as well as shrewdness. Look how they immediately took resignation from Mushahidullah. PTI was expecting that nothing of sort will happen on allegations and demanded to sack Mushahidullah. PML-N seems already anticipated it and looks as if MSuhahid resignation was ready..They are playing their cards well. Their policies specially policies for electricity is not good. ( nundi pur prject , solar power ) they are having a luxury of petrol prices sooo low for very long time which any of past govt. cud not have dreamed about. This automatically increasing our foreign reserves.
Pti should have been crying hoarse about all the policies which were bad, this is the job of opposition to raise issues of public importance. In the absence of an active opposition pmln is having a field day. Without any noise by opposition it seems as if everything’s fine.
Perception is everything, the loadshedding has reduced, terrorism has reduced, and pmln has delivered some mega projects for their constituents. No other province is coming close to delivery. As far as this constituency is concerned a single point raised by pmln would have tilted the balance in their favour. Pti believes in destructive politics, where as pmln can provide them with a motorway (they have metros to their credit, their credibility has increased where as IK’s credibility has nose dived thanks to his countless uturns). pmlns image is coming across as a party which can deal and solve people’s problems. Where as Pti, less said the better.
We may make fun of pmln’s motorways and metros but these projects do sway public opinion.
if Pti is able to make the local government system work, that would be their selling point in the next elections otherwise they’ll be routed.
Problem with PTI and its leadership is same what amateur cricket fans of Pakistan team have…both assume they cannot loose…and if they somehow lost a conquest then it is not because of they were wrong…it is because someone else’s decision… Rigging etc…
Just look at the tweet of the Reham khan’s son, arrogance and plain arrogance…ppp leadership may give more weight to it’s hari voters in Sindh…pti simply call them jahil…whoever doesnt agree or vote for them is jahil, jiyala, noora, lifafa or paid or conspiracy maker…be it Javed Hashmi or Justice wajihudin..
I was sitting with some colleagues and were discussing few (long term) projects…and then this issue was brought in consideration…if by any chance…PTI manage to win 2018 election in Punjab, who will be its CM? Aleem Khan? Qureshi? Or any one nominated by Tareen…
This risk was enough and few of them who have influence on business and traders community clearly said…we’ll do whatever possible to make sure that PTI shall never make their govt in Punjab…
Btw was Aleem Khan was fired by PMLn on corruption and/or land grabbing charges???
If you propagate a new Pakistan where there will be NO family politics (and your wife is campaigning in the constituency) and that you’ll get rid of the two dynasties ruling the country (and on your left and right the two dynasties ruling haripur for the past 50 years are present) your slogans loose their meaning.
I am sorry, it is actually quite surprising to that no one is talking about how pathetically and disgustingly PMLN supporters celebrated NA19 when they just lost a fine minister in a cowardly terrorist attack? Had PTI supporters done that - the pseudo liberal brigade and exclusively anti PTI moral police would have tear the place down. This is the hypocrisy of all arm chair PTI critics.
Out of respect, PTI decided not to field a candidate from Col. Shuja’s constituency, on the other hand Nooras were partying hard over the fact they won a halqa in PTI’s province when in Punjab people were reading Col. Shuja’s funeral. What a shamelessly sad irony.
I know Reham is pretty to look at, and some Pakistani uncles and boys probably have a crush on her, but I am glad PTI had lost. Whether she had a role to play or not in the actual defeat is besides the point, the point is that had PTI won, it would have set a very bad precedent, and Reham would have become the face of all PTI’s political campaigns, and that should not be encouraged. The whole idea of family members campaigning and doing political opposition is a slippery slope. Things are different in General Elections, potential First Ladies are given media spotlight, but in the intern period, she simply should not be allowed to talk so excessively (and often childishly) from PTI’s political platform. The party existed, and was doing just fine way before she knew there’s a man and a party called Imran Khan & PTI.
Your posts is what I call classic wrist slitting. According to you, PTI’s ‘slogans’ lost meaning 6 months into to power, they weren’t performing yet two years later, they won the LG elections. Despite the mismanagement and accusations of rigging, it performed even better in LG re-elections. So effectively, PTI has been selected thrice in province where claim they are not performing! Pakhtoons are not stupid, they don’t give any party second chance, let alone a third. In regards to Harpur, didn’t PTI win LG votes there? Yes, they lost the NA seat because they didn’t do their homework properly, and they thought they could get away with some double standards thrown in the mix. PTI need such wake up calls every now and then to stay on its toes, and feel some pressure to balance things out. I wanted PTI to lose this seat, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. Sometimes you just have to be cruel to be kind.
I think for your own sake, go through the legislative and institution building work PTI has done in province, and then have a debate on performance. What are your thoughts on historic Whistleblower protection law KPK government is about to pass in their assembly?
So much for Khattak hating, he’s the only experienced administrator in PTI ranks who knows ground realities of KPK. Yes he hates giving TV interviews, unlike in Punjab, KPK Gov does not have massive billboards of project and policy ads with Khattak’s face all over it, he himself feels no shame in admitting that he’s a CM KPK, not a Mayor of Peshawar unlike Shahbaz Sharif. He may not the desired young, dynamic and full personality type CM, but he’s equally not as bad as his critics paint him.
All PTI leadership is usually Punjab based with very little know how knowledge of KPK, and it is largely due to Khattak’s local expertise and administrating experience that PTI had managed to survive a coalition as a first time rookie government. Apart from Khattak, KPK cabinet is largely made up of new, inexperienced and young faces and in few years time, I definitely see KPK cabinet producing the the next dynamic CM groomed and trained from within.
Does this mean she’ll not call meeting of officials from KPK govt? She’ll not give TV interviews and her statements on other partys and events…and shall do what husband of Faryal Talpur and wife of Nawaz Sharif and many wives of Shahbaz Sharif does???