Interview: Imran Khan on Elections and Boycott

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The miserable chowk staff had banned me yet once again

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Good for Massaddi Mian..... You have more time to regurgitate between 7th century and Mills.

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Good for Massaddi Mian..... You have more time to regurgitate between 7th century and Mills.

"Several polls by independent agencies have also indicated an increase of popularity of PTI, especially in Punjab and NWFP."

And why is that Mr Khan? Why only Punjab and NWFP?

Imran is good as long as he does not come to Karachi, Hyderabad and Urban Sind.

IB and fake bismillah,

It is because you'll need to get water from somewhere ... and wheat ... and electricity.

Rajasthan? Good idea.

... and Masadi mian has more principles than anyone else in not getting a duplicate nic for when he's banned by this kanjarsite.com, for merely calling some people peons of the west, quite accurately.

imran khan is a great man. urduspeakers fear him and are jealous of him although he has never done anything against them or said anything against them . He's frequently accused by Karachiites to have an anti Karachi bias even during his playing days. This is most preposterous. when he was made captain in 1982 the first thing he did was drop his own first cousin, the great majid khan from the side as he was out of form and included a player from Karachi in his place. later on when selectors tried to drop shoaib mohammad, another karachiite, he threatened to resign from the captaincy if he wasnt inlcuded in the team. now how in the world does this smack of anti-karachi bias.

Imran khan even once foolishly called for repatriating those so-called pakistanis known as biharis to pakistan on an urgent basis in a live BBC program called Question time pakistan in 2003. HIS exact words on the issue were "for me this is not a poliical issue, this is a human issue"

THE urduspeakers cant relish the fact that a hero of his stature is a non-urduspeaker. on top of it he is a hated pathan belonging to the accursed punjab . i think karachiites have become too used to worshipping murderers, terrorists and bhatta-khors as heroes.

Dear Imran,

There are not enough words to thank you for standing up for us exiled, disenfranchised, and voiceless people. People like me have lost their country because of a corrupt ruling elite that has its fangs dug deep into our jugulars. They have made it impossible for people like us to earn rizq-e-halal in Pakistan any more. They just change faces and change clothes to oppress us anew everytime a change is promised to us. I have very little faith in Pakistani politicians and I think that they should all be lined up against the wall and be shot. Because of them and the their strong arm, the napak and lawless fouj mafia, today I am and many like me are forced to live in this cold, bland and godforsaken place. Yes we have money and all that that money can buy but nothing can replace even a spec of dust that flies on the dusty roads in Pakistan. Not a day goes by when my eyes are not welled up thinking about the streets and people I grew up with. Damn them! Be God's curse upon them! for they stolen my country from me. I am putting my faith in you, a politician, for the very last time, for it is written on the wall that if this corrupt, oppressive, pro-western ruling elite fails to recognize what people are asking of them this time then their next meeting with the people would be at the guillotine park. They have no sense of the gravity of the situtaion. Please do not betray us.

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What is the big deal? You kick some, you
get kicked some.
You hounded out hinjews and sikhs out of
their homeland, somebody else hounded you
out of your homeland.
They have no chance of getting it back
and so do you. Live with it.

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There is a time and place for everything; and this is not the time and place to weasel your hindutva agenda in here. Please keep in mind that by 1948 about 13.5 million refugees eneterd into Pakistan and by 1951 when exchange of poppulation was officially over, over 20 million refugees had entered Pakistan. Someone stole their country too. Was it you?

Leaving aside benazir, who is an opportunist and self-serving for her own political survival and merely using her inherited electorate for personal salvation from penalties of corruption cases, there is overall agreement on the restoration of Judiciary amongst the others. However, there are two very clear tactical means to achieve the same result. One is to boycott, the other is to participate. Weighing the likelihood of success of each, the boycott option seems weak with Benazir bent upon participating and sacrificing the judiciary in return for favorable accommodation by musharraf. Her participation will enable an easy 2/3rd parliamentary majority for an 18th amendment to seal the power of the troika (COAS/President/PM) for a long time to come when the purpose of the boycott is to eliminate altogether the role of the army/President in politics and restore the same to the Parliament as envisaged in 1973 constitution. Thus, the Boycott option would be counter-productive.

Participation, on the other hand, will enable the opposing politicians to mobilize the masses around the demand of restoration of Judiciary and Constitution, sit in the assemblies and block all moves at legitimization of Nov 3rd, and wait for the right time to strike once the civil-society movement led by Ch. Aitezaz (this time with even more vigour than seen before during the CJ movement - then it was only the lawyers - now there're all hitherto apolitical sections of civil-society) gains critical mass. That will be the time when real change will occur.

As Aitezaz said upon his short release for Eid yesterday (promptly revoked today after his following remarks amongst other):

"Let them enjoy this mela (festival) of 8th January and have their fun. The real game will begin later.

Re: # 10 Urstruly
I can feel your pain. But we, ourselves, are far more to blame than anyone else. We chickened out and left; and choose to stay away. Of those who remain, many do simply because they don't have the choice that you and I had. Then there are some courageous ones who stay and fight. That is what is needed to change things. That is what we did not do.

Yes, the fauj is napak in Pak; but those in fauj come from among us; they are not aliens. The lack of character across the board leads to lack of mutual trust. It helps to create the dog-eat-dog world that we have. That is what those, who had foresight, had told us we would have.

"Never did it happen that a people ceased to struggle and Allah(SWT) did not Make humiliation and debasement their portion".

I leave you with those words from Abu Bakr(RA)to contemplate.

viqarm writes "Yes, the fauj is napak in Pak; but those in fauj come from among us; they are not aliens"

They might come from "among us" but the institution that molds and shapes them is externally imposed, it is genuinely "alien": it is an indigeneously staffed US occupation force. Struggle will get you nowhere unless you understand how the game is played, just as it gets those busting their a$$ 15 hours a day day in and day out nowhere out of poverty. You need to think at the social/institutional level rather than pass indiviudual moralistic judgments. Regarding your quote at the end, I doubt Allah had given Abu Bakr or anyone else the authority to pass such broad generalizations in his name......