I am sure many of ATP readers will be surprised to see this photograph in which former President Musharraf is saluting his most vocal critic Imran Khan.
Before you jump onto conclusions, let me tell you that this photograph is said to be taken during a fund raising event doe the Shaukat Khannum Memorial Hospital sometime in 2000-01. It was the time when Imran Khan’s PTI supported Musharraf and he was a reportedly hot favorite candidate for Prime Ministership.
Do you think the photograph is real? Imran Khan actually mentioned this one in many of his speeches in US recently. Watch the part of his speech after 4 minutes and 50 seconds in a video here. And if it is, what does it tell us about Gen. Musharraf. Or about Imran Khan.
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I think we should stop worrying about Imran and also about Musharraf. Lets move on please.
I am not sure if the picture is real
But even if it is, it does not say much. To his credit, Musharraf has always spoken of Imran with respect and many peopel will salute Imran for his philanthropy without really agreeing with his politics.
Thanks Ayesha… by the way, I look forward to reading your book whenever time permits…
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is doing what the PML-N has been doing in the past: serving as JI lite… I’ve always felt that if someone has been spared the misfortune of falling into the JI trap on campus or through family ties yet they still have JIesque tendencies, then the PML-N is a natural home for them… the same delusions about Khilafat, the same bourgeois morality, the same passion for pseudo-jihad, and at the root of it all, the hatred for the PPP which they cannot articulate if asked to… the entire JI shebang, without the beards or the history of electoral disasters or the forced intra-Jamaat marriages or the dharnas or that infamous, embarrassing “Zalmo Qazi Aa Raha Hai” slogan which graces the walls of every public lavatory…
PTI may well turn out to be more dangerous in this role than the PML-N, because of Imran Khan’s persona… he cannot be ridiculed as the Sharif brothers can… he isn’t yet tainted with corruption, and he attracts a particular type of young, urban, educated, English-speaking naive idealist to his fold… I remember in the one week I spent at UET Lahore back in 1999, the Jamaati thugs who forced us to attend the iftaar party they had so generously thrown for us were cleanshaven and clad in tight jeans… the new PTI recruits will be the same, albeit without the menace that the Jamaati thugs used to ooze out of their very pores… that will make them difficult to detest, and the perfect tools for the JI to use, using Imran Khan as the conduit…
Well said, Umar, though I question the erudite bit. Looks like Darwaish is the resident PTI propagator at ATP.