Re: lets say …just for the sake argument
PD, My honest assessment of IK.
I grew up in Pakistan in the 80s watching and admiring people like Imran, Jahangir, Zaheer, Miandad, Hassan Sardar, Nazia & Zoheb, Moin Akhtar, Haseena Moin, Fifty Fifty, Ankahi, Tanhaiyan blah blah. Most people who support IK support him because he is a cricket hero and because they regard him as being more honest & straight forward than the rest.
However he is not politically savvy. It is partly arrogance. If he takes a position on something then he would rigidly defend it no matter how flawed or wrong his stance maybe. I have never understood IK’s:
Flawed TTP stance. Even if there are many foreigners (Uzbeks, Chechens etc.) among them and even if many criminals and drug mafia now call themselves Taliban, there is no such thing as good taliban or bad taliban. They are all the same; bloody criminals. They are all challenging the writ of the state.
We as a people have to unite against this menace regardless of party affiliation and say enough is enough.
Association with JI. I could never support a party whose founder (Maudoodi) had such toxic views about Jinnah and creation of Pakistan. Two of my cousins witnessed first hand jamati badmaashi on university campus (UET, Lahore) in the 80s! Has IK forgotten all about how the jamati goons mishandled him?
I want IK to succeed but I am afraid he keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. His peace mantra looks so out of place now. He needs to let go of it. He has once again failed to read the public mood, the majority of whom now seem to be in favour of eliminating TTP monster once and for all. NS on the other hand is deliberating. Jazabati firebrand people like Shireen mazari will take this party down the drain. Like Zaid Hamid she is always pandering to conspiracy theories! Sadly some might only remember him for his apologetic tendencies towards extremism.
i agree GA…well said especially this…
“We as a people have to unite against this menace regardless of party affiliation and say enough is enough”
and Mazari is such a waste…
I have said this a year ago on this forum…and i repeat it…IK is on the wrong side of the history on Taliban issue and his politics will finish because of his wrong stand on this issue, as I see it…and it makes me sad..not too long i was a hardcore supporter of this guy and was standing right next to him with a great pride when he visited my busienss shcool in the NYC…