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

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Imran advised one-week rest: hospital
 

Imran Khan has been advised to rest for a week after sustaining skull and back injuries in a fall at an election campaign rally, a hospital official said Wednesday.

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The former cricket star was admitted to the private Shaukat Khanum hospital that he founded in Lahore on Tuesday after falling off a lift taking him to the stage at a rally ahead of Pakistan’s general election on Saturday.
Doctors say he needs bed rest, which could jeopardise the chances of him continuing the last days of the campaign in person, but that his injuries are not life threatening.
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, but that his condition is not serious.
“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 will brief about specifics of his injuries later in the day. I can’t explain it specifically. As far as I know, he was initially advised one week rest,” the spokesman added.
Javed Asghar, another doctor and a friend who visited Khan, told AFP that he had stitches to his head but that the injury was “not serious”.
Shafqat Mehmood, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party acknowledged that his injuries could call a halt to Khan campaigning in person.
“It is clear that general campaign will continue, but Imran Khan may not appear in the rallies now, we will have to see doctors advice,” Mehmood told AFP.
He said the other men who fell from the lift with Khan were “fine” and were back home with their families with only minor injuries.

  • Imran Khan Was Reciting Kalma e Tayyaba & Darood-e-Shareef in Ambulance While They were Taking him to Hospital !!
    MASHA ALLAH
    Sign of a True Muslim.
    Aye Allah Ma Teri Ibadat Karta hu Aur Tuj sa Madad Mangata hu.
     
     
    Aye Allah Ma Teri Ibadat Karta hu Aur Tuj sa Madad Mangata hu.
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    Our Beloved Pakistani Brothers & Sisters Comments on Imran Khan’s Accident Courtesy PTI Site
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      Raiha Butt, Adi Adnan, Ashfaq Qaisar and 757 others like this.
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      NAveed ANwar عمران خان صاحب کے تمام چاہنے والوں سے گذارش ہے کہ جتنا بھی ہوسکے، ایک روپیہ یا ایک کروڑ روپیہ ہم سب عمران خان صاحب کی جان کا صدقہ دیں۔۔۔ کیونکہ صدقہ بلا کو ٹالتا ہے۔۔۔ عمران خان صاحب نے ابھی اس ملک و قوم کے لیے بہت کام کرنے ہیں۔۔ اور جس جس کے لیے ممکن ہو سکے باجماعت نماز کے بعد عمران خان کے لئے خصوصی دعا کروائیں۔۔۔ اللہ آپکو جزائے خیر عطا فرمائے۔
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      Farda Naeem prayed for him in sajda
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      Asma Areeb he is a true muslim a great leader no doublt
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      Ashfaq Khan Obviously!
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      Seemi Ali inshallah, I already did.
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      Tariq Amin zaror dain gay
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      PTI the New Face of Pakistan May Allah! grant quick recovery to IMRAN KHAN and keep him in His best protection and save him from all kind of dangers…..Aaamin

      IK! we are with you and yours idea of new Pakistan.Insha Allah!yours dream will come true……………Aj
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      Beeba Munda Great leader plz pray for him
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      Farhan Ali Get Well Soon Imran Khan Our Prayers Are With You Pakistan Need You Please Take Care Your Self
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      Asma Salamat Nazar nahi lagi Noon League ki sazash hay, ussay dhakka dia gaya. qatal karnay ki koshish ki gai.
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      Usman Ahmad Khan khan hota ha ALLAH BLESS U
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      Maha Mir mashaallah a true muslim leader
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      Mir Afridi U r a true muslim IK.
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      Mareena Malik Allah hmary leadr k0 jald sehat yab kry. . Ameen
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      Muzammil Khan nazar lag gayi imran khan ko
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      Rumani Afridi yaa Allah hamaray leader ko sehat ata farmaye
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      عرفان صفدر Girtey hain Shehsawar he Maidan-e-Jang
      main. Get well soon Imran bhai… 
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      Imran Shokte AMEEN
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      Normal Person IN SHA ALLAH,
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      Panjtan Ko Salam MAA SHAA ALLAH
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      Princes Sara MashaAllah. Allah paak hamare hero ka saya hamesha hamare sar pe salamat rakhay ameen. Or unhay un k har mission mai kamyab karay Ameen sumAmeen
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Peter Oborne, Telegraph ,UK – The men behind Imran Khan’s bid to lead Pakistan-

Posted by malika in British Terrorist MQM Don Altaf Hussain, BUNGLER NAWAZ SHARIF, CIA AGENT NAWAZ SHARIF, Pakistan Fights Terrorism, Ray of Hope-Imran Khan on May 7th, 2013

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The men behind Imran Khan’s bid to lead Pakistan

Could the former cricketer really become Pakistan’s next prime minister? As the country’s critical election approaches, Peter Oborne meets Imran Khan’s most powerful weapon: his cabinet

Imran Khan head of opposition political party Tehrik-e-Insaf speaks to supporters during a 'peace march' against US drone attacks in Tank district, 2012.

Imran Khan head of opposition political party Tehrik-e-Insaf speaks to supporters during a ‘peace march’ against US drone attacks in Tank district, 2012.  Photo: EPA
 

By Peter Oborne

7:00AM BST 19 Apr 2013

 

Gathered around a table in a room in Islamabad, a group of 20 men are engaged in vigorous debate. The qualifications for a seat at the table are formidably high. One of the men isPakistan’s most respected industrialist; another is a highly successful broadcaster; a third, one of the country’s best knownpolitical campaigners. And at the head of the table, elegantly clad in a shalwar kameez and listening attentively to each of the arguments, is the most famous Pakistani in the world: the cricket-captain-turned-political-leader, Imran Khan.

In less than four weeks, Khan hopes to be prime minister. Sixteen years after forming his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) or Pakistan’s Movement for Justice, the man responsible for countless improbable victories on the cricket field believes he can secure the biggest win of his life at the general election on May 11.

“It will be a clean sweep,” he has declared. “It is only a question of whether it will be a simple majority, or if we will get two-thirds.”

Once in power he’s promising to transform the country, bring an end to corruption and rescue the economy. His first move will be to close down the lavish prime-ministerial palace and set up office in his hilltop bungalow.

But is victory really within his grasp? Political analysts say the system is against him. Both of the two main parties – the Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan People’s Party – have networks of patrons and “feudal” landlords that control the votes of large swathes of the rural population. And the current president, Asif Ali Zardari, still benefits from the very powerful political inheritance of his late wife Benazir Bhutto and her father, Zulfikar Ali.

 
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Yet, as one travels the country, there is a fervour surrounding the Khan campaign that is impossible to ignore. A recent poll gave Khan a 70 per cent approval rating, compared with 14 per cent for Zardari. His rallies are like rock concerts, attracting a young crowd pumped up by Khan’s attacks on the country’s elite and his calls for a new style of politics. Pakistan’s Newsweek has even invoked the spirit of Barack Obama: “Yes He Khan”, it declares.

Of course, Khan has his critics. They cite his lack of experience (the PTI has only ever gained one of the 272 elected seats in the National Assembly, which Khan held for a brief period) and dismiss him as a creator of slogans, with no practical programme for government or any heavyweight personnel.

I travelled to Pakistan to test these claims and to meet the inner circle that surrounds Khan. I moved widely across the country, joined the crowds at one of his rallies and went behind the scenes for private meetings. My objective was not to meet Khan himself; my mission was to probe the men and women who advise him. Above all, I was eager to find out whether Khan really has created a genuine political movement with a programme for this troubled country. As far as Khan’s inner circle is concerned, it soon became clear that, while his enemies have been busy lobbing accusations of political incompetence, Khan has assembled a crack team of advisers featuring some of Pakistan’s most erudite, powerful and influential men; men who could be enjoying an easy life outside politics but whose sense of commitment to their country has persuaded them to join Khan.

Asad Umar, President of Engro Corporation, March 16, 2011. (Reuters)

The 60-year-old’s biggest coup was landing Asad Umar. Now PTI’s senior vice-president and election organiser, Umar was the chief executive of Engro, one of Pakistan’s biggest conglomerates, and, reportedly, the country’s best-paid businessman. Between 2004 and 2012 he lifted company revenues from £94 million to £768 million. If PTI wins, he is tipped to occupy an economics post.

In the party’s modest office in Lahore, I ask Umar why he joined Khan. It was, he says, a long courtship which began several years ago in a television studio. “As [Khan] was taking off his clip he turned to me and said in Urdu: ‘You are wasting your time, you should come and join us,’” says Umar. Several years later he attended a business conference where Khan was speaking. In reply to one question from the floor he said: “The day people like Asad Umar come and join us is the day we become successful.” But the wooing started in earnest in late 2011 when Umar received a text message from Khan which read: “This is the year of the revolution, and you cannot continue to stand on the sidelines. You have to take the plunge.”

Umar says that he then engaged in an intense dialogue with the ex-cricketer. “I’m testing him again and again on his commitment to the new Pakistan, to find out whether he really understands what it takes.” He says that the clinching moment came when he asked Khan whether he realised that PTI’s plans for tax reform would mean some of PTI’s own donors being forced to pay taxes. (At present less than one per cent of the country pays their taxes, and even an incredible 70 per cent of MPs do not do so.) Khan replied that, yes, he was aware of the consequences. Shortly afterwards Umar resigned from Engro and joined the party.

“The Pakistan state has been captured by the elite,” he tells me. “The state is not collecting taxes from the rich and powerful and not spending money on the welfare of the people. Some 25 million children of school age don’t go to school, and 1,000 children below the age of two die every day because of malnutrition and lack of health care.” In government, he says, PTI “will collect taxes from the rich and powerful [and] there will be unprecedented increases in social spending, in particular for the education of girls.”

 

Such social reforms would bring the PTI in conflict with thePakistani Taliban who infamously left 15-year-old schoolgirlMalala Yousafzai for dead in October last year after she asserted her right to go to school. But, even though Khan was quick to visit Malala in hospital, critics have accused him of toning down his criticism of the Taliban in order to shore up right-wing votes. The English-language weekly newspaper, The Friday Times, even features a scathing column written by “Im the Dim”, a delusional and naive former cricketer who dreams of becoming prime minister and whose tactic for dealing with terrorism is to give the terrorists what they want, “and then they’ll go away and be good till the next time they’re bad”.

But, in an interview for Time magazine last year, Khan rejected any suggestion that he had been soft on extremists. “Oh please,” he said. “Do you really think I’m going to get votes from the Taliban?” Instead, he said he was intending to target the large sector of the electorate – 56 per cent of eligible voters – who historically don’t bother to visit a polling station on election day.

His party claims 10 million registered members, a phenomenal number which makes PTI by some distance the largest political party not just in Pakistan but in the world, and Khan is the only politician in the country to have used social media on a large scale to communicate with his followers and reach out to potential supporters. He regularly tweets campaign updates and policy messages to his half-a-million followers on Twitter and hisofficial Facebook page has more than 700,000 “likes”. On my travels through Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad – Pakistan’s three greatest cities – I was struck by how many ordinary people, especially the young, insist they will vote for Khan. At rallies young men barely old enough to remember his heroics as a cricketer crowd the stage seeking autographs.

Opposition Leader David Cameron Shaking Hand with Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, 2008 (Rex Features)

But one of Khan’s other successes has been to convince the electorate he is a man of the people, despite the fact that he and many of his inner circle come from the same privileged elite they accuse of betraying the country. Khan went to Aitchison College, the Eton of Pakistan, before moving to the UK and studying at Oxford. His foreign affairs spokesman, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, also attended Aitchison.

When I visit Qureshi in his beautifully furnished home in Lahore there is a history of Aitchison College on the table in his study and a photograph of Qureshi and other students (including the Conservative politician Bernard Jenkin) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, hanging on the wall. Qureshi comes from a long line of saints, scholars, politicians and landowners, but became a populist hero in 2011 when he quit as Pakistan’s foreign minister (the equivalent of British foreign secretary) after Zardari pushed to grant immunity to a CIA agent who had shot dead two unarmed Pakistanis in Lahore.

“My view was that he was not a diplomat as the Americans claimed,” Qureshi tells me. “Mr Zardari was of the view that he should be granted diplomatic immunity.” As soon as he had resigned, he was immediately approached by Nawaz Sharif, chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).

“He said words to the effect that I can’t see a better person than you to be foreign minister of Pakistan,” says Qureshi. But he turned down the offer.

“Frankly, the way I saw things deteriorate I am convinced that this country cannot be run on the basis that it has been run. Structural changes have to be made. For the first time I feel people are genuinely worried about the future. I feel serious concerns about an existential threat to this country. We are collapsing from within.”

As well as a failing economy, Pakistan is plagued with chronic power shortages, an epidemic of local insurgencies and sectarian violence on a terrifying scale. And stable government is absolutely crucial over the next 12 months as British and American troops prepare to pull out of Afghanistan. A collapse of the Pakistan state raises unimaginable nightmares. The entire region could be dragged into a set of conflicts even more terrible than the civil war that engulfed Afghanistan after the collapse of Soviet rule in the Nineties. It would also present new opportunities for terror groups and crime syndicates from Afghanistan, trafficking drugs, weapons and people to the West. The danger of political instability are all the graver since Pakistan, like neighbouring India, holds nuclear weapons.

For Qureshi, Imran Khan’s PTI is the only party capable of guarding against these dangers. And Umar is specific about the “structural changes” required. The PTI, he says, would break up Pakistan’s centralised state.

“We need to bring power down to the grass roots level,” he tells me. “In terms of governance, we want to take it back to where it was when Jinnah was governor-general.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, died in 1948, a year after Pakistan gained her independence. Therefore Umar is effectively saying that he wants Pakistan’s system of government to return to the high standards of probity and efficiency it enjoyed at the time of British rule. One of the common themes among Khan’s inner circle is a despair at the existing two-party system and its failure to solve Pakistan’s problems.

Pakistani former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan (R) joins hands with his party leader Javed Hashmi (C)during a public meeting, 2011. (Getty Images)

Before I leave Pakistan, I conduct one final interview. It is with Khan’s political strategist, Javed Hashmi, who, I noticed, was treated with the most deference by Khan at the private meeting I attended. One of the country’s best-known public figures, Hashmi has been involved in Pakistani politics since the Sixties, when, as a student agitator, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictator Ayub Khan. In all, he has endured five long terms of imprisonment, of which the most recent was a long stretch courtesy of President Pervez Musharraf, who stepped down as Pakistan’s military ruler five years ago. Hashmi was accused of treason after criticising military rule.

Why has he joined forces with Khan?

“Bringing democracy to this country and fighting against corrupt leaders is my agenda as well as his,” Hashmi tells me. “People see [Muslim League leader] Nawaz Sharif, they see Zardari, they see nothing has changed. For 10 years Imran Khan has struggled and worked. He is saying the right things, I must follow him.”

Just over 40 years ago most people dismissed the chances of Ali Bhutto when his newly formed Pakistan People’s Party ran in the 1970 national elections. Defying all the odds, his new party caught the national mood, and swept home in West Pakistan. Could Imran Khan, the sporting legend famous for snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, be about to repeat history? It’s a real possibility.

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