:: Imran Khan - Exclusive Interview with VICE News ::

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[lastofthepatriots]

This new?

 

[Steppe Wolff]

This new?

Yes it's recent.

 

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This new?

Uploaded last nite on VICEs' YouTube Channel & an hour back on IK's YouTube Channel.

 

[AlKardai]

I watched it last night. Good interview actually, but Isobel keeps asking her questions like a little girl, same as she did during the Afghanistan interviews

 

[FuturePAF]

I watched it last night. Good interview actually, but Isobel keeps asking her questions like a little girl, same as she did during the Afghanistan interviews

Indeed a good interview but IMHO, it could have been done stronger if the message was honed better.

Each of these interviewers and their niche audiences need to be understood to best shape how you answer their questions. Not the content of the answers, but how an answer is structured. She noted that her mother admired him in his cricketing days, with pictures in the Daily Mail, so she isn’t a hostile interviewer, like that one lady from CNN that was interviewing SMQ.

For example, in the opening of the video, you see the enthusiasm of the crowds. Western audiences don’t respond well to overly emotional people. Easy slogans that translate well if repeated to international media have a way of summarizing a movement, and making the message stick, similar to the “woman, life, freedom” slogan tried last year with the movement by Iranians against their government in 2022, or PPP’s “Roti, Chupara, Makan”. A universal and workingman’s slogan will “translate” better to global audiences. Something like “He stands up for us, so we stand with him” as well as “Equality, Justice, Rights.” As IK points to at 1:50.

On leaving cricket and entering politics, he should explain the progression of his life as a continuous call to action. From Cricket to Philanthropy to Politics. This would appeal to global athletes and sports fans. He shouldn’t downplay his cricketing career, but put its role in his life in context.

I would hope IK and the PTI reach out to someone like US Senator Bernie Sanders. He espouses similar ideals as Imran Khan and has been a strong advocate for human rights, especially in the case of the Kashmiri people.
In IK’s recent speech at the Minar-e-Pakistan, he emphasized the desire to attract investors, starting especially from amongst overseas Pakistanis. Considering the US desire to challenge China’s influence amongst countries like Pakistan, expressing a desire for Pakistan’s democracy and economy to evolve to allow a level playing field so investors would be willing to come in, increasing business opportunities for western companies, seems like a win win for the leftists in the west. Especially if they know more trade means more social spending in Pakistan, such as more kids going to school. (For left wing parties in the west, it’s also a good way to get more Pakistanis to come out and vote for them. A lot of the win for candidates in the west has come down to voter turnout. Trump who has expressed sympathy for IK could sway Pakistani-American voters to vote Republican as Pakistan’s future political stability and economic seems to be the number one issue, by far, in the community)

He should, IMHO, put more of an emphasis on his economic plan and how it will allow social services to be provided. Millions of children out of school, millions of people with preventable illness, millions of children under 5 dying early, millions feeling they are in hopeless situations trying immigrate to the western countries.

He should emphasize the PTI is a party for change through legal and democratic means. Emphasizing the PDM is using extrajudicial and unconstitutional means to undermine democracy.

He did great to highlight Elite capture as the root of corruption and how entrenched it is. He also noted the problem of with civilian supremacy, but he can’t go forward saying saying press freedoms were trampled during his tenure due to force outside his control. He needs a plan, a mechanism, an institution that will prevent these things from happening in the first place. Many left leaning people around the world will relate to this movement if he emphasizes the need for civilian supremacy, ok top of his appeal for more social spending by increasing the taxes on those that benefit from the economic system in Pakistan.

On the Taliban, emphasizing if his party in KPK, spent more on education, and with time a prosperous Pakistan that provides more services for its people will by the nature of being a neighbor raise expectations by Afghans on their own government.

He was good to not go to far as the interviewer was trying to take him with having women in government for the sake of some quota. The best candidates to allow for good governance should determine who is appointed into the post of a minister. To separate the possible perception in global audiences to see Pakistan as the same as other Middle East countries plus Afghanistan, which I hear from African and Latin American people I meet, if to show how religious freedom is enshrined in the Pakistani constitution and culture, and how IK plans to strengthen it.

He also laid out why Pakistan’s economic condition limits his ability to criticize rich countries, particularly friendly nations, on human rights abuses. If Pakistan is to be able to afford to criticize these countries, like Russia, when IK met Putin on the day of the Invasion, Pakistan needs to have the economic bandwidth to take the blowback from Russia. Just imagine if Pakistan was in that position, how IK could have told Putin to find another way, and halt his invasion.

Btw, if PTI properly present their social justice message globally they can juxtapose their message from the failure of the so called leftist party of Pakistan; the PPP and how far they have strayed from what Bhutto espoused in the 60s. But equally, PTI can show it is about capitalism as the means to provide the environment allow businesses and competition to grow and from tax revenues to be generated to pay for social services.