@ Santro and PAFAce
With all due respect,instead of passing smart a** comments,it's about time that intellectuals like you should abandon their luxury and really try to participate in active politics to turn things around. It is really easy to churn out pearls of wisdom from behind a computer screen.
Imran Khan is the only man, who was given a clean chit by the Wiki leaks.He talked about justice when no one gave a hoot about it, and now everyone says that without justice, be it economic or social, Pakistan can not prosper.The things that he has done as a philanthropist far exceed than those done by any other political party . Look up NAMAL college that he has built in his home constituency,you'll have an idea. Despite all of that, Imran Khan is by no means the perfect man but he is the right man. He desperately needs a political think-tank to help him and PTI on several political issues. He surely does not has the same charisma as ZAB, but he says the right things and has shown the mantle and courage to walk the talk as well. PTI seriously needs a Media cell for effective Media Perception Management, MQM has done a good job at that. He does not posses the absolute political acumen,but if given a chance, with time he will learn. The mistakes that he has made or will make, will be mistakes of the heart and not the head.
If, you still can't find a good enough reason to put your bets on this man, then you are welcome to go back to the same old people who are tried,tested and failed.We have elected all the wrong people in the last 60 years, why not give Imran Khan a chance as well. What is the worse that can happen? We will get shafted once more, I think by now we are quite adapt to that.
@ Pak Marine
My friend, anyone who has spent any time in KHi knows how MQM or most of the parties who have their vote bank in KHI,do their politics.You can have paramilitary forces every half a kilometer but if they do no have orders to act, they are useless.The big cantonments and bases do not have jurisdiction in civil areas, they only operate within the premises of their bases/cantonments.Karachi University has Rangers deployed in it,but they don't do crap because they are politically controlled.Recently exams were postponed in KU, because a student political organization threatened the administration that if the exams were conducted as scheduled and i quote" hum woh karin gi jo pora Pakistan tu kia pori dunya dekhe gi". That organization was none other than APMSO, the student wing of MQM.
Let me tell you something that happened to me personally, me and my friends opened up a restaurant and about after a month, MQM activists came to our restaurant with a pre-charged receipt of Rs 50.000.We had to pay them because in their golden words" Ap ko bhi yahin rehna hai aur humain bhi,behtar hai pyar say rahin". They were not the only one though, Sunni Tehrik took their share of Rs.217 and ANP walked away with second prize of Rs.15,000.They all do this every six months and on all the festivals. Come by my restaurant anytime and I will be glad to show you the receipts.