2/5 Imran Khan faces university students - TVOne - Apr 11, 2009

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Imran Khan answering questions in public forum with university students and faculty - TV One - Apr 11, 2009.


Imran Khan's great talent is in picking the challenges that he CAN do and NOT doing the ones he cannot.

For example given the chance to join various governments as minister, he has avoided the complication those jobs would entail for him.

The good this is that this allows him to do some things at a high level of quality.

The bad thing is it also limits the impact he can have on society. For instance if he had joined Zia-ul-Haq's government as minister of education for instance, he MIGHT have instituted some changes which may have remained to this day and created a 10% improvement over ALL these years.

It is this focus on excellence which thus deprives him of the ability to participate in a wider (albeit more diluted) improvement of things in Pakistan.


In this he is starkly different from a person like Edhi, who is primarily focused on serving the people without regard for payback or acclaim. A wider net is also cast and thus a lower quality is achieved also.

With Imran Khan one of the problems he has - which limits his leadership quality to not go beyond schoolboy-level show off-ness - is that he cannot do something that is good for the nation but is bad for his image.


And in this respect he is also different from Musharraf - who has taken decisions which would be unpopular but were required for that time. Because of this he achieved great improvements in a number of areas (if you can escape the Afghan-centric media focus as touchstone for all success).


And THAT primarily is the main weakness in Imran Khan. And that is the he is not a "heroic" character. Sure, he is a charismatic character, but there is a sense of a veneer to him which prevents people from daftly following him through hell.

And it is this weakness which will prevent Imran Khan from ever becoming a great leader - it is a very small difference, but a crucial one which is very hard for a person to do once one is in the OTHER camp.


Other than that Imran Khan carries the scandal of "Zaani" (having fathered a daughter with Sita White which is bad enough by Pakistani standard, but even worse to NOT be adopting her as his own). This issue which will be ignored while he allies himself with former opponents like Nawaz Sharif, Benazir/Zardari and Jamaat-e-Islami (Qazi Hussain and now the new one) against the common foe of the moment (Musharraf and later Zardari), will AGAIN rear it's head if he ever goes against his current allies.

So while Musharraf may not have used this against Imran Khan, the JI and Nawaz Sharif will waste no time in raising this issue if he ever goes against them.

This seriously limits his VIABILITY as a leader.

The other weakness of course is his marriage and children with the Goldsmith family of the U.K. which is a Jewish family with ties to the Jewish/Banking moneyed class there.

This will ALSO be used by his opponents.

Because of these reasons Imran Khan remains a TAINTED personality with severely crippled prospects for high office (his behaviour in these affairs also raises questions of judgement which may not be visible in projects such as the hospital, but maybe considered grave weaknesses for someone in high office). Not to say that Zardari is any better than him, but Imran Khan does not have an incumbent PPP base to work with - if he succeeds it will have to be purely on a populist base.


And for the same reasons it makes the criticisms Imran Khan makes especially out of place. When he is not in a position to take over from the incumbent leaders it raises issues of legitimacy about his criticism.


Then there is the wishy washy philosophies Imran Khan has taken. First emphasizing honesty of leadership. Then when he gets an honest leader (Musharraf) he chooses to go against him and allies with former disgraced and corrupt leaders like Nawaz Sharif, Benazir and the dubious-intentioned Jamaat-e-Islami (which has links to U.S. interests since the 1960s, whatever the rhetoric they may publicly proclaim). And he allies with Iftikhar Chaudhry who had a reputation for corruption among lawyers, and his own lawyers privately conceded they were fighting this only to weaken Musharraf.

It is for this reason that Imran Khan cuts a particularly "lota" figure - if he cannot figure out what is most important for the country. Stability and honest leadership, or chaos and fake leaders with a history of mismanagement.

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[monizeshan]

Hay man, where did I say I am opposing the laws of Islam, but tell me is it fair that a group with power of gun and voilence dictate their own version of Islamic laws other wise create bloodshed? Do you think Taliban allow you to keep TV if you want to use it studies, use internet where you are watching this youtube?

[pakistanwatch]

You are talking to someone who is more talking out of a need to return to village life, tribal life and a rejection of urban life (with all it's complexities) and sometimes even a rejection of the Islamic ethos, than anyone talking about "Islam".

Islam is just something they know people are loath to contradict - it certainly put you on the back foot didn't it ?

They use it because it shuts people up, because most people know little about religion, having relegated it to their local maulvi.

[pakistanwatch]

If it was not Islam, these people would be using Christianity. If not that, they would try Hinduism to convince you.

The media critizes Musharraf with EASE. But is reluctant to criticize these people. Because it is AFRAID of these people and NOT afraid of Musharraf.

Yet they call Musharraf an "aamir" and "dictator". That surely takes the cake.

They lament the passing of "Nawab" Bugti, a self-confessed killer, proud of it as a tribal custom. Probably they think this is highly Islamic ?

[pakistanwatch]

They destroy girls schools. Islamic ?

Kill civilians. Islamic ?

Come to power in Afghanistan, and fritter it all away because of ARROGANCE and BOASTING. A caring Islamic leadership would have suffered personal humiliation if it would have saved their "riaya" from hardship.

Plenty of evidence they have nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with a desire to return to tribal roots.

[pakistanwatch]

That is why supporters IGNORE everything that is un-Islamic about them, and look for excuses for their behaviour when it diverges widely from Islamic practice.

If the U.S. behaves badly, they want to behave badly. They want to kill some civilians.  Islamic ?

If they have SUCH a predilection for jettisoning Islamic principles at every pretext, WHAT makes them "Islamic" ?

Could it be that given the opportunity to kill, and pillage, that a certain TYPE of person flocks to these organizations ?

[pakistanwatch]

However, there ARE aspects of "revolution" in the Taliban/Swat movements. The years of corruption and mismanagement by "secular" forces DOES create interest among some for something new.

Perhaps for that reason it will be of interest to see how the Swat situation works out. If in a year or two it improves, then it may put pressure on the politicians to improve other parts of the country.

However these movements will spread to other areas well before that happens.

[sabahful]

imran khan is the only brave leader now in pakistan!

[pakistan1947love]

these kinds of people like Imran khan deserve to be the front leader of pakistan. it is our responsibility to cast vote to imran for the betterment of Pakistan. i consider that Imran Khan has wonderful ideas and abilities to run the nation.

[mohammad147md]

pakistan zindabad

[Jaigandjeeki]

i agree with imran khan what he said about some pakistanies not feeling proud to be pakistani over seas. it cud because to much racism in the west u tell ppl ur pakistan and they wont even speak with you.and 2nd reason its cause some pakistanies go over seas n they give bad name to the country and the ppl and u tell ppl u from pakistan and they r all like dnt feel or think gud about pakistan

[cupppp]

u are fucking american slave ...imran khan is only hope for pak ..not nawaz dick head and zardari shit.....we want islam in pak not fucking shit democracy .......we want justice ....not democracy

[marjane111]

watch living on the edge lahore audition, i'm sure you wud make difference between pathans and ponjabi like u, bloody pussy boi.. ppl like u are ruining ponjab image, there r some gud ppl livin there, yr jus spoilin their image, u shuld commit suicide..

[unsupak]

Go fuck yourself !! stupid piece of shit. Here go to 40 Zaman Park, ask for Imran Khan, he will oblige you. He's into that shit like you..

[marjane111]

Whoaaa yr not replyin to what i asked you about why would u get offended if imran's have fucked sita white ? why wont u get offended when u pass through heera mandi , u know what give me your address in lahore and i will make u suck on my spitting cobra.. i swear