‘It’s Just the Beginning’

Imran Khan's analysis of the Pakistani political perspective is shallow and childish. He is a half crazy ethnically motivated person with great failures in his personal married life. He cannot lead the national family, when he could not hold on to his own. His own allies, Jamat e Islami, work to destroy his image, as they did in the Lahore's Punjab University recently. Imran Khan has Nike running shoes on his feet all the time :-), to run away and escape .... that simply explains his mind set now. As a cricket legend he was respected, but he has lost that respect lately.

Imran Khan is the most deserving candidate to lead the nation. He has the integrity, the credentials and chrisma to take this country forward. The biggest proponent of independent judicial system from where springs the justice, fairness and rule of law.

I agree with ayaz in the sense that Imran is the only hope for survival as far as the current political scenerio is concerened... friends its time to strengthen him.. but those IJt students...

Dear Pathfinder,

You are again right in your comments. But Imran Khan going it alone is not something chosen by him. While he is sincere and honest and has only the good of Pakistan at heart look at the rest of the crowd. Maulana Fazlur Rehman ? What can be said about him ? He is a hypocrite one who runs with the hare and hunts with the hound. His forte is supposed to be religion but I dont see anything religious about him. Nawaz Sharif ? I still remember his air of grandeur which he adopted in his hay days. I still remember the day when I saw the group of PML hooligans assaulting the supreme court. Now the shoe is on the other foot so Mr. Sharif is becoming democrat. Benazir ? All my youth was spent as a PPP supporter till the moment when the daughter of the east supported a failing dictator to survive to get rid of cases against her. That was the end of my obsession with PPP. Qazi Hussain Ahmed ? Maybe well meaning but a spent force. Altaf ? I dont consider him a political leader.

Imran is the only alternative that we have for survival. His political acumen is growing and the most positive factor about him that he is honest to the nation. Can anyone say the same without reservation about any other political leader at present ?

I campaigned for Imran in the 2002 election and I interact with many people and my reading is that Imran has a growing support amongst the youth, the intellegentia and people who see him as the only viable alternative. I wont claim that he will win the election but I believe that he will get few seats this time particularly from Urban areas which will increase his weight in Pakistani politics.

There are couple of things I hate about Imran Khan. One is that he doesnt really know where to stop talking bad about Pakistan. In his interview, he claims that General's continuing rule is resulting in the spread of mosques and madrissas which are effectively projected as symbols of terrorist breeder houses in the western media. That quagmire worries millions of muslims in Pakistan who dont agree to what west says about the Islamic institutes. My recent observation of Imran have softened my heart for him on a personal level but realistically speaking there is too much dirt for him to handle in Pakistani politics. He could face deliveries bowled at him by single bowler in cricket, but politics is a different game. Here you face crap thrown at you from all sides. You simply cant stay clean evading all that. Imran Khan appreared carried away in this interview. He was obviously illusioned of a great support from students, lawyers and other politicians behind him while speaking with this correspondent. But the way things happened in Punjab University, he must return back to reality. I feel few sympathies with him.

Imran Khan is a headstrong person. I wish he has learnt the lesson on his arrest. He dreamt of leading a ' student revolution ' in modern Pakistan launching from Punjab University. It is absolutely clearly known to everyone that Punjab University is a stronghold of followers of Qazi Hussein's Jama'at Islami. How could he expect to earn any glory playing his game on their pitch ? I reckon he contacted Qazi and got his ' blessings ' to appear and launch his student movement from Punjab University. But he is still too naive to understand that Jama'at Islami is hypocrits at all levels starting right from Qazi himself. That is extremely self centered and self serving political party. They use the name of Islam for their own interests. Most unfortunately, they have infiltrated some of the edcation institutes and have control over youngsters most of whom are forced to link to them for the sake of solving their student level problems.

Pakistan politics is a rotten trash field. You group all the politicians together and you'd see wolves of different colors. But they all are wolves. Currently they are fighting for their share of the prey which is not ' equally ' distributed among them. Instead a larger wolf has kept them away for a long time. The people of Pakistan just cant come to realise what kind of leaders they are following. Common man is suffering and getting hurt in this fight of the wolves.

You see, most of these politicians were against one another in the past. Nawaz Sharif was against Benazir Bhutto against Imran Khan against Qazi Hussein Ahmad against Nawab Bugti, and all against one another. Recently, they tried to forge a political front against the General Musharraf and they met in UK. Some joined and some split right after that. Nawaz Sharif and Benazir announced a ' partnership ' to fight the General. At the same time, Benazir struck the deal with the General for her own benefits. She quit Nawaz Sharif and joined with the General. Nawaz Sharif tried to enter country and was deported. The politicians in Pakistan thought that the entire show was left to them. Benazir returned Pakistan imagining herself to be the next Prime Minister. But things went wrong somewhere and she threw the deal with the General and decided to take the whole nation to herself. Now, she wants to join Nawaz Sharif and others again. Imran Khan very rightly pointed out that she has no credibility left to her. She might join any group ... and as she has done many times in the past that she gets the advantage and then ditch her partners. She is a most untrustworthy and most corrupt politician in the world with no human shame at all. I have no clue what will come out when this storm will settle. The only thing right now I can imagine is that it will be the beginning of a new storm at the end of current one. May God save Pakistan from the wolves.

Imran, as a leader is a man of integrity. What he says makes sense and that is the way to progress for Pakistan. We must look to charismatic leaders like Imran to bring Pakistan out of this quagmire. As far as Tehrik I Insaf being a small party I believe that if we have free and transparent election Tehrik might come out as the tird force just behind PPP and PML (N) and this is the begining. God bless Imran and keep him safe

Imran, as a leader is a man of integrity. What he says makes sense and that is the way to progress for Pakistan. We must look to charismatic leaders like Imran to bring Pakistan out of this quagmire. As far as Tehrik I Insaf being a small party I believe that if we have free and transparent election Tehrik might come out as the tird force just behind PPP and PML (N) and this is the begining. God bless Imran and keep him safe