PTI | Imran Khan's Political Desk.

[S.M.R]

So how was the PTI's dharna in Islamabad in front of Parliament? Just show off or any success achieved?

 

[Mabs]

So how was the PTI's dharna in Islamabad in front of Parliament? Just show off or any success achieved?

MQM's been saying that they will uproot this fuedal system since 86' but you don't question them about their success ratio, do you? NO, you just blindly follow and vote for them but when it comes to PTI, you just get into your Harry Potter mode and want everything fixed with a wave of the wand.

 

[S.M.R]

MQM's been saying that they will uproot this fuedal system since 86' but you don't question them about their success ratio, do you? NO. you just blindly follow and vote fro them but when it comes to PTI, you get in the Harry Potter mode and want everything fixed with a wave of the wand.

I am in harry potter mode....

I think you are just 'internet' supporter of IK... Just listen to his speeched you will come to know who is in that mood.

 

[Leader]

MQM's been saying that they will uproot this fuedal system since 86' but you don't question them about their success ratio, do you? NO. you just blindly follow and vote fro them but when it comes to PTI, you get in the Harry Potter mode and want everything fixed with a wave of the wand.

quite epic indeed....

 

[Leader]

 

[Mabs]

I am in harry potter mode....

I think you are just 'internet' supporter of IK... Just listen to his speeched you will come to know who is in that mood.

“No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant" Warren Buffett

 

[Leader]

JAAG UTHO!


By Zarlasht Altaf, Information Secretary, PTI Women Wing, Karachi.

Our beloved Pakistan, a fortunate country having by far the youngest population, which is one of the biggest, sturdiest and prevalent assets that any country could ever have. But still the country is disintegrating with a much faster pace than ever before and is almost on the verge of collapse which is the most unfortunate part.

I won’t babble about when, why or how, since it’s apparent and not a mystery anymore. Instead I would like to ask the youngster that do we really mean it when we say (which we often do) “Our country”, which signifies unity or “My country”, which indicates individual love for the nation? If yes then “What have we done so far to save this country?”

Youth! State of being young, early life, that’s what it literally means, nothing exceptional, right? Then what’s the point of emphasizing on it so much? The answer is simple, because here we are talking about the youth of Pakistan, which is in majority and if become active then they can be as powerful as a hydrogen bomb. Enthusiastic, intelligent, courageous, extraordinary, fresh, full of innovative ideas and influential enough to bring a change, that’s how I define the youth of Pakistan. The youth that possesses the potential to make things work the way they want but only if they recognize the strength within, if they use their potential in the right direction, if they are fully stanched & determined and if they believe and don’t underestimate themselves.

It’s not possible to change the system in a blink of an eye, that’s a fact. We must apprehend that change is a whole process, which works step by step and entails team work, drudgery and time. But we should never give up, no matter what and at least try contributing our efforts for as long as we can.

When there is a will, there is a way, and for us mobilizing ourselves into politics is the way out. We always mourn, criticize, complain and question what our country and system has given to us, but do we ever consider what we have given to our country? What we have done to change the system? Or what we can do to enhance it? If no, then why we always complain and criticize? And if yes then it’s time to take initiative and be accelerative since actions speak louder than words.

Conventional, dirty politics that exists in Pakistan can only be ruled out by young political activists who are more futuristic, visionary, selfless and submissive. To change the system, we need to get into th system, at least we can try. As Imran Khan said, “If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?”

JAAG UTHO (wake up), because now it’s time to play your part!

this is certain indication that IK's leadership is effecting people's way of thinking, and they are adopting the qualities of their leader, this being so shall be the greatest gift IK would give to Pakistan and its people... GOD Bless Pakistan !!

 

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13-Aug-11, Live feed ...
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf [Offical page] - PTI Live | Facebook
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Here u can see recorded parts of proceedings as well ...
http://www.livestream.com/ptiofficial

 

[sur]

Huge Crowd today ...
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[Leader]

The News: Imran proves popularity as thousands join sit-in

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) showed a glimpse of its popularity here on Saturday night near the Parliament House when thousands of its supporters mostly youth attended the Independence Day celebration.

Through out the festivities in the presence of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, groups of the party workers kept pouring in from various parts of Pakistan to mark the historic occasion. The venue echoed with national songs and loud slogans in support of Imran Khan.

The party chairman had named the second sit-in of the holy month of Ramzan as the ‘Jashn-e-Azadi Dharna.’ The cricketer-turned politician managed to demonstrate his ability Saturday night as a crowd-puller at a time when both the mainstream parties i.e. Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz are struggling to keep their electoral strength intact, as they faced masses’ wrath, and also divisions in their ranks.

Imran Khan has repeatedly called for active participation of youth in his on-going movement: remove the government to save Pakistan and young persons in their teens and 20s turned up in large numbers at the venue.

PTI had announced to stage sit-ins close to the Parliament House on every Saturday during the month of fasting to build a momentum to send the ‘corrupt and incompetent’ government home.

Imran and key PTI leaders sat on a stage erected close to D-Chowk in front of the President House, which was tastefully decorated along with other buildings in connection with the August 14 celebrations.

Unlike the previous such occasion, party workers were asked to assemble at the venue after doing Iftari and saying Travih prayers and so they did. On last Saturday, PTI had arranged Iftar-dinner for the gathering.

The PTI chairman has said his party is counting on young voters to bring a really meaningful change in the system and do to end the slavery of the United States and the donor agencies. After recitation from the Holy Quran, a short documentary, highlighting Imran Khan’s on the field and off the field achievements, which included winning the World Cup in 1992 and building the multi-billion-rupee cancer hospital in memory of his mother, who died of the deadly ailment many years ago.

 

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پاكستان زنده باد​

 

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[S.M.R]

“No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant" Warren Buffett

Lolz... but one should stop claiming that he can reproduce baby in one month...

 

[Leader]

this is awesome yar, I thought it wasnot really as successful as in other cities, But I was wrong.... and none of the Tv channels or anchors covered PTI Protests....
but then again its another sign of PTI's growing popularity which is troubling status quo parties... especially bharat nawaz Ganja...

 

[Windjammer]

Imran Khan: A cricketing hero with his eye on political glory
He has become Pakistan's most popular politician, but he has as many enemies as friends

By Omar Waraich
Monday, 15 August 2011
Imran Khan has his eyes fixed on the job of Prime Minister
Some years ago, on a visit to London, Imran Khan was confronted about his spacious property outside Islamabad. How does it behove the former cricket legend to speak of Pakistan's poor, a student demanded to know, when he lives in "a palace"? "Don't you dare call it a palace," Khan snapped back, in mock outrage. "It's paradise."

The prized hacienda is on a hilltop. Manicured lawns sweep around the red clay-roofed, golden ochre-walled home. Inside, rooms are airy and lightly appointed. Vaulted ceilings encase a tasteful mix of stiff wooden chairs and soft white sofas.

The view, at least, is plausibly Elysian. During the day the sun splashes over the Himalayan foothills in the background, and shimmers on the nearby lake. But Khan now covets a different home. Faintly visible in the distance, down in the direction of the capital, lies the Prime Minister's residence.

"We'll win the next election," Khan insists, in characteristically self-assured tones. "There's going to be a very strong movement behind us. I can already sense it." With the prospect of elections as soon as April, he is already busy courting votes. Indeed, his "overthrow the government, save the country" campaign is agitating for a snap poll.

The optimism, he says, is not misplaced. After years in the political wilderness, a flurry of polls say the country's most popular cricketer is now its most popular politician. Last month a Pew survey showed 68 per cent of people view Khan favourably – five points ahead of his closest rival.

In the industrial town of Faisalabad last month, Imran Khan drew a mostly young crowd of some 35,000 people. The voters he's targeting are under 30, in a country where the median age is just 21. And women.

At a recent Islamabad protest, two-toned heels clattered alongside young men's trainers. "The women are watching political talk shows now," says Khan, a regular guest on cable news channels, "they're more popular than soap operas." Columnist Ayesha Tammy Haq calls it the "weak in the knees club". If Imran Khan capitalises on that, she adds, he could get half the vote.

There is a craving for change, Khan says. "Everywhere I went, people stopped me and said, 'Imran sahib, you have to save the country.'"

From the comfort of opposition, Khan rouses his crowds with angry talk of the incumbents' failure. Faced with bleak prospects, some young voters are attracted to promises to revive the economy. And in a fiercely anti-American climate, Imran Khan's nationalist pique soothes widely held feelings of wounded pride.

Yousaf Salahuddin, a childhood friend, says that is Khan's appeal. "It's still like colonial times. Our politicians believe our success lies in bowing to the Americans," he says. "Imran is different. He's not against America or Americans, but he certainly wants his country to have some sense of sovereignty or independence."

Khan also hopes to harden popular perceptions of the political class as inept, distant and venal. "This isn't a democracy, it's a kleptocracy," he alleges, indignantly. President Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, he alleges, represent the status quo.

"These people are the same. Neither pays tax, their interests are outside, they don't want tax reforms, they don't want justice, they don't want the rule of law."

In the past, Khan's message has failed to secure votes, as traditional parties proved resilient. He recalls his first campaign, in 1997. "It was the charge of the Light Brigade," he says, smiling at his five-month-old party's seatless humiliation.

"Imran was bowled for a duck," critics irresistibly crowed. In 2002, he was the last man at the crease, winning the party's only seat. And at the last election, he never left the pavilion, boycotting the 2008 polls.

Khan likes cricket metaphors. "I always fight till the last ball," says the all-rounder who led Pakistan to its only World Cup in 1992. "When I became captain, I made the team fight. We would come back to win from impossible situations."

He tries to cast his political exertions in a similar light. "Just holding the party together," he says, "was the biggest struggle I went through in my life."

As a captain, he would lie sleepless in bed, reviewing matches for mistakes. As a politician, the only regret he concedes is siding with former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf when he ousted Sharif in a 1999 coup. "I actually believed the man was sincere," he says. Instead of ending corruption, Khan says, grasping politicians were rehabilitated. "Ali Baba was tossed to one side, and the forty thieves were back in."

Critics, however, blame him for much more. In recent years, Khan has opposed the "war on terror". While he insists it has exacted a ruinous toll on the local economy and inflamed militancy, he is accused of being soft on the Taliban. Musharraf once called him "a beardless terrorist". At protests, Khan has joined forces with the extreme right. Another criticism is that Khan is a captain with no team. He is the only figure of national recognition in his party. The others seem to view their leader with unquestioning awe. A weak batting line up will be vulnerable against entrenched local favourites, especially on trickier, rural pitches.

The latest accusation is that the umpire is partial to him. Sharif's party holds that the powerful military establishment is discreetly manipulating events in the cricketer's favour. He bristles at the charge, and recalls how "match-fixing" smoothed Sharif's first ascent to power.

"How do they explain the polls?" he demands. "Is the ISI manipulating Pew and YouGov polls, too? This the first sign of their panic setting in. The establishment may need me, but I don't need the establishment."

The party, he concedes, is popular in the army. "According to their internal poll, we have 80 per cent support," hesays, citing a private source. But the only meeting he says he had with a senior general was over six months ago. "I went to see General Pasha about terrorism only," he says, naming the head of Pakistan's ISI spy agency. "And Pasha agreed with me, that if we disengage from this war on terror, we'll be able to control the terrorism inside Pakistan."

As Prime Minister, how would he deal with an overweening army? For over half Pakistan's history, it has ruled directly. For the rest, it has cut away at civilian power backstage.

"Look at Erdogan and Turkey," Khan says admiringly. "The army was the status quo in Turkey. What happened there was a powerful, democratic government, which has roots in the people, and moral authority, put the army in its place."

Imran Khan: A cricketing hero with his eye on political glory - Profiles, People - The Independent