Courtesy: "Saach.TV" (5 Sep 2012)
State of Denial
On the media's undue criticism of PTI and Imran Khan
Dr. Ahsan Malik
Call this a rebuttal or an eye opener, the fact remains that many writers and ‘analysts’ penning down their (wrongly judged) thoughts with regards to their favourite political clan – PTI, often build their case by conveniently ignoring key facts central to PTI’s theme/strategy/vision/ideas. Let me quote some recent examples:
My favourite writer, a former army major Mr.Kamran Shafi in his recent piece about his perception of some recent interviews expressed displeasure at the unspoken, supposed invitation by Mister Tsunami and Doctor Tsunami to ‘join’ PTI. He also ‘wanted in’ on the secret of “…how Imran manages his household on Rs 50,000 a month…”. However, I am very pleased to relieve the honourable Major of his apprehensions since the invitation by mister & doctor tsunami to Dr.Aalim was explicitly to play his role in politics (just like every citizen should); the invitation was clearly not for joining PTI. Also, narration of the Rs 50k salary incident by Dr.Tsunami was set in the pre-2005 era when 50 thousand rupees had some considerable value; still, if someone wants to learn home economics: refer to the Rs10k earning labourer. Furthermore, if my Major has dreamt of Dr.Aalim joining PTI then he should revive his military-era courage and voice it openly. He may not meet disappointment (fingers crossed).
Another of his articles in which i found his arguments very interesting was where he made his case for convincing us to own ‘the war’. He was successful in eliciting praise from all but a few of my Indian friends, clearly shown by their expressive comments on the webpage where the article was published. The problem lay in basing his whole argument on the smokescreen of the ‘taliban’ and the Major’s inability to observe beyond the obvious.
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