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Ladies and gentlemen, the 7th edition of **Unplugged With Guppies **has Monk on the hot seat. Monkis a senior member of GS and is a keen observer of politics.
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Unplugged With Monk
1: What is your name?
Monk
**2: Where do you hail from and where do you reside? Do you have dual nationality?
**Norht America/NO
**3: What is your educational and professional background?
**Economics/open source
**4: What is your political orientation?
**Ex-ML, PTI now
5: Which political party do you support and why? Please explain the reasons in case if you do not support any party?
PTI, This party have potential to fix thing on many levels, not just Govt machinery.
**6: Have you ever read complete manifesto of your party? Does it matter to you at all?
**NO and NO
**7: Do you believe that your party has a good team to run the country and tackle issues like governance, corruption, loadshedding, security?
**They will learn as responsibility put on them. They look into right direction for inspiration.
**8: Has your party ever been in power in the Centre or in provinces? If yes, how did it perform?
**NO
**9: Major achievement and major failure of the present government?
**Our elders were scared to death of PPP coming into power, after this PPP Govt I know why.
**10: In your opinion, what are the top-most plus and top-most minus points of your party?
**Honest driven to learn and to work/ Lack maturity on lower level.
**11: How different the upcoming general elections could be from the 2008 general elections?
**It will bring the change, dark forces to people.
**12: What do you think of presidential form of government?
**No idea.
**13: Your take on judicial activism?
**In a broken system who ever do bare minimum stands out like any thing. Be it judiciary, army, cricket team or media.
**14: Do you think Army is still active in politics as we speak?
**NO, they are finally ready to give up.
** 15: How should Pakistan act on American demands on Haqqani Network and military operations in North Waziristan?
**The way IK thinks.
**16: How do you see the reopening of Nato supply routes?
Event was not closing/opening the the supply, it was masses dancing around the whole issue.
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17: Do you think that some key ministries should be managed only by technocrats, or it must be an elected representative of people to head any department?
Its good to have people who know stuff and can think.
**18: To govern a vast country of over 180 million, the bigger the cabinet, the better?
**No idea.
**19: Who is your favourite politician outside your favourite political party?
**Fatima Bhuto(very pretty)
** 20: What is your favorite current affairs show (national or international)?
**I guess Talat Husains’
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Thank you Monk for your time 
[note]Members are welcome to pose further questions to Monk or debate any part of his interview. Please follow interview etiquettes while you interact with the interviewee. Thank you.[/note]
in monk ishtyle. political and non-political. 
Btw, did you tell him to answer all qs in one sentence or less? 
