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Why Imran Khan will win
With his piece titled “Why Imran cannot win” (July 27), Mr Farrukh Saleem joined the ranks of the few columnists and armchair intellectuals who defend the status quo, who are desperately trying to persuade people that despite the PTI’s rising popularity, the votes in the ballot box will go to powerful landlords and feudals.
Farrukh Saleem has employed the unique approach of using incomplete statistics and findings from a PhD dissertation. But the columnist conveniently, perhaps deliberately, ignores the fact that in the freest and fairest elections of 1970 the vote of the downtrodden in West Pakistan, in what is Pakistan today, was overwhelmingly in favour of the populist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto was perceived by the masses, especially the rural population, as someone who could free them from the clutches of the landlords and feudals. ***(Yeah I remember reading the heading Burj ulat gaye,)
Powerful political leaders, some of them icons, were demolished in the populist tidal wave of 1970, destroying the myth of these leaders’ invincibility in which the political pundits of the day believed. In that eventful year, Pakistan did not have the electronic media that reaches the majority of households today. The fact that the sweeping change took place without Bhutto having this virtually universal outreach available to politicians now shows how baseless the myth is about Imran Khan and the Tehrik-e-Insaaf.
If incomplete and outdated statistics were the basis of analyses, there would be no hope for change in Pakistan, or anywhere else in the world. But in the wake of the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia – which went on to sweep through Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, and which did not leave Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman unaffected – Farrukh Saleem’s arguments are weak, at best.
The description of a vast majority of Pakistanis as “kammis” is demeaning and derogatory, to say the least. Pakistanis are not “kammis” doomed to a life of misery and deprivation forever. Recent opinion polls conducted by credible and internationally renowned research organisations show that the people of Pakistan have had enough of the self-serving politics of parties such as the PPP and the PML-N. The entrenched political parties may have “electables,” but if you take the shifting public opinion, that is the only thing they will soon be left with.
Farrukh Saleem advances a notion of perpetual stagnation in socio-political development in the rural areas. This is ignoring history. Exploitative systems in rural France and Russia, for example, eventually led to change. Or maybe Mr Saleem believes that things have to be far worse for our “kammis” to find impetus for an upheaval. Or else he is one of those who detest change, out of fear that it would dislodge them from their comfortable lifestyles. Despite their drawing-room chatter in which they advocate change, deep down, it seems, the privileged few abhor it.
The writer also fails to recognise the influence of modern-day communication, including the impact of text-messaging and social networking websites. In arriving at the conclusions from his statistical study, he completely ignores the exponential increase in the access to electronic media and the effect of increasingly easy means of communication through mobile phones. Farrukh Saleem may have got carried away by all the statistics and descriptions of our rural society resulting in an analysis that somehow based itself on the assumption that our rural areas have been and remain completely isolated to the developments taking place in other parts of the country.
Farrukh Saleem has chosen the side of the forces that seek the preservation of the status quo. His assertion that Imran Khan is about “intangible ideas” is beyond comprehension. Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have always advocated a system which is just, where the powerful and weak are equal before the law. He is the first political leader in the last three decades who has led a campaign against the rampant corruption that has destroyed institutions and led to uncontrolled price hikes and inflation. In the mud-slinging contests that follow discussions and debates related to politicians’ wealth, assets and taxation, Imran Khan is the only name that comes out unscathed. On the issue of taxes, he is the only voice criticising the injustice of the salaried class and the poor being taxed while the rich ruling elite siphons out its wealth abroad without paying taxes. His tax reforms include taxing the rich to pay for social services for the poor.
And where other political parties and their visionless leaders merely appear to be waiting for their turn to come into power, Imran Khan is the only politician to have laid out a strategy for change – the 100-day plan – that provides a framework of policy changes to address the challenges confronting Pakistani society by taking them head-on. Challenges that affect the day-to-day lives of ordinary citizens, the majority “kammis.”
Indeed, Imran Khan talks about “ghairat.” How can any nation rise without self-esteem? Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s baptism in populist politics was his speech in the UN Security Council and his subsequent speeches during his whirlwind tour of the country in which he castigated President Ayub Khan for his alleged sell-out on Kashmir at Tashkent. Tashkent and Kashmir had nothing do with “personal issues,” but with the collective conscience of society. The party which Imran Khan founded and chairs is a Movement for Justice, and he did not join politics merely to try to bring about cosmetic changes in Pakistan. To his exponentially growing throngs of supporters he is a symbol of fundamental and structural changes in this country. He is the symbol of politics the way it should be practised, where those in power are meant to serve people, not to prolong their rule and enrich their coffers.
He began his party with the clear objective of creating a just society, especially for our downtrodden “kammis,” where everyone is equal under the law. And this is exactly why Imran Khan will win. Win he surely will, since, for the vast majority of youths in Pakistan’s rural and urban regions, he is a powerful and charismatic alternative. He is an alternative to the system that has deprived the common man, especially in the rural areas, of a life of equality and dignity. He aspires for a system where everyone can look forward to a better and prosperous future.
The winds of change are blowing and there is no stopping the PTI now.
The writer is a freelance contributor based in Rawalpindi. Email: zirgham@gmail.com
why Imran khan will Win.
With his piece titled “Why Imran cannot win” (July 27), Mr Farrukh Saleem joined the ranks of the few columnists and armchair intellectuals who defend the status quo, who are desperately trying to persuade people that despite the PTI’s rising popularity, the votes in the ballot box will go to powerful landlords and feudals.
Farrukh Saleem has employed the unique approach of using incomplete statistics and findings from a PhD dissertation. But the columnist conveniently, perhaps deliberately, ignores the fact that in the freest and fairest elections of 1970 the vote of the downtrodden in West Pakistan, in what is Pakistan today, was overwhelmingly in favour of the populist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto was perceived by the masses, especially the rural population, as someone who could free them from the clutches of the landlords and feudals. ***(Yeah I remember reading the heading Burj ulat gaye,)
Powerful political leaders, some of them icons, were demolished in the populist tidal wave of 1970, destroying the myth of these leaders’ invincibility in which the political pundits of the day believed. In that eventful year, Pakistan did not have the electronic media that reaches the majority of households today. The fact that the sweeping change took place without Bhutto having this virtually universal outreach available to politicians now shows how baseless the myth is about Imran Khan and the Tehrik-e-Insaaf.
If incomplete and outdated statistics were the basis of analyses, there would be no hope for change in Pakistan, or anywhere else in the world. But in the wake of the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia – which went on to sweep through Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, and which did not leave Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman unaffected – Farrukh Saleem’s arguments are weak, at best.
The description of a vast majority of Pakistanis as “kammis” is demeaning and derogatory, to say the least. Pakistanis are not “kammis” doomed to a life of misery and deprivation forever. Recent opinion polls conducted by credible and internationally renowned research organisations show that the people of Pakistan have had enough of the self-serving politics of parties such as the PPP and the PML-N. The entrenched political parties may have “electables,” but if you take the shifting public opinion, that is the only thing they will soon be left with.
Farrukh Saleem advances a notion of perpetual stagnation in socio-political development in the rural areas. This is ignoring history. Exploitative systems in rural France and Russia, for example, eventually led to change. Or maybe Mr Saleem believes that things have to be far worse for our “kammis” to find impetus for an upheaval. Or else he is one of those who detest change, out of fear that it would dislodge them from their comfortable lifestyles. Despite their drawing-room chatter in which they advocate change, deep down, it seems, the privileged few abhor it.
The writer also fails to recognise the influence of modern-day communication, including the impact of text-messaging and social networking websites. In arriving at the conclusions from his statistical study, he completely ignores the exponential increase in the access to electronic media and the effect of increasingly easy means of communication through mobile phones. Farrukh Saleem may have got carried away by all the statistics and descriptions of our rural society resulting in an analysis that somehow based itself on the assumption that our rural areas have been and remain completely isolated to the developments taking place in other parts of the country.
Farrukh Saleem has chosen the side of the forces that seek the preservation of the status quo. His assertion that Imran Khan is about “intangible ideas” is beyond comprehension. Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have always advocated a system which is just, where the powerful and weak are equal before the law. He is the first political leader in the last three decades who has led a campaign against the rampant corruption that has destroyed institutions and led to uncontrolled price hikes and inflation. In the mud-slinging contests that follow discussions and debates related to politicians’ wealth, assets and taxation, Imran Khan is the only name that comes out unscathed. On the issue of taxes, he is the only voice criticising the injustice of the salaried class and the poor being taxed while the rich ruling elite siphons out its wealth abroad without paying taxes. His tax reforms include taxing the rich to pay for social services for the poor.
And where other political parties and their visionless leaders merely appear to be waiting for their turn to come into power, Imran Khan is the only politician to have laid out a strategy for change – the 100-day plan – that provides a framework of policy changes to address the challenges confronting Pakistani society by taking them head-on. Challenges that affect the day-to-day lives of ordinary citizens, the majority “kammis.”
Indeed, Imran Khan talks about “ghairat.” How can any nation rise without self-esteem? Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s baptism in populist politics was his speech in the UN Security Council and his subsequent speeches during his whirlwind tour of the country in which he castigated President Ayub Khan for his alleged sell-out on Kashmir at Tashkent. Tashkent and Kashmir had nothing do with “personal issues,” but with the collective conscience of society. The party which Imran Khan founded and chairs is a Movement for Justice, and he did not join politics merely to try to bring about cosmetic changes in Pakistan. To his exponentially growing throngs of supporters he is a symbol of fundamental and structural changes in this country. He is the symbol of politics the way it should be practised, where those in power are meant to serve people, not to prolong their rule and enrich their coffers.
He began his party with the clear objective of creating a just society, especially for our downtrodden “kammis,” where everyone is equal under the law. And this is exactly why Imran Khan will win. Win he surely will, since, for the vast majority of youths in Pakistan’s rural and urban regions, he is a powerful and charismatic alternative. He is an alternative to the system that has deprived the common man, especially in the rural areas, of a life of equality and dignity. He aspires for a system where everyone can look forward to a better and prosperous future.
The winds of change are blowing and there is no stopping the PTI now.
The writer is a freelance contributor based in Rawalpindi. Email: zirgham@gmail.com
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^^ If farrukh saleem used the outdated data to support his contention, he should have come up the latest facts and figures instead of throwing the entire article in dust bin.
Further, I dont know how the remarks 'kammis' are derogatory and demeaning. It is a fact that only 2% to 3% of the entire population of Pakistan which is always the beneficiary in every govt. rest of the people are Kammis of that elite class either directly or indirectly. Even if the statistics of 70s have been used, so is there any improvement in standard of living of an ordinary man? no.. it started showing an increasing trend during Mush's era, but the recent govt. has ruined the all in negative.
So instead of comparing with other countries of the world, where normally an ordinary poor man is not that dependent on elite class, as we find in our country. We are an agriculture country which itself falls in definition of 3rd world countries. So instead of 'getting happy' with the polls (in which those kammis of feudal do not participate), should come up with facts and figure rather than facing off from the reality.
Further, I dont know how the remarks 'kammis' are derogatory and demeaning. It is a fact that only 2% to 3% of the entire population of Pakistan which is always the beneficiary in every govt. rest of the people are Kammis of that elite class either directly or indirectly. Even if the statistics of 70s have been used, so is there any improvement in standard of living of an ordinary man? no.. it started showing an increasing trend during Mush's era, but the recent govt. has ruined the all in negative.
So instead of comparing with other countries of the world, where normally an ordinary poor man is not that dependent on elite class, as we find in our country. We are an agriculture country which itself falls in definition of 3rd world countries. So instead of 'getting happy' with the polls (in which those kammis of feudal do not participate), should come up with facts and figure rather than facing off from the reality.
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I AM NOT AGAINST PTI, but Imran khan announced that he will fight a case in England against the killings made by ALTAF HUSSAIN. So is it gone in air? IMRAN KHAN supported a dictator ? why? He makes lot of high volumes about democracy? How he is different from others? LOOK AT THE WISDOM OF IMRAN KHAN, When taliban conquered SWAT , DIR and were planning to conquer the setteled areas , Imran Khan wanted the govt to settle the dispute by talking , he mentioned at that time no army could conquer swat in history . TALIBAN WERE FUNDED BY INTENATIONAL SPY AGENCIES AGAINST PAK ARMY, AND THE WORLD SAW THAT ARMY RECAPTURED THE AREA AND NOW SWAT IS PEACEFULL BYA ND LARGE . THE POLOITICAL SENSE OF IMRAN KHAN IS NOT MATURE . HE IS CHILD IN POLITICS . HE RAN AWAY FROM KARACHI BY THE FEAR OF MQM?WHY?
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Imran confident of beating N in polls
Addressing a press conference at a local hotel here Sunday on the launch of Jaag Utho Pakistan, a virtual campaign on the internet to motivate the youth against oppressive rule, he suggested the PML-N should resign and come out of the Parliament if it was not playing a fixed match. PTI leaders including Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Ahsan Rasheed, Dr Yasmin Rashid Salomi Bokhari and others were present on the occasion.
Khan said his party would lead a sit-in on the Constitution Avenue from Iftar to Sehr on every weekend to protest against non-implementation of court verdicts, price hike, loadshedding of gas and electricity, drone attacks, worsened law and order and rampant corruption in government institutions.
Referring to the recent campaign of party membership through SMS, he said over 125,000 youngsters joined the PTI in the last three days. He hoped his party would sweep the next general elections and Lahore would turn into PTIs stronghold.
The PTI will beat Nawaz Sharif even if he plays with own umpires, he said, adding that the people of Pakistan would stand by the Supreme Court, which was struggling to net the big fish to uphold the rule of law without any discrimination.
Calling the political leaders mafia, he said the PTI would neither join hands with any of these parties nor accept corrupt and opportunist politicians in its fold.
Addressing a press conference at a local hotel here Sunday on the launch of Jaag Utho Pakistan, a virtual campaign on the internet to motivate the youth against oppressive rule, he suggested the PML-N should resign and come out of the Parliament if it was not playing a fixed match. PTI leaders including Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Ahsan Rasheed, Dr Yasmin Rashid Salomi Bokhari and others were present on the occasion.
Khan said his party would lead a sit-in on the Constitution Avenue from Iftar to Sehr on every weekend to protest against non-implementation of court verdicts, price hike, loadshedding of gas and electricity, drone attacks, worsened law and order and rampant corruption in government institutions.
Referring to the recent campaign of party membership through SMS, he said over 125,000 youngsters joined the PTI in the last three days. He hoped his party would sweep the next general elections and Lahore would turn into PTIs stronghold.
The PTI will beat Nawaz Sharif even if he plays with own umpires, he said, adding that the people of Pakistan would stand by the Supreme Court, which was struggling to net the big fish to uphold the rule of law without any discrimination.
Calling the political leaders mafia, he said the PTI would neither join hands with any of these parties nor accept corrupt and opportunist politicians in its fold.
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He never ran away from karachi infact he was not allowed to enter karachi by the ghundas of Karachi i.e MQM.... and I agree with you he shouldn't have taken back his case Altaf hussain in London.....
4 din bandey maaro phr sufaid jhandey lehra do jo mar gaye unka hissaab kon day ga ??
Insaaaf chaheye un sb k liye bhi jo 12 may ko marey....
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i am still undecided that imran can win but i hope he will get political power as much as MQM and other pressure groups has .
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MQM only has power in karachi some due to ghunda gardee and some genuine support no support for MQM elsewhere in pakistan so far...... but IK has support everywhere in Pakistan.... at least I am confident that he will win in KPK and some parts of punjab not sure about Sindh and balochistan
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PTI or IK did not back off from the case against Altaf Hussain but the witnesses did. The case is still pending with the Scotland yard but the witnesses who were supposed to testify in the case backed out fearing for their security and lives.
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Imran Khan doesn't understand politics....he is popular because of cricket.....he doesn't know what administration and governance is all about.....leading a country is not a joke....Imran must realize this fact....he should stop fooling around pakistanis now
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You need a lot to learn about Pakistan and its politics.
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Such changes dont happen in 5 years, even India after working for almost 60 years on all these metric has not been able to achieve them. I would recommend Pakistanis to think with logic and dont vote emotionally, all these promises seem very nice but are basically impossible to execute until change is present in society itself. The government you have reflects the way your society is structured. Imran Khan is just trying to milk the cow right now to gain popularity, he rarely makes sense and love to pull on the emotional strings of Pakistanis by citing key issues on which he has no clear game plan other than making dreamy promises.
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Like others... I have asked their supporters numerous times,,, but couldn't get the answer...
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