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Jao yaar mushy ka boot polishy, First give us convincing Answers but you don't have Answers so how'll you Answer. I don't know what are you on about you make no sense are you on meds you should take some rest because mushy is out of Elections and the rest of 21 days would be spent running here and there requesting other and in the end begging COAS Kiyani who's answer would be:

Ignore him . he makes no sense, talks about things are changing and when he has no answer he says " dont put you nose where it doesn't belong" dictatorship just like his leaders. :P :P :P
 
this area is under NA 122 direct for Imran Khan, losing this seat is like losing the whole battle.

He is not in my constitution. :cry: :cry: i have mian shafiq an industrialist who is famous for not doing any sifarshi work (very important) and is non corrupt. His wife is the principle of national model high school. apparently people went to him and asked him to pressure his wife to put their children in that school but he flatly refused to influence such decision.

The school was number 1 tied with beacon house in sheikhupura. I liked it about him. har koi wapis abai ghar chalay.
 
He Dont Need To Beg Anyone, He Just Need To Point Finger Who Was Who At The Time of bb,s Assination & Wht Was Kiyani,s Role In Negociations With Bb In Dubai?
May I Say, Take Ik !s Pupy To The Bed? How Its Feel Now, Ohh No you Still R Happy even takin Care His Puppy?
I Dont Mind, Kiyani Is Nearly Gone & Soon Will Be Called from Every Direction, Yes The Saviour Of The Croupts?

I know you feel hopeless but its ok you can vote someone better because mushy is out. Its not about bb's murder and lal mashjid mushy is not involved and not to be held accountable for lal masjid they had weapons in there Ii believe, but it is about violating Constitution, imposing emergencies, arresting judiciary, NRO and so on and the list is long enough I don't have to post so don't justify musharraf was right.
 
oh yes thats cool. I have my coordinators number... but he was quite upset when I called him, he wanted the candidate to contact him and then move along with things...

kindly mujhko TR campaign manager ka number day do, yahan per tou koe training session bhi nahi howa for PA-147... this area is under NA 122 direct for Imran Khan, losing this seat is like losing the whole battle.

TR campaign manager andleeb hai ?

Andleeb Abbas is TR campaign manager in all over the Pakistan, then there are provincial level heads, then City level, then NA and then PP, there are TR team leads even at UC level.. That's why I was saying that TRs have their own hierarchy. :)

And as per my info, TR training session was held in NA-122 a couple of days ago, and TR campaign is already going on in that area. My uncle is living in Garhi Shahu, and he yesterday told me that TRs are visiting door to door in his area, even came to my uncle's home yesterday.

I will try to get the contacts of concerned people in your area and will text you as soon as i get hold of them.

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Correction, I mixed NA-122 with garhi shahu.. TR training session was held in NA-122 last night in Doongi Ground Samanabad, at 7:15pm, I think you've missed it. However, let me provide you the contact details of concerned people so you can discuss it with them. Will contact you soon. And as per my info, whole TR leadership from Na-122 was there last night.
 
Andleeb Abbas is TR campaign manager in all over the Pakistan, then there are provincial level heads, then City level, then NA and then PP, there are TR team leads even at UC level.. That's why I was saying that TRs have their own hierarchy. :)

And as per my info, TR training session was held in NA-122 a couple of days ago, and TR campaign is already going on in that area. My uncle is living in Garhi Shahu, and he yesterday told me that TRs are visiting door to door in his area, even came to my uncle's home yesterday.

I will try to get the contacts of concerned people in your area and will text you as soon as i get hold of them.

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Correction, I mixed NA-122 with garhi shahu.. TR training session was held in NA-122 last night in Doongi Ground Samanabad, at 7:15pm, I think you've missed it. However, let me provide you the contact details of concerned people so you can discuss it with them. Will contact you soon. And as per my info, whole TR leadership from Na-122 was there last night.

Yar NA122 wala do TR program howe hain dono were actually for PA-148.

nothing so far in PA-147 as far as I know, because I personally talked to the coordinator of TR for PA-147 and he himself was clueless...

I dont know what they are doing here. no activity, no office nothing as far as I see in the area... :undecided:

get me some numbers asap.
 
I know you feel hopeless but its ok you can vote someone better because mushy is out. Its not about bb's murder and lal mashjid mushy is not involved and not to be held accountable for lal masjid they had weapons in there Ii believe, but it is about violating Constitution, imposing emergencies, arresting judiciary, NRO and so on and the list is long enough I don't have to post so don't justify musharraf was right.

Yes you Guys Deserve Zardari,s Or NS, Who Like To Give Meals To Judges In Dogs Eating Pot?
Thats The Best Future You Can Get, Keep Your Long List Hope Fully ! It Will Find Its Rightfull Place Under Some Heavynboots Of Some Fuji, Soon How Soon Its Yet To Be Seen Bt Surly It Will Happen? Bt This Time Maybe Brutlly!:lol::lol::lol::wave:
 
Yes you Guys Deserve Zardari,s Or NS, Who Like To Give Meals To Judges In Dogs Eating Pot?
Thats The Best Future You Can Get, Keep Your Long List Hope Fully ! It Will Find Its Rightfull Place Under Some Heavynboots Of Some Fuji, Soon How Soon Its Yet To Be Seen Bt Surly It Will Happen? Bt This Time Maybe Brutlly!:lol::lol::lol::wave:

Dont forget that Mushy is the reason why Zardari, NS came back. He implemented NRO.

Its his fault.

He was okayish in his first years, but in the end he ruined it for himself by selling himself like a prostitute to US and violating the constitution with his idiotic stunts.
 
Dont forget that Mushy is the reason why Zardari, NS came back. He implemented NRO.

Its his fault.

He was okayish in his first years, but in the end he ruined it for himself by selling himself like a prostitute to US and violating the constitution with his idiotic stunts.
Sorry Musharaf Wasnt Was the Reason, Why Both Zardari & Nawaz Came Into This World, & In Politics?
& if You Are Suggesting He Should Hve Killed Them Both, to Make A Clean Place For An Unexperinced former Fast Bowler Thn You May Be Wrong? My Friend?think Again?:lol::wave:
Cause Thats The Problem With This nation ! You Guys Shouldnt Hve Voted Them Instead?:smokin:
& Should Hve Made Right Dececions?
 
Sorry Musharaf Wasnt Was the Reason, Why Both Zardari & Nawaz Came Into This World, & In Politics?
& if You Are Suggesting He Should Hve Killed Them Both, to Make A Clean Place For An Unexperinced former Fast Bowler Thn You May Be Wrong? My Friend?think Again?:lol::wave:
Cause Thats The Problem With This nation ! You Guys Shouldnt Hve Voted Them Instead?:smokin:
& Should Hve Made Right Dececions?

Thats a pathetic excuse really. And never did I say that should have killed them, try to stay on topic.

He should not have implemented NRO. NRO IS THE REASON why Zardari and Sharif`s had the chance to come back.
 
Thats a pathetic excuse really. And never did I say that should have killed them, try to stay on topic.

He should not have implemented NRO. NRO IS THE REASON why Zardari and Sharif`s had the chance to come back.

& wht You Think Without Hving Bb Or NS On The Election List, How Would It Be Seen In World?
Pathetic Thinking?:lol:
 
Yar NA122 wala do TR program howe hain dono were actually for PA-148.

nothing so far in PA-147 as far as I know, because I personally talked to the coordinator of TR for PA-147 and he himself was clueless...

I dont know what they are doing here. no activity, no office nothing as far as I see in the area... :undecided:
get me some numbers asap.

Strange, however TR programs are always held at NA level not at PP level, may they were accidentally held both times in PP 148 instead of 147. There are few issues with venues, like we initially planned for PP 150 but due to no suitable venues we had to move it to PP 149. So may be that's the problem in your area also. But TR Coordinator should know about these things.

However, the number I gave you is of Director Operations TRP Lahore, I met him last Sunday during TR program of NA 120 near MAO Collage. I hope your issues will be resolved after contacting him.
 
Strange, however TR programs are always held at NA level not at PP level, may they were accidentally held both times in PP 148 instead of 147. There are few issues with venues, like we initially planned for PP 150 but due to no suitable venues we had to move it to PP 149. So may be that's the problem in your area also. But TR Coordinator should know about these things.

However, the number I gave you is of Director Operations TRP Lahore, I met him last Sunday during TR program of NA 120 near MAO Collage. I hope your issues will be resolved after contacting him.

hopefully, mein sabha call kar kay dekho ga usko... aaj waise asma sherazi ka program NA122 mien tha, its like 60-40 in favour of PTI a little more push and I am sure a landscape victory here as well !!

we will have a treat together on 12th of May inshallah !!
 
Buddy I have very tight schedule for tomorrow, lots of pre-planned things already for tomorrow.. :( First of all I have a project's deadline to meet, and I am working tonight very late to finish it off tonight so I will have spare time tomorrow for rest of the stuff.

We have meeting with NA candidate, then few interviews of TRs for UC coordinators selection, then a meeting with my own UC's TRs as we are going to start campaign in my own UC from Sunday and I'll be supervising it.

I'm dying to join tomorrow's rally, but these things in hand are also important. I always have Sat + Sunday off, so I planned all these things for Saturday and just today came to know about IK's rally.. To be frank, my chances are 50-50, will try my best to be there, will contact you in case I'll come.. :pakistan:
 
An excellent unbiased article highlighting Imran and his party's inner circle.

The men behind Imran Khan's bid to lead Pakistan

Gathered around a table in a room in Islamabad, a group of 20 men are engaged in vigorous debate. The qualifications for a seat at the table are formidably high. One of the men is Pakistan’s most respected industrialist; another is a highly successful broadcaster; a third, one of the country’s best known political campaigners. And at the head of the table, elegantly clad in a shalwar kameez and listening attentively to each of the arguments, is the most famous Pakistani in the world: the cricket-captain-turned-political-leader, Imran Khan.

In less than four weeks, Khan hopes to be prime minister. Sixteen years after forming his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) or Pakistan’s Movement for Justice, the man responsible for countless improbable victories on the cricket field believes he can secure the biggest win of his life at the general election on May 11.
“It will be a clean sweep,” he has declared. “It is only a question of whether it will be a simple majority, or if we will get two-thirds.”

Once in power he’s promising to transform the country, bring an end to corruption and rescue the economy. His first move will be to close down the lavish prime-ministerial palace and set up office in his hilltop bungalow.
But is victory really within his grasp? Political analysts say the system is against him. Both of the two main parties – the Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan People’s Party – have networks of patrons and “feudal” landlords that control the votes of large swathes of the rural population. And the current president, Asif Ali Zardari, still benefits from the very powerful political inheritance of his late wife Benazir Bhutto and her father, Zulfikar Ali.

Yet, as one travels the country, there is a fervour surrounding the Khan campaign that is impossible to ignore. A recent poll gave Khan a 70 per cent approval rating, compared with 14 per cent for Zardari. His rallies are like rock concerts, attracting a young crowd pumped up by Khan’s attacks on the country’s elite and his calls for a new style of politics. Pakistan’s Newsweek has even invoked the spirit of Barack Obama: “Yes He Khan”, it declares.

Of course, Khan has his critics. They cite his lack of experience (the PTI has only ever gained one of the 272 elected seats in the National Assembly, which Khan held for a brief period) and dismiss him as a creator of slogans, with no practical programme for government or any heavyweight personnel.

I travelled to Pakistan to test these claims and to meet the inner circle that surrounds Khan. I moved widely across the country, joined the crowds at one of his rallies and went behind the scenes for private meetings. My objective was not to meet Khan himself; my mission was to probe the men and women who advise him. Above all, I was eager to find out whether Khan really has created a genuine political movement with a programme for this troubled country. As far as Khan’s inner circle is concerned, it soon became clear that, while his enemies have been busy lobbing accusations of political incompetence, Khan has assembled a crack team of advisers featuring some of Pakistan’s most erudite, powerful and influential men; men who could be enjoying an easy life outside politics but whose sense of commitment to their country has persuaded them to join Khan.

The 60-year-old’s biggest coup was landing Asad Umar. Now PTI’s senior vice-president and election organiser, Umar was the chief executive of Engro, one of Pakistan’s biggest conglomerates, and, reportedly, the country’s best-paid businessman. Between 2004 and 2012 he lifted company revenues from £94 million to £768 million. If PTI wins, he is tipped to occupy an economics post.

In the party’s modest office in Lahore, I ask Umar why he joined Khan. It was, he says, a long courtship which began several years ago in a television studio. “As [Khan] was taking off his clip he turned to me and said in Urdu: ‘You are wasting your time, you should come and join us,’” says Umar. Several years later he attended a business conference where Khan was speaking. In reply to one question from the floor he said: “The day people like Asad Umar come and join us is the day we become successful.” But the wooing started in earnest in late 2011 when Umar received a text message from Khan which read: “This is the year of the revolution, and you cannot continue to stand on the sidelines. You have to take the plunge.”
Umar says that he then engaged in an intense dialogue with the ex-cricketer. “I’m testing him again and again on his commitment to the new Pakistan, to find out whether he really understands what it takes.” He says that the clinching moment came when he asked Khan whether he realised that PTI’s plans for tax reform would mean some of PTI’s own donors being forced to pay taxes. (At present less than one per cent of the country pays their taxes, and even an incredible 70 per cent of MPs do not do so.) Khan replied that, yes, he was aware of the consequences. Shortly afterwards Umar resigned from Engro and joined the party.

“The Pakistan state has been captured by the elite,” he tells me. “The state is not collecting taxes from the rich and powerful and not spending money on the welfare of the people. Some 25 million children of school age don’t go to school, and 1,000 children below the age of two die every day because of malnutrition and lack of health care.” In government, he says, PTI “will collect taxes from the rich and powerful [and] there will be unprecedented increases in social spending, in particular for the education of girls.”

Such social reforms would bring the PTI in conflict with the Pakistani Taliban who infamously left 15-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai for dead in October last year after she asserted her right to go to school. But, even though Khan was quick to visit Malala in hospital, critics have accused him of toning down his criticism of the Taliban in order to shore up right-wing votes. The English-language weekly newspaper, The Friday Times, even features a scathing column written by “Im the Dim”, a delusional and naive former cricketer who dreams of becoming prime minister and whose tactic for dealing with terrorism is to give the terrorists what they want, “and then they’ll go away and be good till the next time they’re bad”.
But, in an interview for Time magazine last year, Khan rejected any suggestion that he had been soft on extremists. “Oh please,” he said. “Do you really think I’m going to get votes from the Taliban?” Instead, he said he was intending to target the large sector of the electorate – 56 per cent of eligible voters – who historically don’t bother to visit a polling station on election day.

His party claims 10 million registered members, a phenomenal number which makes PTI by some distance the largest political party not just in Pakistan but in the world, and Khan is the only politician in the country to have used social media on a large scale to communicate with his followers and reach out to potential supporters. He regularly tweets campaign updates and policy messages to his half-a-million followers on Twitter and his official Facebook page has more than 700,000 “likes”. On my travels through Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad – Pakistan’s three greatest cities – I was struck by how many ordinary people, especially the young, insist they will vote for Khan. At rallies young men barely old enough to remember his heroics as a cricketer crowd the stage seeking autographs.

But one of Khan’s other successes has been to convince the electorate he is a man of the people, despite the fact that he and many of his inner circle come from the same privileged elite they accuse of betraying the country. Khan went to Aitchison College, the Eton of Pakistan, before moving to the UK and studying at Oxford. His foreign affairs spokesman, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, also attended Aitchison.

When I visit Qureshi in his beautifully furnished home in Lahore there is a history of Aitchison College on the table in his study and a photograph of Qureshi and other students (including the Conservative politician Bernard Jenkin) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, hanging on the wall. Qureshi comes from a long line of saints, scholars, politicians and landowners, but became a populist hero in 2011 when he quit as Pakistan’s foreign minister (the equivalent of British foreign secretary) after Zardari pushed to grant immunity to a CIA agent who had shot dead two unarmed Pakistanis in Lahore.
“My view was that he was not a diplomat as the Americans claimed,” Qureshi tells me. “Mr Zardari was of the view that he should be granted diplomatic immunity.” As soon as he had resigned, he was immediately approached by Nawaz Sharif, chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).
“He said words to the effect that I can’t see a better person than you to be foreign minister of Pakistan,” says Qureshi. But he turned down the offer.
“Frankly, the way I saw things deteriorate I am convinced that this country cannot be run on the basis that it has been run. Structural changes have to be made. For the first time I feel people are genuinely worried about the future. I feel serious concerns about an existential threat to this country. We are collapsing from within.”

As well as a failing economy, Pakistan is plagued with chronic power shortages, an epidemic of local insurgencies and sectarian violence on a terrifying scale. And stable government is absolutely crucial over the next 12 months as British and American troops prepare to pull out of Afghanistan. A collapse of the Pakistan state raises unimaginable nightmares. The entire region could be dragged into a set of conflicts even more terrible than the civil war that engulfed Afghanistan after the collapse of Soviet rule in the Nineties. It would also present new opportunities for terror groups and crime syndicates from Afghanistan, trafficking drugs, weapons and people to the West. The danger of political instability are all the graver since Pakistan, like neighbouring India, holds nuclear weapons.

For Qureshi, Imran Khan’s PTI is the only party capable of guarding against these dangers. And Umar is specific about the “structural changes” required. The PTI, he says, would break up Pakistan’s centralised state.
“We need to bring power down to the grass roots level,” he tells me. “In terms of governance, we want to take it back to where it was when Jinnah was governor-general.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, died in 1948, a year after Pakistan gained her independence. Therefore Umar is effectively saying that he wants Pakistan’s system of government to return to the high standards of probity and efficiency it enjoyed at the time of British rule. One of the common themes among Khan’s inner circle is a despair at the existing two-party system and its failure to solve Pakistan’s problems.

Before I leave Pakistan, I conduct one final interview. It is with Khan’s political strategist, Javed Hashmi, who, I noticed, was treated with the most deference by Khan at the private meeting I attended. One of the country’s best-known public figures, Hashmi has been involved in Pakistani politics since the Sixties, when, as a student agitator, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictator Ayub Khan. In all, he has endured five long terms of imprisonment, of which the most recent was a long stretch courtesy of President Pervez Musharraf, who stepped down as Pakistan’s military ruler five years ago. Hashmi was accused of treason after criticising military rule.
Why has he joined forces with Khan?
“Bringing democracy to this country and fighting against corrupt leaders is my agenda as well as his,” Hashmi tells me. “People see [Muslim League leader] Nawaz Sharif, they see Zardari, they see nothing has changed. For 10 years Imran Khan has struggled and worked. He is saying the right things, I must follow him.”

Just over 40 years ago most people dismissed the chances of Ali Bhutto when his newly formed Pakistan People’s Party ran in the 1970 national elections. Defying all the odds, his new party caught the national mood, and swept home in West Pakistan. Could Imran Khan, the sporting legend famous for snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, be about to repeat history? It’s a real possibility.

The men behind Imran Khan's bid to lead Pakistan - Telegraph
 

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