Imran Khan sees people's revolution looming

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Re: Imran Khan sees people’s revolution looming

@samb

good for him. always admired him for all his charity work. how can you be a Pakistani and not love him for his philanthropy and all that he’s done for the country.

No…not good for him…good for us. He has done what we all should have banded together to do long ago…good for the nation…good for the needy…good for millions of people that would otherwise have received no treatment.

I’m sure that Imran will benefit from his own good deeds…but likely not until after the day of judgement.

@samb

so, do you think this was the right time for him to be seeking new members for his party? isn’t that the kind of thing that Zardari was being blasted for? making a trip for his own political gains?

was it the right time for him to be signing up new members or was it the right time for him to drop the political nonsense and just raise funds? I mean after all he is much better than Zardari as a person, is he not. so, he should be held to a higher standard, no?

yes…I do believe that it was the right time for him to be seeking membership…absolutely…he was killing three birds with one stone…raising funds for flood victims, raising funds for SKMH and campaigning. I would have been disgusted if he spent money travelling the world ONLY to collect funds.

and exactly what political nonsense are you referring to? be specific…

I am not here discussing who is the better person rather I am questioning who is the better leader for the nation.

@samb

Zardari does hold office. but he is not the chief executive. he is the titular head.

typical…when there is no reply then let’s resort to splitting hairs shall we?
let’s put aside the nomenclature and deal with what the world understands…for all intents and purposes Zardari is the head of state.

@samb

anyway, Imran touts himself as a leader on the national level. all national leaders are required to play a role in a crisis like this. Nawaz Sharif was there, Shahbaz Sharif was there, ANP leadership was active, PPP leadership was there bar Zardari, heck even PML-F leaders were in there constituencies.

why wasn’t Imran? he is a leader right? shouldn’t he have been among his people? oh I see… he was raising funds for the victims.

but Zardari also claims that he was seeking funds from other states for the relief effort. so, not much of a difference between Zardari and Imran as far as I can see.

Are you suggesting that Imran’s party was unrepresented in relief efforts?
And others have answered you well with respect to who holds more responsibility in the org structure so I’m not going to repeat the same material.

@samb

at times, people must rise about petty political gains and think on a higher plane. if Imran can’t do that, then he has no business going around with the holier than thou attitude.

Imran’s social work has taken him to a level above and beyond those that Zardari or NS can ever hope to achieve so let’s not even open the giant pandora’s box of rising above.

As far as “petty political gains” is concerned, you may consider them to be petty but those that look for transparency, honesty and justice don’t agree. And since we touched on “petty” what do you think of Zardari’s move to change his son’s last name to Bhutto? Perhaps that can be discussed in another thread.

@samb

Imran has made a life out of not answering questions he does not want to answer. what compelled him to answer these politically loaded and leading questions this time that always lead to the same kind of answers?

and I thought Imran was the leader here? if someone is asking an inappropriate question given the time and the context of the situation we’re in, common sense would demand that Imran excuse himself from making political statements and ask his followers to put the political agenda on the backburner for a while while we push together as a nation for the solution to this crisis.

Please make up your mind…either you like him to avoid questions or you don’t. Per your own ideology you can’t blast the man for doing one thing and then blast him again if he decides to do the other. This method doesn’t make for a very credible impression.

I for one believe that a leader who will address the questions is to be trusted more than one that will shut down channels to protect his image.

Btw…you sure do use a lot of words to say the same stuff. There really is no need.