What’s this all fuss about? Whom all these people are chanting for? To find the answer take a little walk to the edge of the town; go across the tracks, where viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks, pass the squares, pass the bridges, pass the streets, pass the stacks till on a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man in a dusty black coat with a pale pure plan. The multiplying villanies of traditional tricky political nature do swamp upon us, someone’s pad has been set, someone’s seats have been taken, is it late to join? If yes than we are often to blame in this than anyone else, and this too much proved that with devotion’s visage and pious actions we do sugar all devil himself, so what’s now I say buckle up guys; we are about to get underway, when you have your eyes open than you don’t have to be worry about that you are about to get tricked by yet another game like earlier generation, if its true even than its worth a try, because sometimes you just got to roll the dice.
PTI and Imran Khan, claiming to be the ray of hope of potential change, let us evaluate this claim, in current sociopolitical and geo-political scenario of apparent disorder where sovereignty and dominion of Pakistan is being stressed and violated by US in the “request” of do more in so-called war on terror, melt down of national economy which is palpable in devastating down fall of national public institutions like railways, WAPDA, PIA and steel mill, energy crisis all over the country, ever rising corruption at every level of government examples of which were blown up in various “presents” of extremely shameless acts of sleaze corruption like haj scandal, rental power plants etc, situation of law and order in various cities specially Karachi where people are being held hostage by ruling “love” triangle of PPP, ANP & MQM, killings of innocent baluchs and non-baluchs in Quetta, in the context of domestic political play offs between PPP and PML(N) where two major parties with an indistinguishable obeisance approach towards the subjects failed to reflect the true intent of any positive outcome, these are the attributes one has to look forward before actually assert to bring the change, all the similarities in posture of PPP and Nawaz League on major matters and their failure in their resolution created a space, a void which made people to look towards something new, some thing different, someone to look up to, someone to believe in and then there was a 30th October which shook the traditional power politics, PTI was there before but never was considered as seriously, by most political pundits Imran Khan was phrased as yet another Asghar Khan and PTI got not much magnitude than late Therek-e-Istaqlal, but IK’s will to fight attained him a significant tallness, he said 30th October will be beginning of new dawn and he proved it by attracting people of great Lahore out the lure of PMLN and made them heard all across the country.
Interesting feedback about the whole out break of PTI is the reaction of several political groups, PPP and PMLQ appeared to be satisfy on realizations of the facts that there is another political force which is ready to take a big chunk out of PMLN’s vote bank, on the other hand many honest PMLN leaders accepted this fact that Lahore is “a fort no more” for them and that they had to bite their nails d while watching the proceedings of 30th October, PPP 2.0, a Zardari’s release of PPP which is mostly an antique collection of bunch of over smart over-confident convicts who sidelined actual hardcore nationalist bhuttoism from the party which was its true essence and made it a group of extraterrestrials for an old school PPP voter, having that been said PPP did take PMLN to the school several time and made an absolute fool out of them by getting all the meaningful support out of them by playing with military intervening fear factor of Naraz Sharif and giving absolutely nothing in return to them, PPP feels more than just happy on the apparent PTI epidemics which according to them to an extent will neutralize venom of raywind but what PPP has failed to realize that unnoticingly first they have cornered PPP to rural sindh and converted it into remote regional party by walking out on the spirit of nationalism heir to them by BB and ZA.Bhutto and now like PMLN PPP only generates displays of political support on the basis of their core support centers lying mainly in rural sindh, PPP’s attitude has made PTI equally hazardous for them as like what happened with PMLN, many sophisticated, educated and well versed PPP supporters are finding themselves inclined towards PTI and Imran khan, because of the similarities of the problems they faced every day due to lack of good governess and unavailability of an answer when one questions about what their party is doing in stipulations of moving towards the solution of current chaos, what PTI has able to accomplish more than any thing in whole circumstances is fact that they have productively marked themselves or presented themselves as a platform for those who are disappointed from status-quo of marked political numbness which scattered around Pakistan’s political scene, whether one is political worker or just a common citizen he finds indications of his answers in gloom of PTI.
As far as PMLN is concerned Naraz sharif looks in an absolute shock after display of people’s power by the people’s champ in Lahore, indication of this shock is quite observable in behavior of PMLN’s 2nd grade leadership and blindfolded workers, frankly speaking everyone knows that sharifs have analogous strangle hold over majority of central and upper Punjab like MQM has in Karachi and Haidrabad, just like PPP, PMLN is suffering from their own fatal mistakes, a party which able to get into power structure twice that too in supporting shade of establishment at end was totally failed to deliver in either of two tenures, PMLN’s acts of submission in reply of foreign interference is similar that of the official stance of PPP government, they performed almost alike when it comes to separate them from PPP that’s may be the reason PMLN is getting jolt after jolt, for instance mishandled Raymond Davis issue where first PMLN leader ship tried it to cash in with people by giving it an unnecessary hype by creating an impression that they are willing to trial the killer independently and federal government is the standing stone in their way, than later letting the bully fly away in compliance of their declaration of capitulation and surrender to US pressure which gave lot of people a much clearer opportunity to understand their real policy of first roaring and then boring, like many other occasions this event expressed another example of synchronization on key policy point of actions when one tries to compare the difference between PPP and PMLN, and quite frankly there is no such difference to talk about, PPP and PMLN are two different sides of a same coin, worth alike.
IK seems to possess diverse point of view and a dynamic loom to all of it, views which are more close to the mind-set of common masses which appeals them to support him, peep of which support was exceptionally visible at the show down at Minar-e-Pakistan when people came out on his call to express their detest towards the sick skims of status-quo, people uttered their compliance towards IK’s schema, approach, outset and about what he says, for the people who state that this achievements of IK is something out of the blue my advise would be to look at the time he has taken to be able to reach this place which are 16 long years of terrible ups an downs, mistakes and blunders, both personal and political, sure he needs more to learn but just casting his flair out with mere irrational bollocks of illogical reasoning is somehow unfair to the man, he’s been there, made stupid calls and learned from them. What PTI has to offer to counter these matters? A question which requires some answering, assessment of which necessitate an analysis of what PTI officially asserts as a plan of action, Imran Khan declared the out lines in his several speeches, press conferences, and public meetings about the sketches of his strategic approach towards the blazing concerns nation is facing these days, after going through few of those I concluded that he has claimed that his party would focus political approaches on counter terror strategy while anti-corruption campaign would be on top of agenda, unlike other political parties that rely on empty rhetoric, which is visible to naked eyes when one gazes around and see bunch of political circuses presenting magic shows mostly in front of their own blind ignorant followers, PTI has prepared a plan of action with specific steps backed by a detailed cost and revenue plan within a timeframe. IK said that the plan has a number of strategic levels of implementation. In the first phase, action would be taken on burning issues such as terrorism, corruption unemployment, inflation and health. PTI leadership further stated that austerity measures would be put in place, by which all special perks and privileges of the president, prime minister, ministers, and parliamentarians would be abolished. On jobs creation, he said that major physical infrastructure projects would be initiated to generate employment. He stated that the measures proposed would increase revenue generation would be double in 5 years by measures to increase and broaden the tax and bring the rich into the tax net. Khan said that the youth of the country would be involved massively in labour and technology intensive projects. He said judicial and police reforms would be instituted to ensure the rule of law and all Judges of the higher courts would be appointed through a Judicial Commission without any involvement of the parliamentarians. He also suggested that all government appointments would be made through restructured public service commissions.
To be honest IK’s speeches, plans, intentions including roar in Lahore on 30th October have a mixed reaction, few things he stated seemed realistic and quite doable considering current parameters, and some part of it gave the impression of mere flow of a rush, PTI is so far just a one man show, though people like Ahsan Rasheed, Hamid Khan, Miyan Azher has a significant meaning, but what IK and PTI should critically consider now is to put forward a team of few more certain gutsy individuals presence of whom should ensure some sort of credibility among the people about the grove of what he claims to meet as a party, one can run along with emotions as long and as hard as he likes but when it comes delivering that’s where all his sayings and doings gets evaluated and escalated, if IK fails to put together a bunch of potential individuals with distinguished stature and insist on operating one man show with intention to fly a solo flight he could collapse as many did earlier than there will be no difference between him and others, one has to realize that what PTI has picked as ground of their politics is a political field of very fertile soil for them, in absence of any other alternative majority of the youth of Pakistan has rated his manifesto as one to support, initial steps taken by PTI in term of setting objectives seems pure but plan seems pale in absence of categorize, systematic structured struggle and lack of organizational, methodical approach specifically in Sind and Baluchistan, what PTI has to undersatnd is the veracity of the matter that if they are willing to fulfill what they pledge, they have to be a country level voice which needed to be heard from all over Pakistan not just from few significant sections of Punjab and Khyber Pukhtoonkwha, PTI and Imran Khan have attained the attention and came into notice of majority of a group of common people who previously were termed as silent majority, they now have to work even harder to convert this attention into support and then turn that support in to vote, still a long way to go but beginning seems to be very impressive, bearing in mind that they have to cover approximately 64000 polling stations and with current organizational structure and of PTI, they have to work really hard and keep their heads down, they should not fall into arrogance and should avoid any superiority complex after listening to so much praise and anticipations people of Pakistan are associating with them because of their bright displays which will certainly help them to focus on the task in hands which could become quite a challenging one in presence of any such dogma of pride. Having all this being said, bottom line is that PTI & Imran Khan is now a force to reckon with in upcoming polls, a day, which if held correctly is suppose to vindicate the vigilant, and the virtuous.
If PMLN, PPP, MQM, ANP, PMLQ bag of disease-ridden degenrates and other political parties, which are basic, firm ingredient of this shallow status quo, a state of numbness which has failed to fulfill people’s expectoration, inconsiderately continued on to play their ill will of absolute ignorance with thought of deceiving people of Pakistan once again, they should now know that there is someone else also to challenge them all, not listening to the voices around them denying those echoes will this time only be termed as befooling not anyone else but themselves, if they all are still wondering what’s this all fuss about? Whom all these people are chanting for? To find the answer my advise to them would be take a little walk to the edge of the town; go across the tracks, where viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks, pass the squares, pass the bridges, pass the streets, pass the stacks till on a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man in a dusty black coat with a pale pure plan.
