Poll: Who Was Asia's Person of the Year in 2012? IK leading by 89% of votes

[jayron]

It is just wrong to say that Imran is not known outside the subcontinent. He was more popular in Britain, Australia and other cricketing nations.
His political career has introduced him in the west as well.

He does go around the world and his voice is heard.

Its very easy to be dismissive of anyone. Please dont be biased.




Listen. He is an icon and a very well known philanthropist and politics has added to his popularity.

we can disagree with him, but it he has every right to exercise his views.

Lastly, I would prefer him running my country than the snakes currently in power.

Imran Khan could be a decent honest individual. But he definitely doesn't look strong or practical. For example, take WOT. He says if he comes to power, he will stop Pakistan's support to WOT. US is in your neighborhood for its benefit. So they will continue with their job with or without your support. Not being their ally will affect Pakistan much more. I also believe IK's support is limited to the urban populace. He neither has the grassroots knowledge nor is he a trained diplomat to lead a difficult country like Pakistan.

 

[mr42O]

or MQM only use phone so they cant vote ?

the poll is only known by PTI guys i guess

 

[Silverblaze]

Imran Khan could be a decent honest individual. But he definitely doesn't look strong or practical. For example, take WOT. He says if he comes to power, he will stop Pakistan's support to WOT. US is in your neighborhood for its benefit. So they will continue with their job with or without your support. Not being their ally will affect Pakistan much more. I also believe IK's support is limited to the urban populace. He neither has the grassroots knowledge nor is he a trained diplomat to lead a difficult country like Pakistan.

Well again his main contention is that if the US is negotiating with Taliban why can't Pakistan? He will obviously not stop crack down on hardcore criminals, but he will certainly remove this image of Pakistani govt and army of being a US stooge which is actually fueling anger.

This makes sense. We need to fight criminals on our own and not by US's will. By criminals I mean everyone who use our territory.

 

[batmannow]

Let's see where he stands in pakistani politics?
It will becomE clear in a month or 2,bt yes is a famous guy in the world !

 

[SHAMK9]

IK and Malala are leading the poll

 

[mr42O]

for IK is famours no dout but i would want Malala to win

 

[Supply&Demand]

Seriously..only PTI guys have taken this seriously...see the below comments on the link...all PTI supporters...

 

[cloud_9]

Translate this poll to Chinese and you will have 200 to 300 million votes for Jeremy Lin

 

[batmannow]

Malala adjudged Herald’s Person of the Year
From the Newspaper | Our Correspondent | 19 hours ago 0
Malala adjudged Herald




KARACHI, Jan 3: Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been chosen as the Herald’s Person of the Year for 2012 for “championing the cause of girls’ education which brought her under direct fire from the Taliban”.

The Person of the Year project, part of the Herald’s special annual issue which hits the newsstands across Pakistan on Friday, set out to recognise those individuals in Pakistan who had a profound influence on the news and who had embodied, for good or ill, what was important about the previous year.

Yousufzai — who is currently recovering in a hospital in the United Kingdom after having been attacked by gunmen in her hometown Swat last year — emerged as the victor in a three-way voting process which included online voting, postal ballots and votes from a panel of 10 eminent Pakistanis.

A 33.3 per cent weightage was assigned to each of the three constituent parts of the voting process.

In the final, cumulative result, Yousufzai received 30.4pc of the votes, followed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who received 24.1pc. He was included in the list of 10 nominees for Herald’s Person of the Year for “pursuing a campaign of unprecedented judicial activism”.

Other candidates in the running were Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour; Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani; real estate tycoon Malik Riaz; film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy; Interior Minister Rehman Malik; Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar; Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim; and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

 

[Amolthebest]

Normally Imran Khan means a bollywood actor outside of Pakistan. Even Pakistani IK mentioned bollywood IK in his interviews. So 28 years actor is more popular than IK even in non residential Pakistanis too

 

[Gandalf]

Duh,the sole reason for this is the site gets 25% of it's visitors from Pakistan.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/asiasociety.org

 

[I spikes therefore I am]

What IK achieved so far other than gotten cricket world cup? how his vision is unique from others? did he brought any social change in his country. nobody know about him outside Pakistan, second top Malala? coollllll...... .

 

[American Pakistani]

Normally Imran Khan means a bollywood actor outside of Pakistan. Even Pakistani IK mentioned bollywood IK in his interviews. So 28 years actor is more popular than IK even in non residential Pakistanis too

Hahaha what a joker.

Even here in US & Canada Imran Khan(Pakistani) is famous. Not only that, even i didn't knew abt indian one until last 2days.