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Imran Khan has always drawn criticism from the so-called liberal intelligentsia in Pakistan. His stance on the infamous Lal Masjid operation is also out in the open and hasn’t gone down too well with the leftists. However, his critics have particularly vociferously condemned him after the historical political gathering he staged in Lahore on October 30 last year, perhaps because that was clear proof of his genuine popularity among the masses.

Often mocked as ‘Taliban Khan’, Imran has drawn harsh criticism for a number of policies which he and his party have consistently followed. We know that he is against military operations in Fata, he is against US drone strikes and wishes for Pakistan to disengage from the US-led war on terror. His consistent opposition to military operations, including the Lal Masjid operation, is not the result of sympathy for the intended targets but of the consequences of such operations. He says that widespread military operations lead to indiscriminate killings in the areas that are targeted by security forces and this, in turn, allows the Taliban to recruit more people to their cause. Mr Khan believes that local tribals who do not particularly believe in hardcore Taliban ideology outnumber the militants and that their support is key to putting an end to the seemingly endless war on terror.


While the merits of this policy adopted by Imran Khan can be debated, what is mind-boggling, to me at least, is how does this make him a tacit supporter of the militants or the TTP? As for drone strikes, he thinks they are immoral, illegal and counterproductive.

Drone strikes are immoral because they take out suspected militants without any evidence or a fair trial. They are illegal because the US violates Pakistan’s territorial sanctity and are counterproductive since a high ratio of civilian casualties brews up further anti-American sentiment in the country. Hence, to call Imran Khan a hypocrite or a supporter of militants on the basis of his stance on drone strikes makes little sense as his contention is that drones mostly kill civilians and fuel radicalisation.

The recent unfortunate and deplorable attack against Malala Yousufzai by the TTP (there you go, I named them) has been widely condemned by every segment of society, including Imran Khan. However, it was interesting that the day this terrible news came out, most Pakistanis on social media platforms such as Twitter were busy condemning Imran Khan and the PTI. There was little mention of how the Pakistani federal and provincial governments failed to protect Malala.

The ratio of civilian causalities may not be 98 per cent in drone strikes as stated by the Stanford report, but I personally feel ashamed that it is acceptable to Pakistani policymakers sitting in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and opinion-makers residing in Lahore and Karachi, even if this ratio were lower. I would be very upset over this if I were living in Waziristan and one can only imagine what heinous acts I would agree to commit if my family members were killed in a drone attack.

Also, if Imran Khan is dubbed pro-TTP for advocating negotiations in Fata, what would one call the dozens of political and religious parties that recently endorsed that idea at an All-Parties Conference held in Islamabad? Surely, ‘Taliban Khan’ was not holding a gun to their head. The failure of the present government to improve the law and order situation and reduce radicalisation in society is deplorable and should be vociferously highlighted in print and electronic media.
If Imran Khan’s critics started asking leading political parties even half of the questions that they ask him, we would not be in the mess that we are.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2012.
 
Some minds just can't be changed, especially those who deliberately have programmed themselves or have been programmed by someone else, to keep following their tunnel vision. They, called Qaid e Azam , kafir e Azam. Did, it stop him from making a dent ?
 
Its a rhetoric by those who dance on foreign signals and cannot see Pakistan as a state.

if he is really pro-taliban

let me ask

did he ever said that Taliban will be allowed to control the area?

did he ever said that taliban will be governing tribal area?

did he ever said that taliban's shariah will be implemented?

did he ever said that tablian will be allowed to bombard girl schools?

did he ever said that tribal area would be a launching pad to attack foreign forces in Afghanistan?

did he ever supported their ideology?

did he ever said that they would be part of the government?

Did he ever say taliban fighters will have a say in anything?

he only said that PTI wants peace in the country, and by negotiating, we will make sure the militants give up arms... !!



the fact of the matter is this government of Zardari/PPP negotiated a deal with Sufi muhammad and handed over Swat to taliban's merciless rule !!
 
IK idea for peace is failed, according to his latest interview in Capital talk he said if he become PM he will do the following things.
Withdrawal of troops, let the tribal people do the negotiations and then take action against those who are not ready to surrender arms on the other hand he said go and do Jihad in A'stan lol

We lost more than 30,000 people and loss of Billions of $$ instead of siding with people of Pakistan he wants TTP bastards to regroup and start suicide bombing in Pakistani cities.

IMO IK is strategically immature he lost good advisor's, i wonder why Shah mehmood qureshi and Javed hashmi are silent and not helping him considering his stubborn nature maybe he have already sidelined them.
 
imran khan is an idealist. he means good but his ability to manage things remains in question. i have seen some of his speeches. i envy the pakistanis of having such a charismatic leader....
but the question remains....is he an equally good manager...:pakistan::pakistan:
 
imran khan is an idealist. he means good but his ability to manage things remains in question. i have seen some of his speeches. i envy the pakistanis of having such a charismatic leader....
but the question remains....is he an equally good manager...:pakistan::pakistan:

Yes he is still to be tested, so far he has been able to gather good teams as far as SKMH, IK foundation, Namal college, cricket team is concern...

but managing the country is still to be tested... even if he delivers 25% of what he says, I think it would be job well done !!
 
Yes he is still to be tested, so far he has been able to gather good teams as far as SKMH, IK foundation, Namal college, cricket team is concern...

but managing the country is still to be tested... even if he delivers 25% of what he says, I think it would be job well done !!

cricket apart, all the other things u have mentioned are vital to the growth of a nation.....especially namal college....
to make a country strong, u have to make sure the ordinary citizens have access to good quality education.... similarly his contribution to cancer treatment in pakistan is nothing short of exemplary....where much of the treated belong to the poorest of the poor with huge subsidies ( n that too without govt help).
in one of his speeches he mentioned that we need to fight the idea of hardcore talibanisation with liberal ideas n not with carpet bombs or drones or apaches.....after all the ppl who are bombed are the citizens of this country pakistan. he also brought up the issue of revenue collection.
but most importantly he talks from the heart n not from the script.....
if he becomes the next PM, IMO, the only hindrance in good indo pak relations will be none other than indian politicians and their lethargic policies.
 
imran khan will clean sweep coming general elections...pls register your vote if u havent yet.
 
Imran Khan has always drawn criticism from the so-called liberal intelligentsia in Pakistan. His stance on the infamous Lal Masjid operation is also out in the open and hasn’t gone down too well with the leftists. ....

Just a correction please.

Imran is self-proclaimed Islamo-socialist and hence is a pakka sucha leftist, or Mullee-leftist to be precise. As per op, he is criticized by anti-Mullee-leftists.

So the fight is between the topi-walla-lefties and naked-head-lefties.


Since Imran is Islamo-socilist-leftist, he will hesitate while criticizing Islamism and related flag-bearers of Islam aka Mullees.

Why are we making it more complicated than what it should be?

Why?
 
if he becomes the next PM, IMO, the only hindrance in good indo pak relations will be none other than indian politicians and their lethargic policies.

If he comes to power there will be serious detoriation of Indo Pak relations! Whatever makes you think its good for us??????
 
cricket apart, all the other things u have mentioned are vital to the growth of a nation.....especially namal college....
to make a country strong, u have to make sure the ordinary citizens have access to good quality education.... similarly his contribution to cancer treatment in pakistan is nothing short of exemplary....where much of the treated belong to the poorest of the poor with huge subsidies ( n that too without govt help).
in one of his speeches he mentioned that we need to fight the idea of hardcore talibanisation with liberal ideas n not with carpet bombs or drones or apaches.....after all the ppl who are bombed are the citizens of this country pakistan. he also brought up the issue of revenue collection.
but most importantly he talks from the heart n not from the script.....
if he becomes the next PM, IMO, the only hindrance in good indo pak relations will be none other than indian politicians and their lethargic policies.

I am much pleased by your understanding of the man's character... he is a doer and he can turn the tables around... the more the support the easier his task...
 
On the plus side, Imran is the only guy who is admired by different ethnicities of Pakistan.

1. Who could come into Altaf-mota-chor house, and steal his followers
2. Who could go to Lahore and steal PML-N,O,P,Q votes
3. Who could go to Sindh and steal Zardari 10%'s votes (as if it was difficult to begin with)
4. Who could go to KP and steal votes from Mullees and ANP.
5. Oh and before I forget Balochis like him too.

In all this, THREE huge questions (all related to each other) hang like sword on the head of Imran and his blind poodles.


A. Can he convert his appeal to a solid on-the-ground infrastructure that would translate into majority votes. His internet poodle warriors sitting in UK and USA and Canada won't count. The test will be in the rural heartlands of Punjab, Sindh, KP and Balochistan.

B. If and and when he does win would he be allowed to form a government by the chors of PML, PPP, MQM, and ANP. Because all these chor parties combined will definitely have the majority seats in national assembly, even when TI may have largest single party seats.

C. if he forms a government, then how would he translate his Islamo-Socialist agenda into something practical for Pakistani economy.


It is the point C, that worries the non-partisan "realists" of Pakistan.

For those who don't know our history, Islamo-socialism failed during Zulfi Bhutto's time, and failed miserably, taking the fast progressing Pakistani economy with him.

Zulfi's daughter BB again tried Islamo-socialism after NS's first stint, and again our economy went further down the gutter. So much so that even hard core industrialists like NS said good bye to the free market policies and adopted Islamo-socialist agenda the next time around during his second stint. Phir the Pakistani economy ki maan he mar gai.


Imran refuses to learn from all this, and continues to play "baja" of Islamo-socialism. If you doubt me, watch his youtube video interview with Turkish guy.

In that interview it was strange to see how two Marxists were having intellectual orgasms about the so called "welfare" state.

Oh baba,

How on earth will you pay for the welfare state. Let me give you some idea. To have a welfare state like Denmark, Pakistan would need to have a budget of 6000 billion dollars a year. With our current budget of 30 billion dollars, and perhaps a corruption of another 30, we have at most 60 billion a year available. Will Imran get this difference of 5940 billions from his @rse?

OK Den-Ma-Ruk may be at the top of all the welfare states, so let's consider a measly (in comparison) welfare state of UK, Pakistan will need to spend almost 3000 billion dollars a year.

So Mr. Irman, don't lie to me, do not kid me, instead tell me from where you will get the 1000s of billions of dollars every year for at least 6 years of your rule, to fulfill your false promises? From where? by opening more government run monopolies? or printing Pakistani rupee by the trillions. If that's the case, PPP is already doing it.


Now let me share the super secret of Islamic welfare state of Khalifa -Rashid. Back then, Muslims collected little in self-imposed taxes. So how on earth Hazrat Umar rah (or other Khulafa) run his welfare state?

Like any welfare state of his time! off course by raiding the neighboring states and looting their state treasuries. I say state treasuries because Muslims are supposed not to loot ordinary civilians living in the enemy state. Oh no. Not at all. But the state treasuries of the enemy were fair game.

Muslims should read their history to see how the war booty or "maal-e-ghaneemat" was the key to funding the so-called Islamic welfare state.

What is ghaneemat anyways? it comes from the origin, called "ghanem" means sheep or goat.

Thus maal-e-ghaneemat was meant to explain that Arab beduins would loot the other tribe's goats and sheep, bring them home, and have a big meat party in the tent full of their own tribe that had big banner "welcome brothers, welcome to the welfare state".


If Imran or his poodles are serious, they must show how they will collect 1000s of billions of dollars every year from Pakistani citizens, so as to fund this utopia called "Islamo-socialist welfare state".

Otherwise this is the biggest cr@p-wash since the time of Zulfi Bhutto, who like Imran took Pakistanis to a foolish land called Islamo-socialism welfare state, and in process destroyed every bank, school, college, and factory of Pakistan. Every fing factory was looted in the name of welfare state.

peace
 
I am much pleased by your understanding of the man's character... he is a doer and he can turn the tables around... the more the support the easier his task...

lets hope we see better times in our lifetime
 
lets hope we see better times in our lifetime

I seriously hope the same... keep up the positive attitude...and keep converting people from your side and my side to this positivity, so will I... God bless both nations/neighbourers
 
We hav fought this war for more then a decade now and frankly we cannot win it (how many more deacdes ...how many more soliders can we sacrifice ...this is just a bottomless sink hole)... only way is to negotiate with Taliban ... now it might offend some but Taliban r here to stay and Imran is right that we must alienate them and let them b dealt with by the Tribals ...Those who plead for operation don't know what will come our way if we start this operation we hav done them before and the unending spree of suicide bombings would rain hell for citizens and soliders alike. Ask anyone out in the street and its almost a unanimous opinion .No wonder media is airing USAID advertisements every now and then and paving way for such an operation through devoid-of-intelligence analysts and dubious anchors.
 
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