Re: Why Imran Khan?
Using same logic,** why not go for PML-N?**
so Nawaz Sharif can get himself declared as "Ameerul Momineen" as first stage then "Ameerul Momineen for life" as next?
Re: Why Imran Khan?
so Nawaz Sharif can get himself declared as "Ameerul Momineen" as first stage then "Ameerul Momineen for life" as next?
you know IK is no different, he have "Me GOOD and all BAD" attitude... so again where is the difference... one is up for the title of Ameer ul Momineen and other is up for i am the ONLY GOOD thing... or Messiah as portray by his followers....
Re: Why Imran Khan?
If choice is given between IK and NS, I will vote for NS. Whatever his draw backs, he is much superior in politics, simple and straight in his approach or atleast tries to be fair. IK on the otherhand with no agenda, no foreign policy, no clear cut approach to deal military and war on terror, no economic policies, dealing Baluchistan crisis etc. He is most probably a b-team for military supported by ISI. He only condemns America for drone attacks but forgets that this is being done with the approval of army supporting war on terror. Sirf Zardari ko galyan dene se votes nahin milange. yeh baat usko aor uske supporters ko achchi tarah se samajh leni chahiay.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
There is nobody better then Imran Khan...He is least crook out of them all..
Re: Why Imran Khan?
How do you know that? He regreted for recent cricket crooks who were sent to jail, jinon ne mulk ke saath ghadari ki. From these sentiments he can not be termed as honest. yeh chuppa howa adakaar hay. Zardari ki corruption to isse nazar aati hay magar in logon ko jo na siraf corrupt hain balke mulk ke saath dhoka kya hay, aansoo in ke leay kyon nikal rahay hain, kyon?
http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/03/i-always-felt-sorry-for-amir-imran-khan.html
**“I always felt sorry for Amir”
**SHARJAH: Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan on Thursday said he was pained to hear the news of Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir being jailed for fixing parts of a Test match against England.
Pakistan former Test captain Butt, 27, received 30 months, fast bowler Asif, 28, received one year in jail and 19-year-old Amir was jailed for six months.
Butt and Asif were found guilty on Tuesday of deliberately bowling three no-balls during the Lord’s Test in August 2010 as part of a “spot-fixing” betting scam uncovered by Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World.
Amir and players’s agent Mazhar Majeed, sent down for 32 months, had already pleaded guilty to involvement in the scam.
Khan said it was painful to listen to the news.
“It is painful to listen (to) the news as a former Pakistan cricketer and I feel really sorry for their families,” Khan, who was on a political meeting here, told AFP.“
In a way I also feel sorry for these cricketers because they are from Pakistan where there are massive corruption cases against president (Asif Zardari) and they must have thought crime pays,” said Khan, who now heads his political party — Tehrik-e-Insaaf (Movement for Justice).
Khan said the punishments are a wake-up call for Pakistan cricket.
Khan criticised the previous cricket boards for sweeping the matter under the carpet.
Khan said he always felt sorry for Amir.
“I always felt sorry for Amir,” said Khan, himself a great fast bowler.
“He may have been influenced by the atmosphere around him, secondly he was the best young fast bowler and for the fact that he came out with a confession,” said Khan.
**Another former captain Ramiz Raja said he has no sympathy for the players.
“I have no sympathy, I have always maintined that in a team when the rest of the guys are fighting to win a game and two or three are fighting against it, trying to sell their souls to the devil, they cannot be afforded any sympathy,” said Raja.
“They hurt Pakistan cricket, their fans and even though it may sound rough to some of the fans but justice has been done and they deserved the punishement they got.”
Raja said the verdict will serve Pakistan cricket well.
“Even though it’s a sad situation for their families, justice has been done. You need to rid such elements from the game and it’s good for Pakistan cricket.
“Cricket needs good ambassadors and passionate cricketers who can be good ambassadors, who can serve their country honourably and unfortunately these three were on a diffrerent track,” said Raja.
Former coach Waqar Younis, in charge of the team during the England tour when the case surfaced, termed it “ugly.”
“I was part of the team when the whole episode took place. It was an ugly side of cricket. I don’t know much about the criminal law in England but cricketers being sentenced to jail is sad for cricket and bad for Pakistan,” Waqar told AFP.
“Unfortunately it has happened now and I pray the whole episode should end and clear the Pakistan team to start afresh.”
Waqar said he could never think of the three players being involved.
“I could not even think of any of these guys being involved when the whole thing was taking place. If I knew then things could have been managed differently and the board could have got involved and unfortunately it ends this way and they have to suffer.”**
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Well I have also felt sorry for Amir as he was the youngest of them all , as far as being corrupted is concerned every one has the role model sitting in the presidency so how can you stop the menace
Re: Why Imran Khan?
you know IK is no different, he have "Me GOOD and all BAD" attitude... so again where is the difference... .......
that's what i have been saying. If there is no difference, why does it matter whom i vote for?
Re: Why Imran Khan?
It’s quite simples. Nawaz and Zardari are Billionaires or almost there. They’re the corrupt kingpins.
Most of what you wrote is meaningless.
Also, Atleast Imran Khan has graduated from a credible univesity. I don’t think Nawaz and Zardari even went to University.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/04/change-we-khan.html
Change we KhanCyril Almeida | Opinion | (16 hours ago) Today](http://www.paklinks.com/2011/11/04)
**THE good thing about the business of opinion is you get another shot every week.
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**“The scene in Lahore may suggest otherwise, but Sharif’s got bigger issues than Taliban Khan to mull over,” were the last words in this space last week, 48 hours before IK triggered a political earthquake in Lahore.
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Whether the earthquake will lead to a voter tsunami across Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and maybe even other parts of Pakistan will be the topic du jour for months. But let’s pause for a bit.
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How did Khan pull off this most spectacular of successes?
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Frankly, even within the PTI there were murmurs of concern in the run-up to Lahore. Minto Park is a vast space, big enough to swallow a crowd of twenty or thirty thousand.
Khan was popular, sure, but friends and supporters were worried he had overreached. A big crowd dwarfed by its surroundings could have slowed down or even reversed the momentum Khan had patiently built up.
Did Khan know something others in his party didn’t? Probably not. He made a high-stakes bet and won big. Of such gumption is made political success.
Khan will of course want more now. But whether or not he goes on to revitalise Pakistan, Khan has already planted his flag in a changed Pakistan. And at least two of those changes helped propel Khan to historic success at Minar-i-Pakistan.
**The first is the political reawakening of the country’s educated and professional classes, dormant for the last three decades. It began with the lawyers’ movement in 2007, when ordinary Pakistanis joined the peaceful call to resistance by Aitzaz Ahsan (remember him?) and his quirky supporting cast of lawyers.
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Those ordinary folks weren’t bothered by Left or Right, they weren’t driven by revolutionary zeal, they weren’t itching to transform Pakistan overnight. They were simply fed up.
**Musharraf had ascended to power promising change; he ended up indistinguishable from the politicians he had heaped so much scorn on. When he tried to sabotage institutions and the constitution to prolong his stay, the educated public, the salaried class and the urban middle-class had enough.
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**In Chief Justice Iftikhar they found a symbol to rally behind, in Aitzaz they found a champion of all that was good and right to follow. The reawakening had begun.
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**It didn’t matter that the judiciary isn’t the vehicle to transform a dysfunctional polity. The previously apolitical wanted to register their protest against the manner in which the country was being run and they had found their vehicle. In vocalising their disillusionment they swelled the numbers of the politically active and partisan set who were out to replace Musharraf with their own favourites.
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**Fast forward to Khan and the Minar and the educated and professional classes were there to vent again. This time too they aren’t bothered by Left or Right, they aren’t worried about parliamentary math, they aren’t obsessing over the nuts and bolts of policy.
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**The educated folks and the professionals are simply fed up with the mess they’re seeing around them and the depressing and stale menu of existing choices: AZ and his ribald bunch of misfits; the Sharifs with their principled rhetoric but autocratic style of doing things; Kayani and his duplicitous generals.
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Enter Khan, his passion and probity appealing to the values the hardworking, upright, wanting-a-fair-shake educated and professional classes care about.
**Without them Khan would have still assembled thousands of party workers and the already politically inclined. With them Khan had an epic turnout.Whether the politically awakened educated and professional classes will slip back into a slumber is, like so much else about this place, hard to predict. After CJ Iftikhar’s failure, if Khan fails too, will they grow disillusioned with expressing their disillusionment so?
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**More certain is that the other change that has propelled Khan is here to stay and will probably keep growing in influence: the electronic media.
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**Khan had not been treated fairly by the media until Sunday, particularly in Punjab and Karachi (and so pretty much all over Pakistan). But as the electronic media has blanketed urban Pakistan and its message has seeped into rural Pakistan by osmosis, the impact has been profound.
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**Corruption, violence, injustice, malfeasance and misfeance, incompetence and negligence, wantonness, greed, unfairness — in their idiosyncratic way, the news channels have peeled back the veneer and given Pakistanis an unvarnished look at their country.
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The public always had a good idea of the country they live in, but everything is closer now, more immediate. Where previously people knew which local policeman was corrupt, which local judge prone to taking a bribe, which local administrator incompetent and which local politician was ferociously padding his nest, now they know the sins of omission and commission by policemen, judges, administrators and politicians nationally.
And each night the message packaged as news all day is relentlessly pedalled as analysis: the people who claim to represent you or are paid to serve and protect you are screwing you to an extent you didn’t know and in ways you hadn’t a clue about.
**The old guard and the tried-and-failed have only made it worse for themselves. From the chateau in France to ‘corruption is our right’ and from ‘a degree is a degree, whether fake or real’ to displays of unpleasantness and uncouthness, the unrepresentativeness of a system that claims to represent has burned like never before.
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**Rising above that miasma has been the untainted Khan, railing against a corrupt and broken system night after night, talk show after talk show. Inadvertently and with no grand design at work — remember, the electronic media hadn’t embraced Khan though it promoted the same broader message he had — the comparison between the rot of the old and the glow of the new has ceaselessly been pumped into homes across the country, changing the attitudes and perceptions of people.
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**So Imran Khan’s Pakistan is an already changed Pakistan. The question is, can he sustain and build on that change?
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The writer is a member of staff.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
It's quite simples. Nawaz and Zardari are Billionaires or almost there. They're the corrupt kingpins.
Most of what you wrote is meaningless.
Also, Atleast Imran Khan has graduated from a credible univesity. I don't think Nawaz and Zardari even went to University.
magar in crook cricketers ne mulk ke saath dhoka kya oar mulk ka naam badnaam kya. It is worst than corruption. IK should not cry on those who sold their contury's honor and respect in peanunts. I am surprised that supporters are condoning this. This can open another pandoran's box which country may not sustain. If IK would have been honest, he would have condemned this incident without rancour or pity.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
If graduation is some thing than all the previous and present MPAs and MNAs all are graduates ,
Tell the only reason to support him ,
He is from ..........
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Zardari asks Malik to see if the players can be bailed out, and Malik saying that legal help will be provided to them. Anyways legal help if any should have been provided before the sentences were handed out.
Zardari expresses ‘disappointment’ over PCB role in spot-fixing case
**President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed disappointment over the role played by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the spot-fixing case and has sought a complete report in this regard, *Express 24/7 *reported on Friday.
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik had earlier briefed the president on the sentences handed to the three Pakistani players.
Zardari has sought a comprehensive report from the PCB and has directed the governing body to take steps to avoid such scandals in the future.
The president has also directed the cricket board and Malik to look for ways to bail out the three players.
**Malik requests legal aid for spot-fixing trio
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**Malik had earlier today, while commenting on the spot fixing verdict, said that the decision was taken on first level in the court and that he had requested Pakistan’s High Commissioner to United Kingdom (UK) Wajid Shamsul Hassan to provide necessary legal aid to the trio.
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Speaking to the media, Malik had said that if it were a conspiracy against the players, it should be revealed to the world and a commission should investigate the issue from scratch.
The interior minister said, “We cannot rule out the possibility of any of the convicted players being innocent.”
**He said that the players will not be left alone and that legal aid would be provided to them.
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Earlier on Thursday, Malik had vowed that the government will defend players tainted in the spot-fixing trial as citizens of Pakistan if they are found innocent.
(Read: Govt to defend spot-fixing trio if found innocent: Rehman Malik)](http://tribune.com.pk/story/287005/govt-to-defend-spot-fixing-trio-if-found-innocent-rehman-malik/)
He said that the government will see if the charges against the players are true or is there a conspiracy against them.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Zardari asks Malik to see if the players can be bailed out, and Malik saying that legal help will be provided to them. Anyways legal help if any should have been provided before the sentences were handed out.
So do you approve this action of Zardari? If yes, then what is the difference between IK and Zardari's thinking in dealing with this case? If no, then IK's is absolutely wrong in crying for these crooks, and condemn Zardari for bailing them out.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Well the thing is that the government should have provided legal cover to the players when the case was on, as far as the players are concerned I think every one would have supported the sentences to Salman Butt and Asif, I personally think the sentences handed over to both should have been much tougher.
Amir's case was quite different because of the circumstances and his age, I think he should have been spared, sentencing of the others still would have made the impact.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
http://dunyanews.tv/index.php?key=Q2F0SUQ9MiNOaWQ9NDk3NTU=‘Startling’ Imran spells out clear change strategy](http://dunyanews.tv/index.php?key=Q2F0SUQ9MiNOaWQ9NDk3NTU=)
Last Updated On[13 November,2011 About 37 minutes ago
Imran Khan has yet again startled his political opponents by giving a clear roadmap for Pakistan.
Addressing a news conference on Sunday, the PTI chief, whose popularity is sharply rising in the country since his successful Lahore rally, said that the two major parties (PPP and PML-N) are status quo parties. “These two parties want to save the system,” he said.
Imran stressed that the PTI is a party of change and would welcome all parties wanting change and betterment in the country.
About his election strategy, including alliances, Imran put forth a policy that can best be called a ‘wait and see’ policy, though Imran for the first time even sounded a mature politician because he didn’t slam shut the door on politicians who have traditional constituency seats.
Imran said: “We will be in touch with all parties in favour of change. We will stay in touch with all parties, and we will decide about alliances near the elections time. We however welcome all politicians joining the PTI – the politicians stuck up in other parties being without options – all constituency candidates are welcome. We will even approach the parties similar to our ideology of change.”
About his call for politicians to declare assets, Imran said a committee has been formed to clear people seeking to join the PTI. Similarly, a scrutiny committee has been formed to check asset details of big names in all spheres, particularly politicians. The scrutiny committee comprises people who have served NAB or are ex-govt servants or lawyers.”
“Evens people who are in the PTI will be scrutinized,” he added.
Imran also hit the nail in the head when he demanded fair registration of votes – a subject long controversial in the country.
He said: “We will not allow any fiddling in the next elections. Electoral rolls are wrong as not even 15 per cent of voters have been registered. We will go to the SC to get an order that electoral rolls be formed on the basis of NADRA data.”
The PTI chief said the future of Pakistan depends on the next elections. “And we will try our best to get free and independent election commission.”
Imran said the PTI will hold next rally in Karachi. He also said that the PML-N is one such party that was formed by the military establishment.](http://dunyanews.tv/index.php?key=Q2F0SUQ9MiNOaWQ9NDk3NTU=)
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Establishment have already plans to keep us slave
Their only mission
Change of a face with a more dirty face.
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/299963_244236112298222_123461927708975_618112_624594477_n.jpg
Re: Why Imran Khan?
establishment was beaten in turkey by erdogan, why couldnt they have been beaten by zardari and nawaz sharif in pakistan?
the establishment is the weakest at present due to the war in kp and balochistan, but still if nawaz and zardari couldnt free the country from the clutches of the establishment, its the fault of the politicians and not the other way round.
Erdogan Closer to Civilian Control of Turkish Military After Generals Quit](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-29/turkey-s-top-four-generals-resign-amid-dispute-with-erdogan-lira-weakens.html)
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Just see the difference of education between Turkey and Pakistan.
Just come and see,what happening in cantonment areas,
I am sorry ,I can say more but count the houses.
Just ask about commercial projects of Turkish establishment.
And than see Pakistan.
This is money war.
Re: Why Imran Khan?
read about turkey and the role of its army in the politics (since ataturk's time), it has taken erdogan 10 years to rid the army of the affairs of the country...its because he has the support of its people, he has virtually turned the economy of the country around and the people have voted him in for the third time!! its not easy for the army to go against a person who has the support of the people. had peoples party and pmln worked hard to turn around pakistan's economy do you really think that the people are mad to support the establishment? the political parties dont do anything but seeing their unpopularity they start laying the blame of all their failures on the establishment...
Re: Why Imran Khan?
Has anyone readd Imran Khan's latest book (Pakistan, A personal history?)
I feel that he is a nice guy, but i also feel that he can do more good if he perhaps doesn't become president. He is the sort of person who can push boundaries more and do more for the country if he is not bogged down by legal problems and ruling the govt. i defo agree that he has been made a figurehead, but i also think that he has the potential to do well, if only because, as you lot has said it, he has a clean slate to start off with