A change of heart in the making

[Jolie]

Re: A change of heart in the making

@kakaballi

What you say is compatible with what I said.

Have an internal election in PTI, and if people want SMQ’s son to contest elections in Multan, that’s fair enough. **Right now, he is contesting elections because he is SMQ’s son. **

If people vote feudals, then they would also vote feudals in internal elections. That way at least we have some transparency and people would not be able to point fingers.

Bhutto’s was himself a feudal lord. He spent more than a decade in the corridors of power including holding ministerial positions under a dictator before launching his party. The comparison is not valid.

As per Dawn, this is an ‘unconfirmed’ report (a rumour in other words). I’ll wait till he’s actually given a ticket. Similar brouhaha and knee jerk reaction was induced by the media over Hashmi’s so called dismissal from the party. I remember all the writs slitting that went over that news. They all made us believe that PTI is finished, until poor old Hashmi gave countless statement to the media to confirm that he’s still the president of the party, and can only be kicked out by the party.

As with Shah Mehmood Quershi looking to make stride in interior Sindh under PTI’s banner, I for one have absolutely no problem with that. Imran can spend another 20 years of campaigning in politics, and chances are neither him nor likes of Asad Umar will manage to exert any influence in interior Sindh or Balochistan on their own. They would need the help of local players to rise up and spread their message.

Despite all the unwanted criticism, SMQ face, many people - who are not fashionably cynics - are willing to at least acknowledge that he’s really coming out of his shell. Leaving his pompous privileges of Foreign Minister and senior parliamentarian behind, he’s on the roads in Karachi and campaigning like a party worker. People who know SMQ can tell you that his current role is a massive political downgrade for him.