Imran Khan Needs Money

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Zakkk #61

Answer to your question: Certainly not! Thanks for posting the site to the other article. Although it did not come as a surprise to me, it may to some of the others.

The comments have gotten off the rails and heading nowhere. Lets get back to the Great Khan and his big Ego problem, sorry, his political problem. In the dirty waters of Paki politics, even a moron does know his worth after a while, unless he or she has Angles as voters and Brass monkeys as backers. So ideally he should have struck to his charity work. Now one way out of this dilemma is for Payjama,sorry Jemima Khan to set up an endowment trust with once in a life time mega donation to run the hospital from its income, so that the Great Khan is free to muck around in the dirty waters of Paki politics full time. And you never know, some Major/Lt. Col level circle of friends in some Garrison club are already watching his ARY appearances with fond approval...

Dear Ms Khan
This article may be of interest?
http://newsline.com.pk/newsbeatdec5.htm
On another note are you advocating the use of public money to fund political parties?

12 head,

First of all, dickheads like you are the classic reason why men should SHUT THEIR TRAPS!

Secondly, only a frustrated bhangi like you comes to Chowk with alternate nicks. For all my faults, I havent sunk to that level!

Zakk #56

I thought it was quite obvious from my article that I do not believe in contributions to political parties--I would rather give the money to charitable organizations. And so to answer your question, no I have never contributed to political parties, but yes, I have exercised my right to vote, although I do not see how it is relevant to anything.

Dear Ms Khan,

I am curious to know, have you ever contributed to any political party in Pakistan before or have you ever voted?

Ali87
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{{hmmm.... what exactly are you cheering??!!}}

Oh..nothing earth-shattering, sir:)

I`m just paying tribute to the educated women of Pakistan; who have written some of the most thought provoking & interesting articles AND replies on Chowk...Certainly more ``level-headed``, intelligent & incisive than most of their male counterparts.

If by some miracle, if these Pakistani women were given REAL power in Pakistan & their male counterparts SHUT THEIR TRAPS & behaved like REAL gentlemen...not just Pakistan; but the ENTIRE S.Asia would be a better place to live in.

Just so that people dont accuse us from drifting from the topic...
Yo! Pakis! If you cant elect women to REAL power...( & BB did NOT have REAL power, in my er ``unexpert`` opinion; nor do the ``token`` women of Mushy`s parliament)....give money to Imran...OK?! How & why the heck should he invest Jewish money in Pakistani politics, hahn?!

Yaar, its a sad commentary on your country that the most promising potential leader of Pakistan got only ONE seat!! Just goes to show that majority of Pakistanis dont believe in blindly idolising good-looking guys....(though, it seems, many of them like the bearded fuks in the MMA!!)..

Only Polyanna Romair has the skill to spin this into something positive. Any sane person would have been very depressed after the party he supported got the crap kicked out of it! ...but not Romair...he`s ENERGISED!!:))

Yeah yeah...Nostradamus Romair thinks his ``analysis`` of the future will always come true..I mean, the thing he looooves to do more than anything else is to proclaim to all us pessimisstic dimwits----I TOLD YOU SO!!!

BTW, Ali-saheb, I agree with your post...infact, I learnt a lot from it--thanks!

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#51 by GhalibZaman on December 23, 2002 6:59pm PT
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Hi Ayesha,

I went through your article, would like to mention here that positive criticism should have been much better. Article seems tilds more towards the personal criticism, rather then giving your opinion and advise what can be acheived in future by Imran as a politican and for his political career.

Most of the people who have not supported any political parties before are coming up and supporting Imran, reason being that Imran gives HOPE to the people that our overall system is going to get better, Inshallah. Though the things in Pakistan may not look bright now, future uncertain, but there is always a hope.

One of the dreamers, dream would be to attain politican system without corruption. Hopefully Imran can acheive this immpossible to be.

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hamidm2...I totally agree with what you suggested i.e.
>>.....wouldn`t it be better if muslims of all shades and persuasions were >>accepted as being muslims without trying to excommunicate or >>marginalize people who don`t meet the strict criteria set by the ultra >>orthodox?
I think a lot of Islam is the way one interprets it which maybe vastly different than for example Moududi`s tafseer...doesnt mean one is right or one is wrong. At the end of the day each of us will be judged by our deeds and by the clarity of our conciense.

FJ..so sorry that you are only going to the great city of London for a few days. From your previous email I was under the impression that you would be in London the first week in Jan? If we cannot hookup in London maybe we can meet in Florida instead...where its nice and warm

#25 by shankar on December 21, 2002 11:57pm PT
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If I`m right....I`m sure glad there actually are some Pakistani shernis, who have metaphorically ripped off their burkha & said ``fuks`` in public!
Way to go! Hon!..
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hmmm.... what exactly are you cheering??!!

My understanding of Pakistani politics is little. But is there any collective long term vision within pakistan as to how it should progress.. Last time I heard about some thing like this was Bhutto with his thousand year war.

Seriously. In India the current economic acctivity is lead by the IT industry, The pharma industry,to some extent the consumer goods Industry and may be few heavy industries like petrochemical Industry.

However before the private sector could exploit the opportunites presented before it Nehru had a vision(Much maligned though now a days) he laid the foundation of the Large industries in all sectors and harped much on self reliance. By late sixtes with imported soviet technology India was a asian leader in quite a few industries notably steel etc.

however a failure to adapt and nehrus death and subsequent political trumoil with Indra gandhi coming to power and the oppositon by the other older leaders and subsequent disastrous growth of personality politics because of Indra Gandhi`s isolation just about pushed the economic and growth agenda to pure politics. This led to a nearly 2 decade of downturn in all feilds. Then came the balance of payments cricis and Manmohan Singh and his liberalisation.

This gave rise to increased contact with the MNC`s as well as investments in new industirees till then probhited both by indian entrepruners as well as MNC`s. However in my opinoin this would not have benifited India had it not been the avaialbity of Skilled Manpower available in the much Public sector Bemoths as well as Indians abroad and those churned out by the IIT`s etc.


For Instance most of the key personall in the Private Pharma companies (a very profitable Industry for India) were from the govt sector IDPL in Hydeabad. When Texas Instruments became the first MNC in software to set up officein bangalore in 1986 they recruited heavily from the IIT`s , when Motorola set up office in 1996 they recruited heavily from the public sector BEL (which has a semiconductor fab and and was a major defence contractor for electronics). Onther other hand companies such As HCL/NIIT , Infosys were driven by returning Indians started in early and mid 80s and mind you the going was not easy for them HCL wanted to import computers but had to settle for importing texas instument calculators. Infosys had to wait one and half year to get a telephone. While wipro had to do the unglamarous job of selling computers and networking before it could make its software unit viable which was initially populated by BSC and Bcom graduates with some training in IT. The present wealth and hope in India is because the middle class Indians have rallied around these industries and have benfiited directly or indirectly by them at least in hope of a better future.


My point is before all this happened there was a vision of Development by Nehru and a plan that he had which he put in action. I do not have much knowdlege of what happened in Pakistan but it looks like kashmir happend and put the Military firmly in seat and subsequently that seems the only vision that is there.. Has it been worth it in rertospect for both pakistanis as well as kashmiris?

I meet many pakistanis here they crib about the political stability as well as govt interference and may be that might be true but how many are willing to go back and set up business there?? Not many I guess.

We have many on these boards on both sides of the divide (the only line of defintion is for Islam and against islam and those sitting on the line ie the moderates) Have you considered that sponsering the education of 5 pakistanis back home will cost less than the cost of sherry(for those who drink) and less than the cost of insurance for your car.
Shouldnt you be discussing more of that instead of what is discussed here? Culture also encompasses economy.

But for the economy we too have the same type of politicans in India, The Vajpayees, modis, laloo`s , jayalalitha, sonia, etc have very little development agenda. It seems to me that the people of India(atleast a section of us)have long abandoned any expectation of help from the political elite and have taken up task for themselves.

So what exactly is your collective Vision??

yusufkhan, pleasure will be mine. How do we get in touch? My visit is dec 29th - Jan 2nd.

Fahim

[I know since the day you were born on CHOWK. O sayyen , O mulaamtee soofees you are right there in the pantheon of those mulaamtee soofees like Quaid-e-Azam, rehmut-allah illayh. They never advertised their sajdaas to earn brownie-points with the fundos and at the same time never appeared i public with a glass in hand to convince the slaves in suit-& -ties.]

Sir,
Can you translate it in English ?

#43 hamidm2

``Qafas mein mujhh sey roodaad e chmn kehtay na dr Hmdm(2)
giree hay jiss pey kl bijlee, voh meraa aashyaaN kyoon ho?``

I know since the day you were born on CHOWK. O sayyen , O mulaamtee soofees you are right there in the pantheon of those mulaamtee soofees like Quaid-e-Azam, rehmut-allah illayh. They never advertised their sajdaas to earn brownie-points with the fundos and at the same time never appeared i public with a glass in hand to convince the slaves in suit-& -ties.

With ALL our faults and shortcomings we are all simply MUSLIMS. Never ever worry what anyone considers us across the apparently great divine-divide.

``Aur kuchh din yeh dastoor e maikhaana hai, tishnaa kamee key yeh din guzar jaayeNgey
mairay saquee ko nazraiN uthhanay tO dO, jitnay khaalee hain subb jaam bhrr jaaeNgey``

wassalaam.