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SUSPENSION OF CAMPAIGN IN HONOUR OF IMRAN KHAN IS AN HOUR OF GLORY FOR PAKISTAN’S POLITICAL PARTIES

Posted by admin in IMRAN KHAN, IMRAN KHAN-PAKISTAN'S HERO & DREAMER on May 8th, 2013

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Pakistan vote campaign halts over Imran Khan injury

By Waqar Hussain (AFP) 

images-23LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s main parties on Wednesday suspended campaigning for weekend polls in honour of politician Imran Khan, who was in hospital with head and back injuries after falling at an election rally.

Television footage showed the retired cricket star and head of the Pakistan Movement for Justice party (PTI) flat on his back in a hospital bed, wearing a neck brace, looking pale and groggy after his fall in the city of Lahore.

Doctors have advised one week’s rest, throwing the rest of his campaign for Saturday’s election into jeopardy, but say his injuries are not life-threatening.

A televised statement that Khan gave from his bed overnight, urging people to vote for his party, has since been re-released as a “paid content” advertisement for his PTI party, seeking to tap into a sympathy vote.

“I did whatever I could for this country. Now remember 11th May, come out and vote for PTI without considering its candidates, just vote for PTI,” the 60-year-old said in a weak voice.

Hospital spokesman Khawaja Nazir told AFP that Khan had one main head injury, two “fractures” to his back and a small injury to his shoulder.

“There is nothing serious to his injuries. He is in a private room, he is not in the ICU (intensive care unit). He has been shifted from the ICU to a private room,” Nazir told AFP.

Doctors are expected to provide a further update on his condition at 0900 GMT, but Nazir said that he has been “initially advised one week rest”.

Shafqat Mehmood, a spokesman for Khan’s PTI party, acknowledged that the injuries could stop Khan appearing at any further election rallies.

“It is clear that general campaign will continue, but Imran Khan may not appear in the rallies now, we will have to see the doctors’ advice,” he said.

Mehmood told AFP that other men who fell from the lift with Khan were “fine” and were back home with their families with only minor injuries.

Khan, who won only one seat in 2002 and boycotted polls in 2008, has led an electric campaign, galvanising the middle class and young people in what he has called a “tsunami” of support that will propel him into office.

Saturday’s vote will mark a democratic milestone in a country ruled for half its history by the military, as the first time a civilian government has served a full term and handed over to another through the ballot box.

Khan’s main rival, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is tipped to win the election, called off campaigning on Wednesday and conveyed his sympathies.

“Nawaz Sharif decided to suspend all his election campaign-related engagements scheduled for today,” PML-N spokesman Siddiqul Farooq told AFP.

“Sharif had plans to address several rallies in Punjab but they have been cancelled now. We have not given any advertisements against PTI, we are running a positive campaign,” he added.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which controls Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi, also announced on Twitter its leader Altaf Hussain, who is in self-exile in London, would not address supporters by telephone due to Khan’s condition.

Khan’s fall was the latest dramatic twist to an election campaign that has been overshadowed by a series of attacks on politicians and political parties which have killed 111 people since mid-April, according to an AFP tally.

The Pakistani Taliban have condemned the polls as un-Islamic and directly threatened the outgoing ruling party, the secular Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and its main coalition partners, the MQM and the Awami National Party.

On Wednesday, a suicide bomber killed two people and wounded 23 others outside a police station in the northwestern district of Bannu, police said.

A female civilian and a policeman were killed when the suicide car bomber crashed into a barrier outside the station, local police chief Abdul Ghafoor Afridi told AFP.

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PHOTOS: Imran’s Photo hung In Chicago. USA

Posted by Brave_Heart in IMRAN KHAN, IMRAN KHAN-PAKISTAN'S HERO & DREAMER, Ray of Hope-Imran Khan, Roshan Pakistan on May 7th, 2013

 

 

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May 11 Elections are Landmark

Posted by qinsarfaraz in Ray of Hope-Imran Khan on May 7th, 2013

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May 6, 2013

May 11 Elections are Landmark

 

By Saeed Qureshi

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The May 11 elections will herald a genuine democratic era in Pakistan. The holding of elections by itself is a landmark accomplishment and a laudable threshold for the onset of a thus elusive democratic order. While the country  is caught up in spiraling diabolic lawless and violence, it would be after a pretty  long authoritarian spell that the dawn of a representative governance born by the popular vote, would shine at the land and smile at the people of Pakistan.

Powered by the popular mandate, the government in power would be fully competent and legitimate within her right to translate their pledges into concrete outcomes on the ground. The power belongs to the people and that phrase has been truly practiced and reinforced after a lull of long night of darkness and uncertainty. The new era is not going to be “God’s kingdom on earth”. But certainly it is going to be a harbinger and a prelude to a better future for a nation suffering so long at the hands of inept and self-seeking leaders.

By all reckoning there is going to be a hung mandate which means that no single party would be able to form a government. As such one can visualize that the regime coming to the fore would be a coalition government.

The army’s role in these unsettling and fragile times has been sober, modest and detached. Otherwise there always was the enticing bait for the army to step in and capture power. General Kiani has to be genuinely commended for keeping the army away from the trapping of intervention on the pretext of bridling appalling lawlessness and curbing incessant violence that is still rife.

The outgoing PPP regime deserves a genuine credit for holding elections in face of overwhelming odds and the looming specter of army takeover.  The media and judiciary of Pakistan also deserve huge applause and generous approbation for dispensing a pioneering and historic role during most murky times. Both these arms of civil society have been berated and occasionally maligned for demonstrating partisanship. But truthfully they deserve the entire nation’s gratitude for serving their respective role and responsibilities in an aggressive and befitting manner.

The newly saddled government would be faced with some of the most pressing challenges to be addressed. The ideological dissensions, the ethnic malice and bias, the inter provincial rivalries, the danger of disintegration, the broken down system of basic civic services, soaring cost of living are priority issues to be addressed immediately.

Equally indispensable is curbing the epidemic of violence and terrorism. The dire need of good governance with the dispensation of unalloyed justice, an enlightened education system, universal literacy, and the health faculties for all, a clean and pollution free environment would be another set of reforms to be put in place. But most imperative would be the empowerment of the people for making decisions at their local levels, which means creating city governments or universally recognized local bodies system.

The development and creation of a massive infrastructure, boosting the industrial sector to restore the confidence of the business community and the transparency in departments from top to bottom are indispensable ingredients for a new Pakistan to emerge and be respected domestically and aboard.

The contours of the foreign policy have to be redrawn freeing Pakistan from the external hegemony and interference. The national sovereignty and integrity should become an article of faith with the new rulers. Pakistan direly needs to disengage itself from being a crony and hireling of the international hegemonic powers.

 The economic health and prosperity is vital for the nation to come out of the morass of poverty and impoverishment. The culture of human rights, emancipation from taboos and superstition, elimination of sectarian discords and decadent fundamentalism, are priorities issues to be given urgent attention.  Access to inexpensive, prompt and equal justice and availability of abundant basic civic amenities would spruce up and groom Pakistani society and provide a modicum of dignity of life to the citizens.

The list of modernizing Pakistan and putting it on the road to progress, prosperity and stability is not exhaustive. But at least a beginning should be made for a glorious and momentous journey that would gratify the future generations more than the existing one.

The centuries old abomination of feudalism and enslavement of the downtrodden has to be rooted out once and for all. The sway and overpowering influence of parasitical and comprador classes has to be doggedly curbed. The possibility of martial law and attendant cronyism subverting the democratic order has to be decisively obviated.

The rulers and the bureaucracy have to be bound by the ethics of simple living and made accountable to every penny they spend from the tax payers’ money. The ruthless and insidious customs of exploitation of meek and marginalized by the powerful and influential segments and individuals has to be abolished.

We have to watch how after May 11, the new set up unfurls itself and how the formation of governments at federal and provincial levels come up. Would the new government, be humane tolerant and people friendly. Or else it would fall back upon serving the elite and aristocratic classes, feed party interests and filling their personal coffers? Would they earnestly make good their pledges and manifestos splashed during the electioneering campaigns.

Hopefully the upcoming leadership in Pakistan would fulfill their solemn commitments made to the nation and thus earn the honor of being trail blazers of a glorious destiny for Pakistan as well as the forerunners of an ensured resplendent future for its citizens. There is no gainsaying that Pakistan is blessed with enormous resources, immense potential and brilliant manpower to gallop on road to the progress and an all-embracing development in a much short span of time.

The writer is a US-based senior journalist, a former diplomat and editor of Diplomatic Times. His blog is www.uprightopinion.com

 

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Imran vows to break Zardari-Nawaz partnership

Posted by Brave_Heart in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on May 4th, 2013

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 The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday vowed to break the Zardari-Nawaz partnership and bring about a real change after securing victory in the May 11 general elections.

 

Addressing a mammoth public gathering in Abbottabad, he said if voted to power he would not use his position to his own advantage and would not transfer his assets out of the country. “I don’t believe in telling lies to the people for the sake of getting votes,” he maintained.

 

Terming the independent candidates as blackmailers, he urged the voters not to vote for them in the forthcoming polls.Imran promised that all-out efforts would be made to eradicate corruption after coming into power. He said the land record would be computerised to limit the role of patwaris and other revenue department officials.

 

The PTI chief said his party didn’t need to enter into an electoral alliance with any party. “The change is not coming, rather it has already arrived,” he said.

 

He said the PTI’s victory would bring an era of development and prosperity in Pakistan. He said tax evaders would be brought to book and the tax money would be spent on public welfare. He maintained that the development funds would not be utilised through the MNAs and MPAs.

 

Imran promised that the PTI would introduce a uniform educational system and the country would be made an Islamic welfare state. He said the poor would be provided inexpensive and speedy justice.

 

The PTI founder delivered a short speech that was heard by a big gathering. Meanwhile, addressing a public meeting in Mansehra, Imran Khan said he would make a new Pakistan after coming into power and bring the corrupt rulers to justice.

 

“I have been waiting for 17 years for the change and now it is going to take place on May 11. We will break the partnership of Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif as people are fed up with them,” he said.

 

Earlier, the PTI chief addressed public meetings in Oghi in Mansehra, Allai in Battagram and also in Torghar district.Imran, who declared himself a “lion-hunter”, said the enthusiasm of the youngsters would overwhelm the PML-N in Punjab.

 

He said the previous government was not sincere in addressing the energy crisis.Imran contended that making roads couldn’t put the country on the path to progress. “This country will become prosperous and developed when justice is dispensed without any discrimination and philosophy of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is implemented in letter and spirit,” he said.

 

The PTI chief said time was not far off when people would respect the green passport and the citizens from other countries would come to Pakistan for seeking employment.

 

He said if voted to power, the PTI would introduce a system on the pattern of the one enforced by the rightly-guided caliphs of Islam that brought about a revolution. “We would end corruption and uphold the rule of law as the four rightly-guided caliphs did,” Imran said.

 

Without naming Maulana Fazlur Rahman, he said that the Maulvi was not sincere and there was a stark difference between his words and his deeds due to which he couldn’t win hearts and minds of the people.

 

The PTI leaders in Hazara including Sajid Mumtaz Khan, Khurram Khan, Azam Khan Swati and Ali Asghar also spoke on the occasion.Speaking in Allai, Imran Khan said he would introduce local government system if voted to power.

 

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Imran Khan’s Latest Tweets: A Fresh Wind is Blowing in Pakistan

Posted by admin in IMRAN KHAN-PAKISTAN'S HERO & DREAMER on May 1st, 2013

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