Although Imran Khan appears in many shows, this interview created lots of buzz leading up to the interview as so called liberal journalists were anticipating watching it too. Najam Sethi happens to be one of the biggest critics of PTI and IK.
Watching the first part today (second part will be televised tomorrow). It seems like Najam Sethi asking all the controversial questions and IK answering very maturely. It is a good tussle.
Do watch it when you can whether you hate him or love him.
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Well balanced responses, and well rounded answers. He did give safe answers at certain points, but overall, he was effective and straightforward. What I dont understand about most anchors is why they choose to ask premature questions of PTI that should be asked of the ruling parties.
Looking forward to part 2 tomorrow.
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Watched it...his responses were good!
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My twitter TL is swamped with discussions regarding interview! Seems to have been well received!
Majority liked this issues based interview. Well done so far both from Sethi and IK
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In Response of this interview check this women’s tweets
https://twitter.com/sharmilafaruqi
This is so called MNA’s of Pee Pee Pee
How can women like Sharmila represent Pakistan
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Can you Imagine Nawaz giving interview to Hassan Nisar like this lol
Imran Khan is a true gentlemen loved his responses
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1) Imran Khan stated that he was against the present state of article 62-63. He emphasized that state should concentrate on crimes instead of sins for electoral filtration. He just couldn't find the right words to express himself in this matter.. emphasizing only on crimes related to financial embezzlement. However his idea that judiciary will use these articles by restricting to crimes only is not the solution. If after ten years we have a judge who decides to implement the law as it is written in the constitution by checking the religious morality and sin situation of the people.. there is nothing to stop him as the constitution is on his side. IK should have come out to declare his intention of altering the articles as Najam Sethi was suggesting.
2) He should have come out openly in support of security forces in their struggle against criminals who have killed 40,000 innocent Pakistanis. There was no need to justify them on the pretext of drone attacks. Najam Sethi rightly pointed out that Mr. Khan has become the biggest hurdle in forming a political consensus to support our security forces to act decisively against these criminals. Even if they use some back door negotiations with these criminals.. public posture of a national leader should be to back their own security forces who are themselves sacrificing lives on daily basis to protect us. I didn't hear any appreciation of these sacrifices from Mr. Khan..
3) It was good that Mr. Khan admitted mistakes in connection with SKMH investments on personal guarantees from a member of financial team. From his body language it was evident that the investment will never come back to SKMH accounts. It was good to see Mr. Khan giving a personal guarantee with his personal Zaman Park property.. it was a good gesture on the part of IK to pay for his mistakes in connection with these investments from donors prospective.
I am looking forward to the second part of the interview. I am afraid Najam Sethi will continue to expose IK's delusional stances on certain aspects. I hope he can make Mr. Khan realize that people respect him for his credibility.. however are not fully convinced with his intelligence. Mr. Khan must realize his analytical limitations and shun arrogance where he must stand corrected.. people like Najam Sethi can do a great job in showing him the mirror. It was good to see Khan acknowledging Najam Sethi's analytical skills..
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I didnt watch it, but I am shocked to hear (from yazdi's post) about Imran admitting to mistakes in connection with SKMH investments on personal guarantees. This is why donating to any Pakistani agency is becoming more and more difficult because you cannot trust anyone of them.
As for the interview, gotta give credit to Imran for facing Najam Sethi.
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I didnt watch it, but I am shocked to hear (from yazdi's post) about Imran admitting to mistakes in connection with SKMH investments on personal guarantees. This is why donating to any Pakistani agency is becoming more and more difficult because you cannot trust anyone of them.
As for the interview, gotta give credit to Imran for facing Najam Sethi.
I think yazdi overstated things a bit, and took them out of context, intentionally or unintentionally.
Regarding the investment, Imran said that 1) He personally has no say in the operational affairs of SKMH, so to drag him, or PTI into it is asinine. 2) Investment was made in an ex-director's company, from which they have a clear underwriting that if there is a loss, SKMH will not bear it, and the director's company will reimburse SKMH in full within 1 year. 3) In order to stress his commitment to ensuring that SKMH does not take a loss on this, he personally pledged to sell his property in order to make up this loss, IF it came to that. Otherwise, there is no indication that any misappropriation has taken place...and the company in question is worth billions...so underwriting a $3million loss is not a problem for them, which is why the investment was made in the first place under the umbrella of such a guarantee.
And finally, the money used had come from overseas donations, which were put into an endowment fund, the details of which are clearly laid out in SKMHs annual reports. I dont know why despite documented evidence, the media refuses to accept a fact for a fact. No wonder everyone talks about 'lifafas' and vested interests.
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I think yazdi overstated things a bit, and took them out of context, intentionally or unintentionally.
Regarding the investment, Imran said that 1) He personally has no say in the operational affairs of SKMH, so to drag him, or PTI into it is asinine. 2) Investment was made in an ex-director's company, from which they have a clear underwriting that if there is a loss, SKMH will not bear it, and the director's company will reimburse SKMH in full within 1 year. 3) In order to stress his commitment to ensuring that SKMH does not take a loss on this, he personally pledged to sell his property in order to make up this loss, IF it came to that. Otherwise, there is no indication that any misappropriation has taken place...and the company in question is worth billions...so underwriting a $3million loss is not a problem for them, which is why the investment was made in the first place under the umbrella of such a guarantee.
And finally, the money used had come from overseas donations, which were put into an endowment fund, the details of which are clearly laid out in SKMHs annual reports. I dont know why despite documented evidence, the media refuses to accept a fact for a fact. No wonder everyone talks about 'lifafas' and vested interests.
You are putting things out of context. Money was not returned after several years of dead investment (at least 5-6 years now). SKMH has no bank guarantee. Company belonging to one of the members of the board who were responsible for making decisions regarding the investment is in dire straits according to my information. I personally knew another member of this board who died last year (hint a very tall gentleman from Karachi).. who told IK that the investment was gone more than 2 years ago. All these board members were personally selected by Imran Khan.. so he has to take responsibility.
Investment in a company belonging to one of the board members should not have been made (conflict of interest).. specially without securing any reliable (bank guarantee).. just on a worthless piece of paper (personal guarantee)..
I don't doubt IK's intentions.. he has proven his credibility by offering to sell his Zaman Park residence to settle this investment. I have no doubt that IK will do that if the investment does not come back in one year. Mark my word today that he will have to settle this liability from his own resources eventually. IK has no experience in running institutions and has no exposure of handling formalized investments.
P.S. The whole affair exposes emotional side of IK and his limitations to make analytical decisions. (hint) IK was fully involved when this investment decision was being made despite most of the board did not want to do this investment.
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I didnt watch it, but I am shocked to hear (from yazdi's post) about Imran admitting to mistakes in connection with SKMH investments on personal guarantees. This is why donating to any Pakistani agency is becoming more and more difficult because you cannot trust anyone of them.
As for the interview, gotta give credit to Imran for facing Najam Sethi.
As Silaaj said, yazdi took them way out of context.
Imran said that he had absolutely no say in these investments and no one in their right mind can questions that given the fact that Imran has appointed a special board to look after these matters but he still said that IF it comes down to SKMH suffering loss, he would sell his property to pay for it.
Also Imran said that he has guarantee letter that he will even take to court to prove that the investment CAPITAL was never going to be lost.
He admitted that such investments should be avoided in future which yazdi took it as an admission. Also, yazdi said that Imran's body language suggested that investment will never come back to SKMH which is absolutely wrong as he said about 10 times that they have absolutely no reason to believe the investment will be lost.
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You are putting things out of context. Money was not returned after several years of dead investment (at least 5-6 years now). SKMH has no bank guarantee. Company belonging to one of the members of the board who were responsible for making decisions regarding the investment is in dire straits according to my information. I personally knew another member of this board who died last year (hint a very tall gentleman from Karachi).. who told IK that the investment was gone more than 2 years ago. All these board members were personally selected by Imran Khan.. so he has to take responsibility.
Investment in a company belonging to one of the board members should not have been made (conflict of interest).. specially without securing any reliable (bank guarantee).. just on a worthless piece of paper (personal guarantee)..
I don't doubt IK's intentions.. he has proven his credibility by offering to sell his Zaman Park residence to settle this investment. I have no doubt that IK will do that if the investment does not come back in one year. Mark my word today that he will have to settle this liability from his own resources eventually. IK has no experience in running institutions and has no exposure of handling formalized investments.
P.S. The whole affair exposes emotional side of IK and his limitations to make analytical decisions. (hint) IK was fully involved when this investment decision was being made despite most of the board did not want to do this investment.
At the end of the day, worst case is that it was bad investment which obviously should be avoided in future but don't forget that so called CLEAN politician like Khwaja Asif accused Imran Khan of investing this for personal benefits. He accused Imran of laundering zakaat money to buy investments for PERSONAL gains and may such serious allegations.
Lastly, all this information was taken from an audit report made available by SKMH online which obviously shows the transparency.
I can't know about your allegation that Imran went ahead with this investment even though the most board members were was against this investment as Imran just yesterday said that he was NOT aware of this investment initially but he was briefed about it later so either Imran is lying or your information is wrong.
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The second part was equally good and well balanced. Najam Sethi did a good job, though some questions were irrelevant and beaten to death already, and I didnt find him breaking any new ground, but overall, it was good.
One thing every anchor has always acknowledged when interviewing Imran is that he has a clean streak (as in no corruption, for the benefit for our resident Sita White experts), and that is the need of the hour. They have always questioned him on the SKMH investment issue, but have never implied that any wrongdoing took place. They have questioned him on his support to Musharraf, but have always acknowledged that that was the need of the hour.
One thing that Imran has been forced to correct in recent times is his claims of changing things in 90 days. Yes, there can be a certain impact and change within the first few months, but there are certain things that will take time. He acknowledged the possibility of having to go for a loan from the IMF. But that is a direct consequence of the blind spending spree that the current government has gone on. Noone can avoid going for an IMF loan after this quarter, as the forex reserves will dip below $10 billion after the next loan payment is made.
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It is what just you think and as being promoted with big spending of chanda money . He is not a Mr clean at all . He is just like others but little better than TuQ .
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At the end of the day, worst case is that it was bad investment which obviously should be avoided in future but don't forget that so called CLEAN politician like Khwaja Asif accused Imran Khan of investing this for personal benefits. He accused Imran of laundering zakaat money to buy investments for PERSONAL gains and may such serious allegations. Lastly, all this information was taken from an audit report made available by SKMH online which obviously shows the transparency. I can't know about your allegation that Imran went ahead with this investment even though the most board members were was against this investment as Imran just yesterday said that he was NOT aware of this investment initially but he was briefed about it later so either Imran is lying or your information is wrong.
I am not an Imran cult follower and would like to keep things as neutral as possible.. I have not seen the minutes of the investment board meetings so I will base my comments only on available disclosed information.
1) I never heard Khawaja Asif blaming IK for misappropriating Zakat money. He accused IK that the money was not invested in a proper way which was was subsequently proven.. money invested in a private company belonging to a board member (conflict of interest) on a personal guarantee without obtaining any audited accounts of this non-quoted, non-tradable company. Any accounting fool will tell you that this itself is a gross violation of public trust.
2) All the board members were personally selected by IK. I know this because I know some of these members. Mostly some large donors were invited to join the board. I personally believe that IK knew and endorsed this investment.. and IK not knowing about this investment is a total BS. This is my personal opinion and I don't have board minutes to prove it. But let's assume that he did not know about the investment. For the Chairman of any board this is not an acceptable excuse that he did not know abut board decisions. If you can't take responsibility of bad board decisions.. or you are not able to stop such decisions on time.. you don't deserve to be the Chairman. He is aspiring to become the Prime Minister of the country. Tomorrow he will shift all the blame of any mis appropriation on his sub ordinates and try to act like an angel. This is a very dangerous tendency.
3) The investment is a bad investment.. money is stuck for more than 5 years. In spite of all the public debate for last one year the personal guarantee could not be honored. Now IK needs one more year to execute the personal guarantee.. He plans to go in litigation.. not knowing that there are more than 100,000 cases lying in Dubai courts which are not being heard on default by property developers.. nothing will happen to these cases as the money is already lost in speculation. The chances of getting this personal guarantee en cashed are very slim. For all practical reasons and in the opinion of the auditors this money is lost due to the stupidity of SKMH management-board of management-Imran Khan.
4) I appreciated the gesture of Imran Khan that he is personally guaranteeing this amount with his personal assets. I don't suspect Imran Khan's intentions and I believe he will keep his promise. I also believe that his intention of investing the SKMH funds in property speculation in dubai were to gain maximum benefits for the institution. But it does not absolve SKMH management and particularly the Chairman for not being able to stop this transaction which was made in clear violations of accepted principals of trust.. without taking in to account the gross conflict of interest which has happened with this transaction.
Doesn't matter if Imran is an angel and I am a pathetic liar.. Gross irregularity has happened in SKMH where a huge investment was made despite the conflict of interest. The responsibility of this gross irregularity lies with the Chairman of the Board SKMH..
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It is what just you think and as being promoted with big spending of chanda money . He is not a Mr clean at all . He is just like others but little better than TuQ .
There is no proof of his financial wrong doing.. Unlike Mr. Zardari who has 1.8 Billion dollars proven bank accounts without any proof of his income which enabled him to amass such a big fortune.. and now he is hiding behind the Presidential Immunity hoping that these cases will get time barred.. remember the ten year requirement in Swiss law.
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There is no proof of his financial wrong doing.. Unlike Mr. Zardari who has 1.8 Billion dollars proven bank accounts without any proof of his income which enabled him to amass such a big fortune.. and now he is hiding behind the Presidential Immunity hoping that these cases will get time barred.. remember the ten year requirement in Swiss law.
You mixed millions with billions , I don't want to clarify for him but the money has not been proved as corruption money and all Pakistan 'bigs' have much more but never been exposed .
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You mixed millions with billions , I don't want to clarify for him but the money has not been proved as corruption money and all Pakistan 'bigs' have much more but never been exposed .
He was convicted both in Pakistan and in Switzerland. The US senate used his financial history as a case study in a money laundering report targeting Citibank. He is corrupt to the bone....and his numbers are in the billions with a B.
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You mixed millions with billions , I don't want to clarify for him but the money has not been proved as corruption money and all Pakistan 'bigs' have much more but never been exposed .
I don't have time for this fazool behas.. I can not imagine someone justifying a crook just because some "bigs" are also crooks. Zardari possesses assets which can not be justified with his income statements over the years.. he can not be investigated because of his Presidential immunity. It is suspected that he accumulated this fortune from corruption..
Tell me one word in the above statement which is not a fact..
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I don't have time for this fazool behas.. I can not imagine someone justifying a crook just because some "bigs" are also crooks. Zardari possesses assets which can not be justified with his income statements over the years.. he can not be investigated because of his Presidential immunity. It is suspected that he accumulated this fortune from corruption.. Tell me one word in the above statement which is not a fact..
Living away from Pakistan and looking only at politicians is the basic issue . Corruption is the part and partial of our system .Chanda is a big system pf corruption also .