Re: JI to PTI – ‘Good looking Jamaat-e-Islami’
Ofcourse PTI is not the same party as it was. Yes, there are indications that establishment is supporting PTI. Can you blame them? Can you not look at what has the government been up to?
It is kind of funny that no body gave Imran a chance as long as he stood on sidelines, talking about reforms in Pakistan. I think he realized that you cannot influence the system without getting your hands dirty.
My impression of what you said is that the party changed form good-to-bad. Why is it that people did not support him before if it was a ‘good’ party at that time? My opinion is that the system is built in a way that you cannot make an impression unless you play the ‘game’ and IK realized that. Could Zulfikar Bhutto or Nawaz Sharif be anywhere in political arena without establishment support? I don’t think so. Even now you see so-called anti-establishment party PPP in bed with PML(Q).
As long as the romance with JI is concerned, the ideas have been very similar between both parties. Both ride on anti-corruption and anti-american sentiment. JI has huge public support and in a democratic system, you cannot really write them off as crazy mullahs and such.