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Sunday, 30 September 2012

"Imran Khan is very much here" - @MehrTarar beautifully reminds everyone

Courtesy: "Daily Times" (30 Sep 2012)
Source Link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\09\30\story_30-9-2012_pg3_5
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Et maintenant Imran?

By Mehr Tarar
Imran Khan is very much here and with an apology to all those who wish otherwise, there is no chance he is going anywhere quietly in the near future

You love him or you hate him, you cannot ignore him. He speaks and you listen — either to nod your head in starry-eyed adulation or to roll your eyes and change the channel, dimly bored, trying to figure out what to do when there is no T20 excitement to follow on the good old PTV. Is he the man that he is, the man people think he is, the man people close to him think he is, the man people who think they are close to him think he is, or is he the man according to people who want to see him disappear into political oblivion? Probably, he is all that, or maybe not, or perhaps much more than all that is known and apparent about him. The politician with the most Twitter followers in Pakistan and the politician who is one of the two for most who follow him or hate those who follow him: a messiah or the man who is the absolute worst thing that could happen to the very, very strange country called Pakistan. The cricketer-turned-philanthropist-turned-failed-politician-turned-the-next-expected-big-thing, Imran Khan is very much here and with an apology to all those who wish otherwise, there is no chance he is going anywhere quietly in the near future.

"The days of the jackals!" - Analysis on the leaders leaving PTI

Courtesy: "The Nation" (22 Sep 2012)
Source Link: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/columns/22-Sep-2012/the-days-of-the-jackals
The days of the jackals!
An analysis on the leaders leaving PTI
By: Dr Haider Mehdi

A folktale in the villages of Punjab goes as follows: a jackal passing a village accidentally ran through a garment dyer’s workshop and got covered with blue dye. When the jackal reached the jungle, it looked all blue. Other animals had never seen anything like it and were curious to know what kind of animal it was and where it came from. The jackal realised the importance of his changed appearance and said its name was “Neel Kant”, and it was a rare and unique species of animal found only in remote jungles of a far-off place. Several days passed and the self-proclaimed “Neel Kant” jackal enjoyed its importance. Then one day it rained and “Neel Kant’s” blue colour washed away. The jackal’s real identity was exposed and the other animals realised that it was just one of the many jackals running around with the same common jackal mentality. So, “Neel Kant” was exposed and its myth was destroyed. The moral of this story is that changed appearances or manufactured identities only serve its purpose in a very limited sense. Falsehood is eventually unmasked and the result is loss of personal integrity, respect and self-esteem.

It occurred to me that the above tale and its moral serve as a perfect analogy to the political conduct of some of our traditional politicians. Those political actors, who are endlessly engaged in constructing their personal identities to conform to expedience and opportunism: they manipulate every possible chance for personal optimal advantages, irrespective of any ethical-moral or even commonly-accepted norms of political behaviour. Those politicians subscribe to no specific political ideology, doctrine or set of political principles - their driving force is to grab political power with the end result of personal gains, maintenance of the decade-old political status quo, and the preservation of the decadent political culture that has served their interests irrevocably.

Against this backdrop, the recent exodus of some of the politicians from Imran Khan’s PTI is a point of focus. In TheNation of September 12, a story, entitled Embarrassment for PTI, opined the following: “But now the PTI leadership is facing a new embarrassment. Those who had joined the party in the recent past have started going back. For example, Sardar Tufail has rejoined the PML-Q and been given ticket for himself and his son. The Bhinders of Gujranwala, who had left the PML-Q to join the PTI, have parted company with Imran and joined hands with the PML-N. These departures amount to a serious setback for the PTI.”

"Mian Saheb se Kuch Sawalat" - Some questions that need to be answered by PMLN

Courtesy: Saach.TV
Source Link: http://www.saach.tv/2012/09/18/mian-sahab-se-kuch-sawalat/

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Sunday, 9 September 2012

"Shehr-Panah ka Darwaza" - Munir Baloch analyses desperation of Ch Nisar and PMLN

Courtesy: Daily "Dunya" (9 Sep 2012)

Link: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2012-09-09&edition=LHR&id=53_96445186
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Disclaimer: This blog is not an official PTI webpage and is run by a group of volunteers having no official position in PTI. All posts are personal opinions of the bloggers and should, in no way, be taken as official PTI word.
With Regards,
"Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf FATA Volunteers" Team.

#WaziristanPeachMarch PTI North Waziristan plans warm welcome for Imran Khan

Courtesy: Daily "The News" (9 Sep 2012)
NWA PTI plans warm welcome for Imran Khan

MIRANSHAH: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Miranshah chapter president Naseem Dawar Friday said students and people of the North Waziristan Agency (NWA) would welcome the party chairman Imran Khan during his long march to Waziristan against the drone attacks.

Speaking at a news conference here, he said the number of the US drone attacks was increasing and killing mostly the civilians. He said that Imran Khan was the only leader who raised slogan against it and decided to stage the march to highlight the issue internationally.

A branch of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital would also be opened in the area, he added.
Link Source:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-130775-NWA-PTI-plans-warm-welcome-for-Imran-Khan

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Disclaimer: This blog is not an official PTI webpage and is run by a group of volunteers having no official position in PTI. All posts are personal opinions of the bloggers and should, in no way, be taken as official PTI word.
With Regards,
"Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf FATA Volunteers" Team.

Friday, 7 September 2012

"Javed Chaudhry Saheb ke Liye" - Young blogger's response to the "Intellectual" (via Saach.TV)

Courtesy: "Saach.TV" (7 Sep 2012)
Link: http://www.saach.tv/2012/09/07/javed-chaudhary-sahab-keley/

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

"Najam Sethi se Mazrat ke Saath" - Response to the 'Intellectual' by a young blogger (via Saach.TV)

Courtesy: "Saach.TV" (2 Sep 2012)
Link: http://www.saach.tv/2012/09/03/janab-najam-sethi-se-mazrat-kay-sath/

Saturday, 1 September 2012

"PTI's Economic Vision" - By @Asad_Umar - a good analysis of what PTI Economic Policy stands for

Courtesy: "The News" (1 Sep 2012)
The PTI's Economic Vision
By Asad Umar

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf announced its five-year economic vision recently. There has been a varied response to it, but a recurring theme in many of the responses, including that in the editorial on the subject in The News, has been that the analysis of issues is spot-on but implementation-level details are insufficient. To quote from the editorial, “The PTI’s economic policy plan gets full marks for intention and vision.” High praise, indeed. It has never been lack of plans for detailed implementation which stops reform from happening. The roadblocks are lack of political will and unwillingness to take the entrenched vested interests head-on and compromises made for political expediency and self-interests. The second major hurdle is governance failure and weak institutions, and that causes even sincere efforts to fail. The economic vision of the PTI addresses each of these and takes a bold political stance on them.

The PTI’s economic vision is based on five national emergencies that have to be declared to deal with the core structural problems of Pakistan’s economy. The first is energy reform. The key elements of resolving the energy crises include changing the fuel mix, revamping the rundown low-efficiency generation and distribution system, fast-tracking new generation capacity and gas imports, incentivising exploration activity, developing the local coal reserves, harnessing the hydroelectric potential of the country, utilising its renewable energy potential and getting the regulatory and incentive structure right for the whole energy sector. Detailed work on most of these aspects has been done, and is underway in a couple of areas. Just the conversion of furnace-oil based capacity to coal would save approximately four billion dollars a year and we would be able to get rid of the circular debt crises by reducing the cost of power generation, instead of increasing tariffs. Recognising the importance of fixing the energy crises we have included 20 billion dollars of government investment in this sector in the five-year period. Private investment will be in addition to this.

"Courting change" - PTI Economic Policy and Media's Cynical Reaction to it (By Babar Sattar, The News)

Courtesy: Daily "The News" (1 Sep 2012)
Courting change
On Media's Cynical Reaction to PTI's Economic Policy
By Babar Sattar

It is hard to poke holes in the PTI’s economic policy which highlights and addresses pressing problems of economics and governance confronting us without telling us that milk and honey will begin to flow the moment the PTI is voted into power. Being the sensible and pragmatic CEO that Asad Umar has been, he has told us that there are no quick fixes to Pakistan’s maladies, but neither are they incurable. Essentially his party will try and enhance our resource pool, curtail state opulence and undesirable expenditure and use the money freed up to reduce budget deficit on the one hand and invest in basic citizen services (health, education and skill development) on the other. What is there to disagree with in any of this?

Yes, the devil is always in the detail. The PTI says it will come up with sector-wise specific policies that will include implementation plans. We should critically review the macro plan and the detailed policies. We should examine if these policies and plans address the problems that are holding Pakistan down. We should scrutinise PTI’s priorities reflected in these policies and determine who will they benefit. We should analyse whether they are pure rhetoric or can actually be implemented. We should compare and contrast them with the policies and performance of the other mainstream parties – the PPP and the PML-N. Why is it that we have seen none of this in the public debates since the release of the PTI’s economic policy?

The media’s perfunctory and cynical response to PTI’s economic policy is worrying. The problem is not that the media didn’t like the policy but that it is not interested. We are interested in the Swiss letter and whether or not the Supreme Court will send another prime minister packing. We are interested in corruption scandals and who all can be named and shamed. We are interested in conspiracy theories of all sorts, in gossip, in violence. We have ample time and energy to be cynical and dismissive, but none to be constructive. We love the blame-game but have no interest or patience to engage with the real issues. If the media sells what people buy, what does its lack of focus on problem-solving say about us as a society?

"Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif aur Right-wing Voter" - brilliant analysis by Sajjad Ahmad (Awaaz Daily, 26 Aug 2012)

Courtesy: "Awaaz Daily" (26 August 2012)
Source: http://www.awaazdaily.com/urdu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2396:2012-08-26-01-28-16&catid=315:2011-01-13-13-04-45&Itemid=530

Saturday, 18 August 2012

"Raiwind ke Mandiron ki Daasi, Zard Sahafat" - Adnan Randhawa exposes PMLN paid columnists Irfan Siddiqui etc (SaachTV, 18 Aug 2012)

Courtesy: "Saach.TV" (18 August 2012)
Source: http://www.saach.tv/2012/08/18/raiwind-ke-mandron-ki-dasi-zard-sahafat/

Thursday, 16 August 2012

"Imran Khan Must be Doing Something Right" - By Pankaj Mishra (New York Times, 16 Aug 2012)

Courtesy: "New York Times" (16 August 2012)
Imran Khan Must be Doing Something Right
By PANKAJ MISHRA

On a cool evening in March, Imran Khan, followed by his dogs, walked around the extensive lawns of his estate, sniffling with an incipient cold. “My ex-wife, Jemima, designed the house — it is really paradise for me,” Khan said of the villa, which sprawls on a ridge overlooking Himalayan foothills and Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. “My greatest regret is that she is not here to enjoy it,” he added, unexpectedly poignantly. We walked through the living room and then sat in his dimly lighted bedroom, the voices of servants echoing in the empty house, the mournful azans drifting up from multiple mosques in the city below.

Khan, once Pakistan’s greatest sportsman and now its most popular politician since Benazir Bhutto, exuded an Olympian solitude that evening; it had been a long day, he explained, of meetings with his party’s senior leaders. The previous two months, he said, had been the most difficult in his life. His party was expanding amazingly fast and attracting “electables” — experienced men from the governing and main opposition parties. But the young people who constituted his base wanted change; they did not want to see old political faces. “I was being pulled apart in different directions,” Khan said. “I thought I was going mad.”

Khan’s granitic handsomeness, which first glamorized international cricket and has sustained the British media’s long fascination with his public and private lives, is now, as he nears 60, a bit craggy. There are lines and dark patches around his eyes. The stylishly barbered hair, thinning at the top, is flecked with gray, and his unmodulated baritone, ubiquitous across Pakistan’s TV channels, can sound irritably didactic.

“The public contact is never easy for me,” he said. “I am basically a private person.”

"Aasman ki taraf Thooka" (Daily Express, 5 Aug 2012) - Hameed Sethi blasts PMLN over SKMH allegations

Courtesy: Daily "Express" (5 Aug 2012)
Link: http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101588625&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20120805

"Storm in a Tea Cup" - Imtiaz Hydari clarifies myths; blasts PMLN & Kh Asif's SKMH slander campaign

Courtesy: Daily "The News" (5 August 2012)
Link: http://images.thenews.com.pk/05-08-2012/ethenews/e-124781.htm

Khwaja Asif vs Imran: investor speaks and answers key questions

ISLAMABAD: The man at the centre of the PML-N vs Imran Khan controversy over Shaukat Khanum investments, Imtiaz Hydari has come out publicly and blasted Khwaja Asif and his party declaring that his company handling $1.8 billion in funds has already absorbed the drop in value of a sound investment decision taken by the board.

“My company, HBG has taken steps to absorb the impairment in value by granting increased shares to SKMT i.e. the reduced value of Sugarland shares will be compensated by higher percentage shareholding of SKMT in Sugarland BVI. This preserves and protects SKMT investment. Additionally, HBG has also provided an undertaking to assist SKMT’s exit from the investment with Capital Protected,” Hydari said in a response released to the media on Saturday.

Reacting to the charges by Khwaja Asif, he stated: “I was amazed but more amused as I witnessed the Sherlock Homes-style performance of Khawaja Asif on television. Khoda Pahar aur Nikla Mara Hua Chooha!” The Urdu proverb means nothing came out of a huge storm in the tea cup.

Hydari said: “It is appropriate to set the record straight since his great discovery from publicly disclosed documents was gathering false alarms and in the process was hurting the finest public charity in Pakistan. If he is a man of any substance, he will appear again on television to Apologise to Imran Khan, SKMT and Imtiaz Hydari. Let me tell you why?”

Ibtila nahi, ye Khush-khabri ki ibtida hai" - Haroon Rasheed on SKMH allegations (Jang, 4 Aug 2012)

Courtesy: Daily "Jang" (4 Aug 2012)
http://e.jang.com.pk/pic.asp?npic=08-04-2012/Pindi/images/06_03.gif

"The Dirt Games - Legal Eye" | Legal perspective to SKMH allegations - by brilliant Babar Sattar >

Courtesy: Daily "The News" (4 August 2012)
The dirt games...Legal eye
Babar Sattar

Mohammad Ali is celebrated as a great fighter because other than being a tremendous athlete he knew when to hold his punches. But most fighters worry little about their legacy and focus squarely on winning. Elections are a fight too. They produce winners and losers. And like in all other fights some chose to fight dirty. At the end of the day, the support or lack-thereof for tactics employed in politics is a matter of taste. Politics is a dirty business. In an election year you see a lot of dirt smeared around even in mature democracies. Some judge those who are smeared. Others judge those doing the smearing. Elections campaigns whether negative or positive bring forth information into public domain. And as constituents we have a right to judge the information, those bringing it and the manner in which it is brought.

By now it is settled that someone who vies for public office doesn’t have the same right to privacy as an ordinary citizen, as privacy must give way to the public’s right to information. If someone paddles lies about you, you can take them to court for defamation. If someone expresses an opinion about that paints you black, you respond with your arguments and let people decide who is right. The theory of democracy suggests that in a marketplace of ideas where political leaders have more or less equal access to the media, the superior argument wins. Thus in reacting to the accusations levelled by the PML-N, there is no room for Imran Khan and the PTI to mount a high horse. If they want the job of managing this country, voters have a right to seek answers to all prickly questions.

"ISF - Tehreek-e-Insaf Uqaabi Rooh" - by Hassan Nisar (Daily Jang, 25 Jul 2012)

Courtesy: Daily "Jang" (25 Jul 2012)
By: Hassan Nisar
http://e.jang.com.pk/07-25-2012/lahore/pic.asp?picname=02_01.gif

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

"The PTI argument" by Adiah Afraz - A primer on bashing of PTI and Imran Khan

Courtesy: Daily "The News" (13 May 2012)
The PTI argument

By Adiah Afraz

My interest in the PTI is academic in nature. Well sort of. Actually as a PTI supporting columnist I often find myself in a strange position of being answerable for many PTI actions.

“Your Imran Khan has sent a letter to a JD rally?” I would be accused.

“Your Imran Khan has refused to share roof with Salman Rushdie in India” I would be smirked at.

“Your Imran Khan is calling us liberal scum...” long whine.

From Jamat-ud-Dawa to Sita White, and the philosophy of hair colour to the possibility of Botox, I am increasingly held accountable for a variety of things Imran Khan does or says. And frankly, being a layman of sorts especially when it comes to making polite conversation in the social sciences jargon, it is not always easy to avert the IK hating onslaught from the intellectual dragons.

I either make an emotional argument about Imran Khan’s honesty and philanthropy, or rephrase his theory of ‘engage the marginalised’, or simply just maintain a stubborn mulish stance that Imran Khan is good for Pakistan simply because he is. Period.

Thus begins a regimen of watching re-runs of Imran Khan interviews, tediously going through print sources, and randomly going to PTI events, quietly sitting in dark corners, and taking notes.

In order to inform, I need to stay informed.

Now no matter how much I want to make use of my notes from the PTI gatherings and write a ground breaking piece about how the PTI is a party of the liberal, by the liberal for the liberal; yet this one is not about the PTI as much as it is about my genuine inability to understand why there is so much scepticism about Imran Khan among certain intellectuals despite his spotless credentials.

The argument against Khan has three categories. The basic argument, the before and after argument, and the more ridiculous argument.

"Pull up your socks #PTI" - thought provoking analysis by Taufeeq Butt in Nai Baat (23 Jul 2012)

Daily Nai Baat (23 July 2012)
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"Hope is alive yet" - good column on #ISF evening with Imran Khan in Lahore (Nai Baat, 23 Jul 2012)

Daily Nai Baat (23 July 2012)
http://naibaat.net/naibaat/ePaper/lahore/23-07-2012/details.aspx?id=p11_03.jpg

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