Re: Imran to file case against Altaf! (merged)
on the one hand you are faulting him for calculating his approach as a politician, on the other you are saying if he does this and this he would get a lot of support.
I fault his approach, the way it is now, with selective campaigns and so on. Of course the this and that are things I think he should do to his approach to correct his approach and gather the lost or new support,
to be realistic, and you are free to disagree with me here, I do not think Imran can do anything against Benazir, Nawaz, Musharraf on his own. Even Altaf is a longshot. He has 1 seat in the NA, and thats an increase from the time when he was actually fighting everyone.
I agree 100%
When he was fighting everyone he got absolutely crushed, he didnt even get any votes for himself. And the crimes of Benazir and Nawaz were fresh in everyones minds at that time.
Actually at that time (c1996) ppl only had BB's crimes fresh in their minds and Nawaz was supposedly the heaven sent messiah. And Nawaz himself created huge issues for Imran.
I don't think he was ever really fighting everyone. Even 4 weeks before the 2002 elections, the public loved this slogan;
Awam ki hai ek hi rai
Musharraf o Imran hi aaye
He had begun drifting away from Gen Mush after the referendum as he says.
But never mind all that. Even if he were fighting all with sincerity, the various manipulations that crushed him in the 1996 elections and the Nawaz and JI campaigns against him calling him a Jew, defaming him over personal life and so on since 1995 onwards till 2002, shouldn't have mattered to him at all. Because it didn't matter to his supporters, it didn't matter to me then or until few years ago, I was his big supporter. Those understanding his wavelength didn't care if he got a seat or not, they believed him and were with him because they trusted him as a hero, with a clean record, an option with maximum hope and vision then, who was a force to watch and be with regardless of a seat in parliament.
Even this combined opposition who have a much wider support than Imran can ever hope to garner by himself have a very hard time making an impact against an entrenched dictator like Musharraf. If Imran wants to be a part of that cause, and there is no worthier cause at the moment in Pakistan than fighting against the crooks who are shackling the country, he has to keep the focus on Musharraf and co. Yes there are other crooks but the smart thing to do is to fight the bad guy who matters the most.
On the other hand, a fragmented opposition that fights amongst itself will only strengthen the dictator and dilute the focus from those who should get it the most.
But the combined opposition is a hoax; they're not combined in any ideology except Musharraf's ouster, there will be no combination of any sort post Musharraf and Imran will be the first one pushed to the bottom of the pile on day1. So Imran isn't really gaining solid from this. The opposition, combined or individual, also lacks any planning in policies, Pakistan's internal and external issues and their tackling post Mussharraf. Not to say the "sar mundate hi oley" that will fall after Mush's ouster and the floodgates of issues (and yes these issues are of unique and volatile nature like never before in history; OBL, Taleban, US wars on terror, suicide attacks, a diff stance on Kashmir and so on) that will open requires so much planning and thought which none care for being directionless or rather uni-directional in the ideology to ouster Musharraf and I beg to raise concerns over this ideology to start with. I don't think he's the bad guy, nor the biggest bad guy, neither the bad guy whose ouster will open the doors of heaven upon Pakistan and eliminate all other bad guys who shackle, shackled or will shackle Pakistan.