PTI | Imran Khan's Political Desk.

[W.11]

i'd give my vote to imran this time only and lets see if he can bring some change

 

[AstanoshKhan]

Qamar Zaman, others join PTI
Friday, November 18, 2011

PESHAWAR/NOWSHERA: Former world squash champion Qamar Zaman and Salim Jan Khan, a close relative of late Khudai Khidmatgar leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, here Thursday announced to join the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI).

We welcome all those who are joining PTI and will give them due respect in the party,î said Asad Qaiser, chairman provincial working committee of the party.In Nowshera, additional Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) Mian Yahya Shah Kakakhel and provincial senior vice- president Mian Rahim Shah Kakakhel joined the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf.

The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf provincial president Asad Qasir along with other party leaders visited the PML-Q leader’s house on Thursday. After the meeting both the PML-Q leaders announced joining the PTI.

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The PTI Tsunami is taking KPK in it's full thrust. Bravo

 

[Tayyab1796]

Nawaz doing another suicide attack on his party , he is willing to let PPP through senate elections in March 2012 and is yet 'undecided' on resignations . Thank you Nawaz Sharif ... u proved IK right again .

 

[koolio]

Nawaz doing another suicide attack on his party , he is willing to let PPP through senate elections in March 2012 and is yet 'undecided' on resignations . Thank you Nawaz Sharif ... u proved IK right again .

Spot on brother each passing day, Nawaz sharif and his cronies are using all their energies to defame Imran khan and his party by bringing in petty issues that are completely irrelevant, I used to support Nawaz sharif but after seeing PML-N and PPP ganging up on PTI, PML-N has lost all my respect instead of focussing on the real issues such as corruption, electricity, Gas and state owned companies etc PML-N has failed miserably in all aspects even though they may be marginally better than PPP.

Insha-allah change is in the air and it will happen very soon because I am sick and tired and fed up with same blah blah we will do this and that, I sincerely believe Imran is the man who can take Pakistan out of the current mess we are in.

 

[W.11]

 

[Omar1984]

Must Watch for every Pakistani.

 

[W.11]

 

[Omar1984]

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Imran Khan are the only two Pakistani politicians who are 100% selfless, and care deeply about their country and their people.

 

[American Eagle]

Religion and secular society need to be apart as in separate in all nations, to include Pakistan.

 

[Omar1984]

Chairman PTI Imran Khan meets Chinese leadership

Very good move made by Imran Khan to accept China's invitation after the success of the Minar-e-Pakistan Rally.

 

[W.11]

Religion and secular society need to be apart as in separate in all nations, to include Pakistan.

i appreciate your presence here but your input was highly negative and unnecessary and unrelated to the topic

 

[Omar1984]

 

[asif1986]

Electables continue joining PTI

Electables continue joining PTI

Delawar Jan
Sunday, November 20, 2011

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seems to have sustained the pace of its popularity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as prominent personalities and politicians continue to join it and people show their willingness in discussions to vote for it.

The party is getting stronger as people continue to join it.

The Imran Khan-led PTI that had hardly any elect able candidates in the province a year ago has now several politicians who have the prospect to win seats and more are gearing to join it.

Though it gained approval among the people fed-up with the established parties and national leaders over the last two years, the Lahore rally provided a big fillip for the party’s prospect of electoral victory. More than two weeks after the rally, it is still the topic of discussion not only among the public but also the politicians. The debate whether a rally can make a party big is ongoing.

Iftikhar Khan Jhagra, a former PPP provincial minister, recently joined the PTI, providing the party a candidate capable of winning election. Having a checkered political career, Jhagra is confident of winning any seat - provincial or National Assembly - in the coming polls. He had won provincial assembly seat KP-9 in 2002 when the MMA candidates defeated heavyweights of politics but lost by 210 votes in 2008.

Though he said the party would direct him whether to contest election on the provincial or National Assembly seat, he believes he could stand as candidate on PK-9, NA-3 or NA-4. “A large number of people have already joined PTI here in Jhagra and others are approaching us to make public their affiliation with the PTI,” Iftikhar Jhagra told The News. At the time when he was talking to The News, he was at a corner meeting in Joganrai where villagers joined the PTI.

“Previously, only young people had the tendency to affiliate with PTI, but now senior citizens are also joining the party,” he added. Jhagra said he would turn up a “great number of people” who would enter the party fold at the November 25 rally in Jhagra where Imran Khan would deliver an address.

Former Intelligence Bureau Director General and PPP leader Masood Sharif Khattak, who comes from the southern Karak district, has also joined Imran Khan’s party. He contested election in 2002 from NA-15 but lost to MMA’s Shah Abdul Aziz. The PTI lacked a base in the southern districts but with his joining, it gained a toehold in that region.

He could be fielded by the PTI in Karak for the lone National Assembly seat from the district.

Yaseen Khalil, a former nazim of Town-III in Peshawar, has also joined the party. In his KP-5 constituency, the PTI workers are overconfident to win the seat irrespective of the candidate’s influence.

The PTI’s mainstay in KP until now was Asad Qaiser and his team of young activists. He and crowd-puller Imran Khan were holding public meetings but now known politicians like Jhagra and Khalil who are organising gatherings, at least in and around Peshawar.

The party has issued a schedule for public rallies where politicians from other parties will be announcing their affiliation with it. Among them are ANP’s dissident MNA Khwaja Muhammad Hoti and PML-Q’s veteran leader and former federal minister Nisar Muhammad Khan.

Khwaja Hoti’s son, Omar Farooq Hoti, has already joined the PTI. Reportedly, the former has been waiting to win a promise from Imran Khan to make him the party’s provincial chief. The PTI has resisted his demand as it runs the risk to alienate the loyalist party activists who stood with Imran Khan through thick and thin.

Khwaja Hoti is expected to announce joining PTI on December 16 at a public meeting with Imran Khan in Mardan. But an aide to Khwaja Hoti created doubts about his decision. “December 16 is many days away and the political landscape might have changed by then. Who knows he might join PML-N,” he said. Khwaja Hoti could not be reached for comment. Nisar Muhammad Khan will host Imran Khan in Charsadda to announce his joining the PTI.

 

[AstanoshKhan]

Imran met Munter in ISI chief’s presence

LONDON: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan was recently introduced to Cameron Munter, American Ambassador to Pakistan, in the presence of General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the ISI chief, according to sources, The Sunday Times reported. Imran Khan is said to have gained the backing of the country’s powerful security establishment, which has grown tired of the corruption pervading the two traditional political groupings, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), led by President Asif Ali Zardari, and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), led by Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister.

Although they do not publicly admit to favouring any party, it is an open secret that the military leadership, and the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), are backing Imran Khan’s campaign, said The Sunday Times report.

A senior official confirmed that he had the support of the army, but said his rise would cause more political damage to Sharif, the opposition leader and an outspoken military critic, than to the ruling PPP.

Others view Imran Khan as a third force to break the dominance of Pakistan’s two largest parties. “Perhaps they think he will bring about cleaner and better-quality politics and put fresh life into the country,” said Talat Masood, a retired general. “The military are perturbed by the economy because that affects defence spending.”

Imran Khan is reluctant to criticise the military establishment publicly, but he emphasises that he will not be a puppet of the generals. “Obviously you have to work with them but it doesn’t mean you have to work under them,” he told The Times.

Nawaz Sharif’s PML claimed last week that “hidden hands” were propping Imran Khan up and threatened to trigger early elections by provoking mass resignations from the parliament. The perils of upsetting the army were made clear this week when Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Washington, was forced to offer his resignation after the leak of a memo allegedly sent by the civilian government in May to American officials, asking for help to prevent a coup. Many analysts believe Haqqani, who is unpopular with the military, was made a scapegoat.

Reports that several generals had snubbed a state banquet before tense meetings with Zardari added to speculation that the PPP has fallen from favour with the military. Despite his popularity, many Pakistanis remain unconvinced that Imran Khan has the political experience to win an election. Several newspapers have also questioned his ability to lead the country, with some describing his policies as naive.

“I think it’s more a vote of no confidence (in the government) than of confidence in Khan,” said General Mahmud Ali Durrani, a former national security adviser.Imran Khan himself attributes his rising fortunes to the public’s frustration with their dishonest leaders. “In recent years, never have the people of Pakistan faced such corruption, lawlessness, lack of governance — it’s total chaos,” he said in an interview last week.

“In the beginning people could not connect corruption at the highest levels with poverty and their own situation. Today people have connected it. People realise that unemployment, poverty, inflation are all because of the corruption of the ruling elite.”

The PTI chief has pledged that if he wins power, he will make all politicians declare their assets and start paying taxes. “The reason why Pakistan is bankrupt today is because we have the lowest ratio of tax to gross domestic product and we have the highest amount of corruption,” he said.

A combination of his charisma and the public’s frustration with both mainstream parties drew a crowd estimated at up to 200,000 to a rally in Lahore last month, one of the largest Pakistan has seen.

Describing the event as a “mini-revolution” and the start of a political “tsunami”, Imran Khan said he was confident that the crowds would be even larger at his next rally in Karachi. “People are looking for change,” he said.

Imran met Munter in ISI chief

 

[Omar1984]

^ Theres no proof. And what is the Sunday Times? I searched for the original report from Sunday Times and couldn't find it. Also what is according to sources? What are the sources? This story doesn't make any sense,and its mostly likely false news.