IMRAN KHAN: A PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN?

 IMRAN KHAN: A PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN?

(Written on: 05 July, 2017)


Since the independence of Pakistan, This nation has always been thirsty of an honest leadership. Calming that thirst, The nation have also tried many faces of different thoughts whether they are Liberal, Religious, Extremists or "Looters" but unfortunately no 'face' proved to be the best for Pakistan. Despite of gearing up the process of development and getting the country right on the track, The politicians kept themselves busy in the obedience of "the men in long boot" and with "the traders of green notes". The Game planners and the script writers have gave nothing except gifting false claims of solving all problems like Poverty, Load-shedding, Terrorism etc in tenure of the Government.

The Nation has always been disappointed with politicians, People have always regreted their selection of their leaders in General Elections.

Despite Pakistan is a democratic country, but It has not seen that much good years of it. Pakistan's History is full of the stories of dictators who breached the Constitution and formed their self-made 'Government of Dictation. This country has not seen colours of democracy flourishing throughout the country, Situation is even worst that you can imagine from that The people of The Islamic Democratic Country Of Pakistan, unwillingly, have always been dependent on its armed forces, They still want 'Men in Long Boots' to take over the Government and make Pakistan stable. It is all because of the misdoings of the politicians of Pakistan.

However, People of Pakistan, despite of all that garbage, Still see some light of hope in the politics of Pakistan and that is only because of a man called IMRAN KHAN!

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, In his very short profile, Born on 25 November, 1952, to Ikramullah Khan Niazi Shemankhel and Shaukat Khanum (Burki), A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up in a family with four sisters, he being an only son of his parents. Imran attended Cathedral School in Lahore until he finished middle school. Then being settled in England, he completed his formal schooling with an undergraduate degree in economics from Keble College, Oxford.

While at University, Imran Khan was also the captain of the Oxford University cricket team in 1974. He and his mother, Shaukat Khanum, come from a cricketing family, which also includes successful hockey players – the Burkis, with two of his maternal cousins, Javed Burki and Majid Khan, also having played Test cricket for Pakistan. And from his paternal side he got cousins like Unilever board of director Shahed Ali Khan.

He is the finest cricketer Pakistan has ever produced, who is among the finest all-rounders and greatest fast bowlers the game has ever seen. He played Test cricket for Pakistan between 1971 and 1992, and was captain of the national team when they won their maiden World Cup in 1992.

After retiring from cricket, Imran Khan aimed at social work and founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in Lahore.

In 1997, he started a socio-political movement known as the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, PTI (Movement for Justice). The main focus of his party is to bring justice to the people of Pakistan, largely via an independent judiciary. The party has Islamic overtones and is inspired partly by Imran Khan’s renewed commitment to Islam.

He emerged in the Political Scenario of Pakistan by holding a Large Public Meeting (Jalsa) at Meenar e Pakistan in Lahore, In November 2011 which will be remembered widely in the history of PTI as well as in the history of Pakistan.

Here we will put light on some reasons that why he can be the one who is able to calm the thirst of Nation for Honest Leadership

1. HE IS HONEST, SACRED FROM ANY BLACK DOT OF MISDOING:

It is said that one can believed if he or she is himself a good person having no character issue and no doubt Imran Khan tops this category!

There is no scam of any misdoing of Imran Khan in his whole career being an Sportsperson, Politician or a Social Worker, He is clean from all that garbage.He is such an honest and befitting personality for whom Pakistan has been thirsty for. There are lots of stories from cricket and social work to is political career which itself tells his neat and clean intentions

2. A FEARLESS LEADER:

Leadership is a quality which can be disregarded, A leader is who take his men away from the world of IMPOSSIBILITY to POSSIBILITY, A leader is who always up there for facing the challenges with courage and confidence and Imran Khan, unsuspiciously, is a person who fits at this job!
Taking Pakistan Cricket up-to peaks, Winning Cricket World Cup for Pakistan, Building a Cancer Hospital and now breaking the chains of Status-quo are such achievements which are the talking-proofs of Khan's Leadership qualities.

3. COMMITMENT TOWARDS ACHIEVING GOALS:

Goal Setting is a way to live a disciplined life and to achieve success, It plays a role of a Road or a Railway Track in one's life, What is required to be on 'Right Track' is your commitment towards your Goals, Without commitment, a person is like wandering from one place to another having lost a path.
Imran Khan's commitment towards his goals is also another reason for the motivation, According to him, One who gives it up, is a 'real looser', he says," My goal setting started from my childhood, When I was 9 years old, I aimed at joining Pakistan Cricket team, After struggle of nearly 10 years, I got selected in National team, I, then intended to be the captain of the Team and in the age of 27, My dream came true and i was selected captain of national side, When i became Captain, I saw our trophy cabinet empty of any big event so i dreamed to win a World Cup for Pakistan and i did so! While being in world of cricket, i saw my mother loosing her breath because of cancer so I aimed to at building a cancer hospital in Pakistan that no son could see her mother dying off cancer like his died and Allah blessed me the energy with i could build a cancer hospital where Large number of patients are being treated with 70% off, So Allah has only gave us Will and Try, Success is his Duty, Now i aim at to uproot the disease of Corruption from Pakistan and InshaAllah I will achieve this also because i know the people of Pakistan and Allah is with me"



4. INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITY, WELL KNOWN WORLD WIDELY:

Pakistan's perception at world level has highly been damaged because of 'beggars in the dress of rulers'. The name of Pakistan is badly spoiled internationally because of the Corruption and Dirty politics of our leaders, It is a bitter reality that Pakistanis are not considered 'good citizens' in the world only because of the bad deeds of our leaders, So at this level we strongly need a person who is honest and neat and clean in his character and there is no doubt in the Positive Character of Imran Khan, A person who has remained Honourary Vice Chancellor Of Oxford and Present Vice Chancellor Of Cambridge University, London! He is the only person in current political scenario of Pakistan who can fresh up the air for Pakistanis in the world and get some respect to Green Passport!

5. ATTITUDE TOWARDS SUPER POWERS:

Pakistan's Attitude towards super powers specially USA has not been like a 'sovereign state', Unfortunately Pakistan has always been down on the knees in front of America. The alleged assassination of Osama Bin Laden in a compound in Abbotabad and The easy release of Raymond Davis after killing 2 innocent Pakistanis in the daylight. Moreover, Pakistan is getting debt from America for decades regarding War on Terror.
"I would set good relations with USA but I will not be Beggar infront of America" this is the stance of Imran Khan on Super Power USA which make sense! :)

6. MOTIVATIONAL CHARACTER:

All the reasons and qualities mentioned and described above all are enough to motivate a Pakistani to elect a perfect Leader for his beloved country, Imran Khan is a role model for young Pakistani Cricketers as well as of young students.

Heading towards negative approaches of Khan's political career, He has also been criticized for his 'shortcut' political strategies, His short term plans to make it to the PM house are the failures in his Lap. Struggle Like Azadi March and 120 days sit-in in Redzone of Islamabad could not get him some fruits and A quite painful incident of APS Attack put an end to it.
Afterwards, Holding some public meetings in the middle of 2016, He, again, announced movement against corruption after the appearance of Panama Leaks and announced the Sit-in on 4 Nov which was  successfully obstructed by Federal Government and yet, it added another failure in the account of Imran Khan but he was successful in bringing the Sharif Family in-front of Supreme court and holding them accountable.

Despite of all of his failures of his political strategies, He is still favorite Politician of most of youth of Pakistan and he is considered as a tough contestant in next 2018 General Elections

Pakistan is passing through a very decisive moment as fight against corruption has about to come to a conclusion and again Islamabad is a fighting ring, Panama Case is being investigated in JIT formed by Supreme Court and Elections are also around the corner. Imran Khan have played a very important role in that fight, It will be very interesting to see how people of Pakistan respond to Imran Khan's wake up call and how they react in General Elections 2018 voting!

Rafiq Azad Mangi
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