I respectfully disagree with your analogy of "if Imran fails to change this media setup now (while not in power), he will fail in Government too".. simply because here he or PTI does not have any authority over tv shows or media, however in Government they will have authority to bring change..{/QUOTE]
May be I should have explained myself better - what I meant to say was that if they fail at these important things like media management then the chances are that they will fail at other things too when they form the government - I didn't mean to make a sweeping statement. I know that there are a thousand things going on right now but imagine that there are a million things that need to be managed in a government then there are no excuses. We all hope that ALL our governments do a better job at managing things.
yes, you're right that organizational and management skills are tested before but in this respect, PTI has clear advantage with excellent innovations that they have brought to Pakistani politics so far (marketing tactics, making jalsa successful without giving qeemey waley naan, mobilizing youth, etc.).. its just the results we r seeing that Pakistan's two largest parties PPP & PML-N are now waking up and realizing that Pakistani youth is important, or workers should be respected and not treated as "riaya", family politics should be minimized (move of making Saad Rafique as PML-N president Punjab etc.)
Completely agree with you that they are blazing new trails in the political arena - but there is always room for improvement :-) and sometime you have to prioritize the things that you need to pay special attention to......and the thing is that the standard and state of politics is so abysmal that even a small improvement seems huge. I think that the youth are capable of bringing a lot of improvement and hopefully the youth will not be sidelined in PTI as the old and traditional politicians join the party who are basically practice the kind of politics that you mentioned above.
I know these are pity things but why I am saying they're "significant" because never in Pakistan's history, issues or policies were discussed before elections or issues concerning youth were addressed before.. all previous elections (as far as i remember) were just used to be blame game or winning sympathy vote..
I agree - with some of the reservations I have about IK I still think that he may be the last hope for pakistan - since I see even a 10% improvement will be huge in a country which has become so accustomed to mediocrity, corruption, incompetence, ineptitude that just the ordinary and normal seems to be extraordinarily brilliant ;-)
lets hope against hope.....
