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I fell down too in the crowd 
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Wow. Even though the speech was a bit below expectations, but Imran Khan brought an unexpected number of people to Minar-e-Pakistan. Congratulations. Sharif brother's are cornered.
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**Imran Khan’s ‘tsunami’ sweeps Lahore
****LAHORE: **The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) took out a large rally at the Minar-e-Pakistan ground in Lahore on Sunday. More than 100,000 supporters gathered as a show of strength in what is traditionally the PML-N stronghold.
PTI chief Imran Khan warned politicians to declare their assets or his party would launch a civil disobedience movement against them.
Speaking on issues plaguing the country, Khan said that his party would stand with minorities and work for the rights of women.
He said PTI would also give the Baloch their rights and “not colonise them.”
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lol 
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As PTI sets stage, PML-N watches with bated breath
By Abdul Manan / Zia Khan
Published: October 30, 2011
**ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: ****The air in Lahore is thick with anticipation.
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As caravans bound for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) October 30 rally approach the city from across the province, the city’s traditional political leadership, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), watches with bated breath.
**The rising prominence of PTI, and particularly its chief Imran Khan, has the PML-N ‘deeply worried,’ leading senior party leaders to devise a new campaign to counter its new rival in urban Punjab.
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Top PML-N officials said the party had been closely monitoring Imran’s political moves, and public response to them, in recent months, and concluded that there was definitely a need to take it seriously.
Imran, whose party has been making significant inroads as a ‘street power’ but has yet to do well in elections, is being seen by observers as at least a ‘game changer’ in coming parliamentary polls, especially in Punjab’s urban areas.
At least 40% of electoral constituencies in Punjab are urban, according to rough estimates based on the 1998 census, and have historically served as the powerhouse for PML-N, save the 2002 general elections when General Musharraf-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) won a landslide victory.
Potent challenge
Imran’s PTI now serves as the most potent challenge to PML-N’s conventional vote-bank, observers say.
PTI would field more than 200 candidates across Pakistan for the National Assembly seats in the 2013 general elections, said the party’s spokesperson.
“Our aim is to see Imran Khan as the next prime minister of Pakistan,” said PTI’s information secretary Omar Sarfaraz Cheema. This will be highest number of candidate fielded by the PTI in an election.
The enthusiasm among the rank and file of PTI has not gone unnoticed.
“We are politicians and we keep an eye on a person or a group who can harm us even in a single constituency,” said PML-N spokesperson Senator Mushahidullah Khan when asked if his party was taking Imran’s PTI seriously.
He hastened to add, though, that his party’s leadership was not worried by Imran’s activities.“We are definitely not panicking as far as Imran is concerned. You’ve seen what happened to his candidates in by-elections in Rawalpindi last year, and recently in Sahiwal,” the senator said.
Keeping a watch
Not all PML-N leaders appear to be so dismissive though.
**At least two senior party members said that PTI’s activities had been part of every PML-N meeting in recent months and all leaders, including Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif, were taking it seriously.
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“It is wrong to say that we are either unconcerned or not worried about the rise of Imran,” said one of the leaders on condition of anonymity. “In politics, you can never sit back and relax. Things change overnight,” the official added.
Targeting the youth
In its effort to plug in all loopholes in campaign strategy that rivals, especially Imran’s PTI, could take advantage of, PML-N is working on a policy exclusively aimed at reaching out to the youth.
“We will go out to tell them what Nawaz Sharif, and his two stints in power, have given to Pakistan,” PML-N’s deputy information secretary Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan said.
“We will tell them that the motorway they travel on was not always there … these modern airports in Lahore and Karachi, somebody had the vision to build all these things,” Khurram said.
“The youth itself must realise that serving a country is one thing and raising hollow slogans is another,” he added, in an apparent rebuke of Imran’s anti-America rhetoric, especially his opposition to drone strikes.
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Overrated?**
Political analysts, however, are unsure about Imran’s capabilities of posing any serious challenge to the PML-N.
“I will say he is overrated … and supported by those who want to undermine genuine political forces,” said Harris Khaliq, a political commentator.
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“Who is with him? Only affluent urban middle class elite … but the problem is that they don’t understand politics from inside-out,” Khaliq said, adding that he did not see any major victory for Imran in the coming elections.
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**Stage set in Lahore
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With 45,000 chairs set up under the shadow of Minar-e-Pakistan, the stage is set for PTI’s public gathering scheduled to be held on Sunday (today). Party officials are expecting a gathering of around 100,000 supporters and workers, majority of them from Lahore.
The party had assigned a target of 15,000 supporters from Southern Punjab – Multan, Bahawalpur and DG Khan – besides a large number from Faisalabad and Gujranwala.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 30[SUP]th[/SUP], 2011.
Re: Battle for Lahore.
Wow. Even though the speech was a bit below expectations, but Imran Khan brought an unexpected number of people to Minar-e-Pakistan. Congratulations. Sharif brother's are cornered.
What did u expected BTW
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When crowd sang along Strings ‘main tu dekhoon ga’!, that was such a heart touching moment. :k:
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Shehzad Roy was amazing too :k:
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To be honest, did not expect a crowd like this to come out. Let's see if he can maintain this momentum and if he does than Sharif Brother's era is over for good.
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Happy now ?
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I think Pasha sahib is may have been miffed by IK's alleged wig again :p
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I think Pasha sahib is may have been miffed by IK's alleged wig again :p
Nope, he will be too busy trying to come up with a fake facebook/ MySpace / Friendster / hi-5/ google+ account to befriend a teenager in California to find her pics to put on gs and others forums to prove his loyalty to ppp.
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Nope, he will be too busy trying to come up with a fake facebook/ MySpace / Friendster / hi-5/ google+ account to befriend a teenager in California to find her pics to put on gs and others forums to prove his loyalty to ppp.
This is very bad,If you like or not .I try to post all truth.
This is not your fault .It is our historical record.
We could not produce any gentleman for this battle .
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So, any new pics of Tyrian khan ? ;)
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jane bhi di yaron:cool:
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I have posted only two pics of Dukhtar e Pakistan in last one year.
I knew she can come any time to lead the nation like Jamima.
She is the crown princess of Lahore.
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To be honest, did not expect a crowd like this to come out. Let's see if he can maintain this momentum and if he does than Sharif Brother's era is over for good.
convert it in to votes dude , people here are getting over optimistic , voters are much much divided into categories, groups and class . real voting patterns are different in provinces . strong party organisations only win large no.of seats . for the time being he is getting large scale support , let him manage it efficiently and encash and turn it into real votes .
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Above was the sitting arrangement for yesterday’s show of IK…
10,000 + seat with rows having 4 feets gap between them…
10,000 people on seats, 20,000 standing… at most there were 30,000 people from all over Pakistan, being active in Lahore in 90s when political activities ( Jalsas and rallys) were norms ( because of Benazir and Qazi Hussain Ahmed) this jalsa would have been considered a failure. But special thanks to Pervaiz Musharaf who got us in a unnecessary war and have created an environment of fear and terrorism, people fear to take part in these activities…
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convert it in to votes dude , people here are getting over optimistic , voters are much much divided into categories, groups and class . real voting patterns are different in provinces . strong party organisations only win large no.of seats . for the time being he is getting large scale support , let him manage it efficiently and encash and turn it into real votes .
The votes registered in a single constituency of Lahore is ( at an average) 250,000.... one need to bag at least 80K+ votes to win single seat from Lahore...
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The votes registered in a single constituency of Lahore is ( at an average) 250,000.... one need to bag at least 80K+ votes to win single seat from Lahore...
yes reality is quite different what you are seeing in front of you as far as elections and politics is concerned . but imran khan's party is gaining ground that much is visible.
on a lighter note " voters can't be trusted " voters are quite elusive now a days this is my personal experience .