerilla fighter, the keyword that sustains his advance is withdrawal.

Mr Khan says that should his party come to power he is going to focus on political approaches to end the war on terror. Force will be the last option. Indeed, the PTI would withdraw from the war on terror and declare a war on corruption instead. The troops would be withdrawn from Fata and Mr Khan’s favourite grand jirga would be constituted to bring in peace.

The government will be inclined to say that this is exactly how they viewed the Fata situation before they were compelled to employ force as a last resort. Imran Khan goes beyond this when he promises such drastic steps as the setting up of a commission to probe rights violations in Fata and Swat, cancellation of visas of all foreign security operators, not to speak of a ban on drone attacks and a blockage of Nato supplies.

Within the first 100 days of power, Imran Khan promises: an independent accountability commission under a new anti-corruption law; dismantling of sugar, cement, fertiliser cartels; a Pakistan infrastructure fund contributed to by overseas Pakistanis; reduction in indirect taxation on fuel; end to deficit financing; elimination of the power circular debt and hawala transactions.

If not an exact opposite of the current government policies, Imran Khan’s 100 is anti-status quo and as ambitious a vote-catcher as one can hope for. In a nutshell, it reads like a collection of all the pro-people, anti-establishment stories the journalists have a bias for in times such as these. It is reflective of the sentiments of large sections of Pakistanis. This is not about power, at least not as yet, and not about whether Mr Khan has the ability or the right conditions to change. He may not be exactly poised for a landslide in elections — he is popular enough and his calls are being reciprocated sufficiently by the public for other politicians to make adjustments accordingly. It does serve as a serious enough agent that is seeking to break the monotony of Pakistani politics.

You have to be permanently living in Lahore since the Zia days to realise how desperately some of us crave diversity and an anti-thesis to the present theme. It’s been the same faces, the same politics in which the Sharifs have been — sometimes only academically — pitted against the PPP.

All those who have sought to engage the Sharifs from a non-PPP platform have faded away quickly. As have people who have
taken them from the PPP’s platform.

The Sharifs remain, in ever diversified manifestations, but, ultimately, as one single entity. There is Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif who is as vocal and possessive about his initiatives as ever. There is his son Hamza who, when he is presiding over a meeting of officials somewhere, has to be doing so as a representative of Punjab’s ruling family. There are so many other MNAs belonging to the PML-N itself who do not get to chair even one such official meeting in their tenure.

Nawaz Sharif is not even an MNA. Yet he gets to chair in Lahore’s own imposing ‘nine zero’ meetings that are called to decide important matters of the government. He was back at ‘nine zero’ the Mall last week, to oversee some corrective work of very basic nature on the famed but somewhat stalled Walled City Project.

This omnipresence of the Sharifs obviously has its merits. For beginners, the old dictum that you could never accuse the Sharifs of idleness still holds true as whatever takes place in the province by way of governance carries the Sharif stamp on it.

Boring stuff, ultimately.

Imran Khan injects an element of the expected-unexpected in the air. Those who have been on the tour before Mr Khan, like the passengers on the Islamic Jamhoori Ittehad’s establishment-driven bandwagon, realise what miracles on-way hospitality from the right quarters can lead to. Consequently, there is visible anxiety in the Raiwind camp, which in a recent statement, considered Mr Khan to be worthy enough playing for President Zardari.

This is not about power but about something that is more profound and permanent. The increasing discussion about Imran Khan and his politics as an option signals the establishment of new benchmarks in Pakistani politics upon which the future moderates and not will be judged.

Through a long process, the Right has gained ground in the country as it has elsewhere in the world. It is now looking to consolidate. With past progressives failing to listen to pro-people stories crying out to be heard, it may essentially turn out to be a fight among the Right to decide who gets the consolidation contract. From among their ranks will emerge leaders who we are going to address as forward-looking.

Imran Khan is an important player in the game who is in need of partners. He once had a team even if he was not known for carrying out expert plans. Today he has got a plan and should go looking for a team.

The writer is Dawn’s resident editor in Lahore.

 

[Rafael]

Tareen to launch "party of the clean"

LAHORE: Former federal minister Jehangir Khan Tareen says a party of ‘clean’ politicians will be launched in September to provide an alternative to Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N in the next general election.

The new party could forge an alliance with Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf “due to the similarities in objectives”, Mr Tareen, who is the parliamentary leader of PML-F, told Dawn on Tuesday.

The nucleus of the new party will comprise the ‘electables’ – politicians who have the potential to win the polls in a National Assembly constituency on their own. Sources said Mr Tareen has held meetings with a number of politicians of the mainstream parties to woo them to his side.

Among the politicians who are said to have shown some inclination of joining the new political party are PPP renegade MNA Shah Mahmood Qureshi; outspoken former PML-Q member Marvi Memon; PML-Q MNA Awais Leghari,; Jaffar Leghari; former federal minister and a rival of Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani from his Multan constituency, Sikandar Bosan; former minister of state Ishaq Khan Khakwani; former PML-N MNA from Faisalabad Raja Nadir Pervaiz; former minister of state Omar Ayub; former federal minister G. G. Jamal; former federal minister Sarwar Khan; former National Reconstruction Bureau chief Danyal Aziz; PML-Q MNA Tahir Shah; and former Punjab governor Mian Mohammad Azhar.

PML-N MNA Javed Hashmi and PPP’s Aitzaz Ahsan, Naheed Khan and Senator Safdar Abbasi have also been approached to join the emerging party. Likewise, a group of MNAs and MPAs belonging to the PML-N and Q from the Seraiki belt and Sindh are said to have assured Mr Tareen that they will at least seriously consider joining his ‘clean’ outfit.

“The establishment believes that Imran Khan’s party and a group of clean politicians can emerge as a strong political force in the coming elections as both the major parties – PPP and PML-N – have disappointed the people,” a source who is familiar with the effort of creating the new party says.

Confirming he was striving to shape a new party of ‘clean’ politicians, Mr Jehangir Tareen, who is an MNA from Rahim Yar Khan, said: “The new party will consist of only clean and untainted politicians who will work for the betterment of the country. We are getting together on a single platform not for power but for the sake of a country where corruption is so rampant today.”

In what appeared to be an application of an old formula, Mr Tareen’s focus is “on clean politicians who can secure their seats in the national or provincial assemblies”.

The emphasis on the ‘clean’ apart, this is a policy not dissimilar to the one adopted by the PML-Q leaders before the 2008 election – a policy that failed to deliver since many of PML-Q’s so called sure winners lost in that election. Yet, in his telephonic talk with Dawn on Tuesday, Mr Tareen sounded hopeful as he unveiled his attempt to ally with “parliamentarians who are unhappy with their parties over the way the affairs of the party and the country are being run”.

According to his count some 20 well-known politicians who are not part of the parliament now and about 30 parliamentarians across the country have agreed to join his party which is to be announced in September. “These politicians are not opportunists and practise the politics of ideology,” Mr Tareen said.

“And they are going to be backed up by a team of technocrats who would advise on ways of dealing with the challenges the country is faced with.”

“No, the establishment has no role in it,” Mr Jehangir Tareen responded to the obvious question that has greeted all past congregations of the ‘electables’ in Pakistan. Instead, he said the move had arisen out of a strongly felt need to save the country. “If we do not come forward we will be equally responsible for the condition of our country,” he said.

A large number of politicians who are in line for joining the ‘clean’ party come from rural background. Yet Mr Tareen did not rule out an alliance with Imran Khan’s PTI which has recently come up with an urban-centric, 100-day plan of action should it come to power. “Imran Khan has waged a war against corruption and our objective is more or less the same. The two of us may join hands for the election,” Mr Tareen said.

 

[Riseup]

Politics, politicians and their parties are the major problem in Pakistan, if this problem resolved all other problem will relatively resolve. We badly need politicians who have sympathy with the Homeland. I hope InshaAllah we get some good politicians and their alliance in near future.

 

[Leader]

some of the seasonal Columnists also mentioning this effort of tareen as great initiative, we all know this is nonesense initiated by Establishment....
cannot fool us now !! the confusion maybe spread by Ganjaz to derail the efforts of PTI.

and rumours are being spread that PTI may merge into it.... HahHaaahahhah...... moreover some say its name is Tehrik-e-Insaf. while PTI is Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf... a little bit of twist

Tareen to launch "party of the clean"

LAHORE: Former federal minister Jehangir Khan Tareen says a party of ‘clean’ politicians will be launched in September to provide an alternative to Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N in the next general election.

The new party could forge an alliance with Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf “due to the similarities in objectives”, Mr Tareen, who is the parliamentary leader of PML-F, told Dawn on Tuesday.

The nucleus of the new party will comprise the ‘electables’ – politicians who have the potential to win the polls in a National Assembly constituency on their own. Sources said Mr Tareen has held meetings with a number of politicians of the mainstream parties to woo them to his side.

Among the politicians who are said to have shown some inclination of joining the new political party are PPP renegade MNA Shah Mahmood Qureshi; outspoken former PML-Q member Marvi Memon; PML-Q MNA Awais Leghari,; Jaffar Leghari; former federal minister and a rival of Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani from his Multan constituency, Sikandar Bosan; former minister of state Ishaq Khan Khakwani; former PML-N MNA from Faisalabad Raja Nadir Pervaiz; former minister of state Omar Ayub; former federal minister G. G. Jamal; former federal minister Sarwar Khan; former National Reconstruction Bureau chief Danyal Aziz; PML-Q MNA Tahir Shah; and former Punjab governor Mian Mohammad Azhar.

PML-N MNA Javed Hashmi and PPP’s Aitzaz Ahsan, Naheed Khan and Senator Safdar Abbasi have also been approached to join the emerging party. Likewise, a group of MNAs and MPAs belonging to the PML-N and Q from the Seraiki belt and Sindh are said to have assured Mr Tareen that they will at least seriously consider joining his ‘clean’ outfit.

“The establishment believes that Imran Khan’s party and a group of clean politicians can emerge as a strong political force in the coming elections as both the major parties – PPP and PML-N – have disappointed the people,” a source who is familiar with the effort of creating the new party says.

Confirming he was striving to shape a new party of ‘clean’ politicians, Mr Jehangir Tareen, who is an MNA from Rahim Yar Khan, said: “The new party will consist of only clean and untainted politicians who will work for the betterment of the country. We are getting together on a single platform not for power but for the sake of a country where corruption is so rampant today.”

In what appeared to be an application of an old formula, Mr Tareen’s focus is “on clean politicians who can secure their seats in the national or provincial assemblies”.

The emphasis on the ‘clean’ apart, this is a policy not dissimilar to the one adopted by the PML-Q leaders before the 2008 election – a policy that failed to deliver since many of PML-Q’s so called sure winners lost in that election. Yet, in his telephonic talk with Dawn on Tuesday, Mr Tareen sounded hopeful as he unveiled his attempt to ally with “parliamentarians who are unhappy with their parties over the way the affairs of the party and the country are being run”.

According to his count some 20 well-known politicians who are not part of the parliament now and about 30 parliamentarians across the country have agreed to join his party which is to be announced in September. “These politicians are not opportunists and practise the politics of ideology,” Mr Tareen said.

“And they are going to be backed up by a team of technocrats who would advise on ways of dealing with the challenges the country is faced with.”

“No, the establishment has no role in it,” Mr Jehangir Tareen responded to the obvious question that has greeted all past congregations of the ‘electables’ in Pakistan. Instead, he said the move had arisen out of a strongly felt need to save the country. “If we do not come forward we will be equally responsible for the condition of our country,” he said.

A large number of politicians who are in line for joining the ‘clean’ party come from rural background. Yet Mr Tareen did not rule out an alliance with Imran Khan’s PTI which has recently come up with an urban-centric, 100-day plan of action should it come to power. “Imran Khan has waged a war against corruption and our objective is more or less the same. The two of us may join hands for the election,” Mr Tareen said.

 

[S.M.R]

Yesterday I was watching IK stance on Joining with PML-N, he said 'banda 1 dafa dhoka khaata hai, 2 dafa dhoka khaata hai, 3 dafa nahi'.

In next elections PTI will sweep all the seats.

Good.