comparing any and every thing to US is just not logical and phenomenon of such comparison is just not a pakistani thing but a world wide thing as some where we all get inspired by the lone surviving super power. my question is what has obama done so substantial other than big talk, that all of a sudden all the hopes have been pinned on him and rest on his shoulders, secondly building of so much high hopes are bound to fail some where which will probably end the honeymoon of expectations rather abruptly, so no way am i going to make that comparison between imran and obama, and as it is the circumstances under which the two work are no way similar, and neither are the personalities.
imran from all that i have heard of him on indian media, presents a liberal face of pakistan who shows sings of bettering his present contemporary. he has not shown signs of being done in by petty politics like the present day pakistani politicians and some where he has a bigger picture of nationhood that inspires his type of politics and that for me is a great sign. he is clear that rather than bombing in the nwfp, it is dialog that is of essence as those people are pakistan's own people and i think if he were to be in power he would walk his talk, and make it adequately known to the americans that there is limit and they dont go beyond a certain limit, though as an indian i would be highly perturbed by such soothing acts for the terrorists but here i comment being totally neutral.
i have not really heard him on economics or defence per se but yes he has a take on bilateral relations which certainly are encouraging but looking at the reactions one saw on the over turns made by zardari on kashmir and nuclear bombs i would be skeptical that given a chance he would he be able to do the walk the talk on this one or be hijacked by hawks whose only appetite and staple diet is to see fractured relations with india. i have heard him on social engineering and there comes some hopes which would for sure benefit that average pakistani. he has laid more stress on things like health, education, over defence or f16's as he would like to put it and when such things get spoken in any developing country there sure get a few hopes associated.
the problem as i see is the mass base that is not associated with him, and so as to find a way to the power corridors of islamabad he has to work on some formula which gets him that mass base, will that be happening without him spoiling his hands by way of doing some dirty bargains is to be seen but clearly the first quality that one looks in an inspiring leader is amiss in his style of leadership, and please do not confuse this leadership to the one that we see on the cricket fields, and for me this is where he has completely faltered. he has not shown that capability of moving people together with him when the opportunity came knocking his doors in latter half of 2007 when the dictator was to be shooed away when the pressure to conduct elections was mounting. he did a few rallies but really he more came out as a laughing stock than really anything else, so to me he is a person with mixed bag with a certain number of limitations but still some where he does represent a hope, and a hope for a better future for pakistan. a hope may be which gets built on the stuff he has spoken or a hope may because the devil has not been tried in the power corridors.
PS: i use the term devil as power does take out that evil side in you, and corrupt you a little.
