Imran Khan should be worried

[mingle]

Looks like you haven't been to Punjab.

NS can

Whose responsibility to look after media?

Whose responsibility to look after media?

Whose responsibility to look after media?

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[Azog]

Imran has been incompetent

There is something wrong with his leadership, despite so many scandals and controveries of PML N it still enjoys the most support in Punjab.

 

[Tameem]

PMLN is recovering ... If the current momentum continues, PMLN will likely emerge as an even more powerful political force after 2018 elections .... The establishment wants "CPEC" project to proceed smoothly at all costs and that would be easier under PMLN government .. No one, including China, wants to take any risks ...

Grapes are Sour!

The Sharifs understand the goats that make up most of Pakistan, they understand the general ignorance and IQ that fuels the region that basically has fought for any foreign ruler or mercenary as long as the price is right

You need to Increase your IQ! General Masses are more Wise and far-sighted then you think of themselves.

Imran Khan should be worried
By Fahd Husain
Published: January 21, 2018
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PTI Chairman Imran Khan. PHOTO: REUTERS

Next week it is going to be six months since Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court and ordered to undergo a trial. That day — Friday July 28th, 2017 — was heralded as the beginning of the end of the Sharif dynasty. That day Imran Khan was heralded as the prime minister-in-waiting and the PTI officially became the party to beat in the elections of 2018. That day it was predicted that the fracturing and splintering of the PML-N was only a matter of time and the powers that be had decided Sharifs’ hold on party and power had reached its expiry date. That day it was also internalised as a new reality that politics would be done according to a script and no one would be allowed to go off it.

That was then. Six months later it appears things have gone off script.

As Imran Khan stood on the Charing Cross stage earlier this week and stared at a sea of empty chairs, he must have thought how long six months can be. On July 28th, 2017 no one could have imagined that only six months later the combined ‘might’ of Khan’s PTI, Zardari’s PPP and Tahirul Qadri’s PAT would be unable to pull off a successful jalsa in the heart of Lahore. This was not how the situation was supposed to unfold; this was not how fates were expected to unfurl.

Something somewhere had gone horribly wrong.

The N party did not rupture. The Sharif family did not split. The Nawaz-Maryam trial did not produce a smoking gun. The Panama verdict did not stand the test of time too well. The Panama issue did not retain its damaging efficacy. The by-elections in Punjab did not vote in PTI candidates. Nawaz did not escape into exile. The Shahid Khaqan government did not fall on its sword. The Hudaibiya case did not come to fruition. Shehbaz Sharif did not fall victim to either Hudaibiya or the Baqir Najfi report. The technocratic government did not proceed beyond being a bad idea. And the container revolution threatened by the maverick from Canada never materialised — finally fizzling out with a whimper that January evening on Charing Cross.

Something somewhere had gone horribly wrong.

And while this something was proceeding to go wrong, some rather unexpected things began to transpire. Khan, Khanistas and the roving (and depleting) hordes of Qadri were so busy heaping scorn on the Sharifs, they failed to notice that the narrative aggressively being peddled by Nawaz and Maryam had slowly began to find traction. ‘Panama and Iqama’ were repeated so many times in so many places with so many variations that they began to elicit nods. The defiance of Nawaz — considered foolish and dangerous by most — began to pay dividends. Here was a new narrative being weaved around a leader who said he had been wronged by the system and he would fight back. It was a narrative that painted Nawaz as the underdog even as his party occupied the corridors of power at the Centre and Punjab. And it was a narrative that played the victim card (“mujhe kyon nikala — why did you oust me”) while branding Imran Khan as the ‘ladla’ (darling) of the powers that be. In essence, this well-thought out narrative aimed at persuading the PML-N base voter that Nawaz was wronged by a system that ganged up against him and Imran Khan willingly sat in their lap to do their bidding.

This fight back had a ripple effect across the political landscape. First it kept the party intact because the fence sitters calculated that while Nawaz’s battery was low, he still carried a battery pack with him. Second, it kept the family intact despite murmurs of discontent from the Shehbaz camp. If the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine was indeed choreographed by the two brothers, it managed to keep the brittleness of the narrative from reaching a breaking point. Third, it allowed Maryam to take the war into the enemy camp with a heavy fusillade of speeches and tweets which betrayed no sign of compromise, concession or accommodation. Hers was a no-holds-barred assault on anyone and everyone who was considered responsible for her father’s ouster. This relentless verbal shelling started to push the opposing camp into a defensive mode.

The first signs were occasional remarks by judges followed by the famous ‘Baba Rehmat’ speech by the chief justice. Then gradually the opposition parties started pushing back against the Nawaz and Maryam narrative. Pushing back? When did Nawaz’s ‘fight back’ turn into the Opposition’s ‘push back’? A gradual shift had taken place with the hunted becoming the hunter. Nawaz had a narrative. His opponents had a verdict. It was a political mismatch.

Yes it was a mismatch because Nawaz owned the narrative that was simple and tailor-made for political slanging. His opponents had the verdict but the verdict was legal and it was weak. And the more Imran peddled the verdict, the more he substantiated the Nawaz narrative that he was a ‘ladla’. The more Imran tried to occupy the high moral ground, the more he struggled after the disqualification of Jehangir Tareen for not being a ‘Sadiq and Ameen’.

Meanwhile Nawaz was here, there and everywhere. He spoke at massive jalsas, he spoke after each court appearance and he spoke at the Punjab House. His every word was recorded, whatsapped and telecast across TV and mobile screens. At every place he said the same thing again and again and again. Drip, drip, drip went the message into the hearts and minds of his voters: he was still here, he was still fighting, he was still in command.

But the Opposition threatened mass agitation. They whispered that the situation was fertile for the overthrow of the government and the democratic coup in Balochistan was evidence enough that Nawaz could bleed. The threat was potent. The fiasco at Lahore’s Charing Cross put an end to it. The hunters were now being hunted.

It will be six months this week from the day that Nawaz was ousted and left for dead. Six long months later he is drawing crowds and the Opposition is not. Six months later Nawaz is ratcheting up his narrative and readying for the elections while Khan is still relying on his old rants. Six months later the situation is not what it was expected to be.

Imran Khan should be worried.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2018.

More then IK, Its the Establishment herself who is worried at this very moment.
They Kick-out finally NS from Chair; But after Six Months he is Everywhere.

The problem with the mindset is they are not opposing NS, they actually hates NS.
And when you hate someone, you cease to respect opponents strengths in your share hate and eventually beaten up by the same traits you ignored in the first place.

 

[SQ8]

Grapes are Sour!



You need to Increase your IQ! General Masses are more Wise and far-sighted then you think of themselves.



More then IK, Its the Establishment herself who is worried at this very moment.
They Kick-out finally NS from Chair; But after Six Months he is Everywhere.

The problem with the mindset is they are not opposing NS, they actually hates NS.
And when you hate someone, you cease to respect opponents strengths in your share hate and eventually beaten up by the same traits you ignored in the first place.

Yawns at the personal attempt, acts to ban from thread for trying to be cheesy with admin.. success.

Best reply to people who put a persom above their country.

 

[Sugarcane]

I am from Lahore Pakistan.
If you want to impress by your comment that Lahore is some very big metropolitan city or Punjab is a very modern developed province, sadly bro please wake up .
If you have ever been to Europe, Us , Chinese cities or even some Indian ones (I hate to admit this) only then you can realize what kind of shithole we live in.

Yeah I can totally understand the mindset of uneducated poor classes having almost medivial thinking, who can sell their vote for a mere plate of donkey Biryani ... People who are not able to decide what to eat, would decide for our country's future and this is the result.
I know pmln still have chance.
I trust donkey meat eating shitheads, I have full trust in them. They would vote pmln. They would.
They fear change.
Besides they don't deserve anything good.
I refer to this situation as: jaisi qom Waisa hukmaran '....this corrupt, jahil, lair nation deserve leadership like pmln.

Your previous and this posts simply suggests that you aren't from Lahore, even if you are by any chance than you don't have exposure to people outside your family, friends and social media.

But anyway, Education is an over rated thing. You can find as much educated morons as much the uneducated poor who will sell the vote who are corrupt or serve the interests of corrupts.

 

[I.R.A]

As long as NS has Maryam on his side ........ there is no coming back for him.

PTI mutated into Peerni To Imran ......... soon people like Asad Umer will realise it.

The real winners are SS and CN ........

 

[Thanatos]

Selective accountability practically handed the next election to Nawaz Sharif in advance. Good news for Imran Khan that the main establishment is working overnight. So anything can happen in the last min.

Thats the only hope for IK. Otherwise PML n will win. I think no matter what we say here on such forums, fact of the matter is PML n has fulfilled its promises, thats what public votes for.

 

[Menace2Society]

This Pakistan is too dumb and stupid for ethical politics. Perhaps the next generation.

 

[Syed1.]

Grapes are Sour!



You need to Increase your IQ! General Masses are more Wise and far-sighted then you think of themselves.



More then IK, Its the Establishment herself who is worried at this very moment.
They Kick-out finally NS from Chair; But after Six Months he is Everywhere.

The problem with the mindset is they are not opposing NS, they actually hates NS.
And when you hate someone, you cease to respect opponents strengths in your share hate and eventually beaten up by the same traits you ignored in the first place.

Stop eating donkey meat.

 

[Lucky Breeze]

Give respect to the voters and take vote. Otherwise IK is going to be the new air of Qazi Hussain Ahmad's legacy. Just leader of a pressure group nothing else.

His two companions Tahir ul qadri and sheikh rasheed have already taken the place of Nawab zada nasrullah and pir pagarah.

 

[Finer]

Ro ley munna ro ley

Did you even read the post?

Who am i kidding with!!! ... Maybe your wife is smart choice to converse with for grown-up civilized debate since you follow the leader who now follows the lady.

Why establishment working for pti when they used to support NS.?

Small correction. Used to is the past tense. Now Imran Khan is lackey of the main establishment caught undermining the already vulnerable democracy in the eyes of the public who prefers democracy over Marshall Law.

 

[Winchester]

What a horrible disappointment Imran Khan has turned out to be. At the end he is just content with being nothing but a pawn in the Establishment vs Nawaz game.

Sheikh Rasheed has brought him down to his level.

 

[ejaz007]

Stop eating donkey meat.

Stop following donkey.

 

[Zibago]

Did you even read the post?

Who am i kidding with!!! ... Maybe your wife is smart choice to converse with for grown-up civilized debate since you follow the leader who now follows the lady.



Small correction. Used to is the past tense. Now Imran Khan is lackey of the main establishment caught undermining the already vulnerable democracy in the eyes of the public who prefers democracy over Marshall Law.

You wrote bs when your username was fallenking you write bs with zero evidence nothing changed except more evidence against Nawaz and decleration of Imran Khan as honest by the SC
You can cry all you want thougg there is no restriction on that
Zia ka ladlay ka career khatam

Stop following donkey.

I am pretty sure he doesnot follow Abid Sher Ali or Nawaz Sharif

What a horrible disappointment Imran Khan has turned out to be. At the end he is just content with being nothing but a pawn in the Establishment vs Nawaz game.

Sheikh Rasheed has brought him down to his level.

You have any proof of any so called sazish?No proof but words from someone who praises Mujib Ur Rehman

Imran has been incompetent

There is something wrong with his leadership, despite so many scandals and controveries of PML N it still enjoys the most support in Punjab.

If you look at Modi and Trump Pakistan will make more sense to you

 

[ejaz007]

You wrote bs when your username was fallenking you write bs with zero evidence nothing changed except more evidence against Nawaz and decleration of Imran Khan as honest by the SC
You can cry all you want thougg there is no restriction on that
Zia ka ladlay ka career khatam
I am pretty sure he doesnot follow Abid Sher Ali or Nawaz Sharif
You have any proof of any so called sazish?No proof but words from someone who praises Mujib Ur Rehman
If you look at Modi and Trump Pakistan will make more sense to you

That is the problem he follows IK.