Yet another example of Dawn using the language of Patwaris!!!

desan

President (40k+ posts)
How many times have we heared similar arguments from Maryam's Social Media???

Why I stopped being an apologist for PTI


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When in 1997 my uncle pinned the 'diya' on my shirt, my joy knew no bounds. The diya was Imran Khan's party symbol at that time. In a very PML-N-leaning locality, I wore it around proudly all day.

Even when the shopkeeper told me that the ‘lion’ will decimate the diya, I was having none of it. I wanted Khan to lead my country because he was the hero, the new challenger on the proverbial block.

I was around eight at that time and of course hadn't a clue about politics. Besides I – like everybody who has grown up playing cricket and listening to the anecdotes of the 1992 World Cup – wanted to 'be' Imran Khan.

The legendary PTI jalsa of 2011 rekindled my earnest desire of seeing Khan as a front-runner in the race. Everyone saw how he came into his element at that time, the massive response from the masses and how the promise of a new future took shape.

Also read: Imran Khan: the myth and the reality

From that moment on, a new and reorganised PTI emerged. Not even political giants like Javed Hashmi could resist gravitating towards this new movement. A new chapter in the history of Pakistan had begun – a chapter of assurance of redress for the troubled public, of a chance for educated, informed and sincere people acquiring a role in shaping their country’s future.

Of course, the more astute of us knew it was not going to be a sweeping victory for PTI. Still, it now felt that we finally had a voice. The PTI lost on the national front but went on to form the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Broken promises

We already knew the party had many shortcomings. The PTI is still young, we told ourselves. Most of us were willing, nay eager, to look the other way with regards to the party’s various failings.

However, when the project of setting up an innovative, progressive and judicious model of governance went horribly wrong, even the most loyal of us could not find enough excuses to hide behind.

How wrong did it go? The best way to find out is to examine the evidence of PTI's performance in the last two years.

Police and education reforms were the two flagship projects that PTI undertook as the government in KP.

Read on: Less than 25% of KP development budget utilised

The former were widely touted to be ‘revolutionary’ and one-of-their-kind in Pakistan. Time and again, it was claimed that KP police was completely depoliticised and had been turned into one of the most professional departments in Pakistan.

But when push came to shove, the blinders came off quickly enough.

Tear gas, baton charges, arrests, rubber bullets, you name it and the police did it. The recent local body elections also laid bare just how depoliticised the police force really is and it is now evident that the KP police erred on the side of those with political clout.

In the name of education reforms, what KP received was a sharp move backwards. The portfolio of education, which belongs to PTI, has been completely at the disposal of PTI’s coalition partner Jamaat-i-Islami – so much for a ‘changed’ education system.

Another promising education-based project was ‘Taleem ka Insaaf’. However, it was tackled so poorly by the government that it lost almost all financial backing and eventually had to be scrapped.

See: KP to remove ‘objectionable’ material from textbooks

One of the most startling examples of just how much PTI has lost its course occurred during the dharna, when our resolute leaders almost wholly shunned their provincial responsibilities. We saw them stoop to the level of those brutish and selfish politicians that we wanted PTI members to replace.

During the dharna, they employed every tactic in the book of street-politics, to a point where not just local but international news publications ran accounts of the destabilisation caused by the party. Even the Financial Times and Washington Post speculated about the threat to democracy and a looming Martial Law in the country.

From thuggery to outright vandalism and hate speech to the harassment of journalists, from incitement and violence to destruction and arson, PTI appears to have committed everything.

All these antics of PTI have left many like myself dazed and confused. Where is the explanation for all these escapades?

The PTI of today is a party I, and many like myself, cannot recognise. A ghastly shadow of its former self, the party now seems completely like the polity of a very ‘purana’ and retrogressive Pakistan.
Making sense

It is an oft-repeated truism that a politician or a party is not what sustains a movement, rather it is the people who do so.

The desire of a people for the better is what sustains a movement and hence a politician. There is nothing wrong with that picture except that too often the populous then bring in blind faith and enjoin all hope unconditionally with the politician, putting the actual purpose on the back-burner.

Such an effort for change then becomes a falsely contested and selfish agenda – a movement not for the better but for the worse.

That is exactly what happened with PTI.

In other words, the disappointment is not completely to be blamed on Khan or his party but on our own insistence of believing in them blindly, ignoring realities (and denouncing those who point our eyes towards it) and cheering PTI into believing its own myth as an infallible entity that could never fall prey to entrenched interests.

See: Why is it wrong to praise Imran Khan?

Let’s be honest with ourselves, we have mostly been at the losing end of the bargain in the power-play of the ruling classes. Granted we are desperate, but that is no excuse to swallow whatever revolutionary snakeskin oil anybody is selling.
Going forward

There is no black-and-white in most worldly affairs, least of all in politics. We have to abolish this make-believe world where only one party, one man, one saviour stands for impeccable good and is incapable of error.

The fanatic emotional attachment with PTI will have to be treated with a heavy dose of rationality and supporters will have to quit being perpetual apologists for the party’s grand blunders.

I am not suggesting that we give up all hope for change or completely turn our backs on PTI; rather, just that we should honestly re-evaluate our beliefs in the holiness accorded by to it by its supporters and pay more attention to the good and evil of party policies and agendas instead of Good and Evil itself.

We don't want any more sentimental abracadabra chants of revolution and change because what we really need is reform, no matter which party brings that about.

Next time let us vote on the basis of whoever performed better, even marginally, from the rest.




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Muqadas

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
تحریک انصاف سے ذرا سا اختلاف اور آپ
پٹواری، جاہل، موٹا دماغ، لفافہ، حرام خور، گٹر سے نکلے ہوئے لوگ
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پی ایم ایل این کے لئے تحریک انصاف کا یہ رویہ کسی نعمت سے کم ثابت نہیں ہوا

 

rtabasum2

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
تحریک انصاف سے ذرا سا اختلاف اور آپ
پٹواری، جاہل، موٹا دماغ، لفافہ، حرام خور، گٹر سے نکلے ہوئے لوگ
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پی ایم ایل این کے لئے تحریک انصاف کا یہ رویہ کسی نعمت سے کم ثابت نہیں ہوا


Hum apki isi tarah tareef karain gay , app baifiqar ho kar thora sa ikhtalaf karain
 

zain786

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
تحریک انصاف سے ذرا سا اختلاف اور آپ
پٹواری، جاہل، موٹا دماغ، لفافہ، حرام خور، گٹر سے نکلے ہوئے لوگ
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پی ایم ایل این کے لئے تحریک انصاف کا یہ رویہ کسی نعمت سے کم ثابت نہیں ہوا

babz pura parh lo phir yaha pe khus phus karna shuru karo
 

desan

President (40k+ posts)
تحریک انصاف سے ذرا سا اختلاف اور آپ
پٹواری، جاہل، موٹا دماغ، لفافہ، حرام خور، گٹر سے نکلے ہوئے لوگ
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پی ایم ایل این کے لئے تحریک انصاف کا یہ رویہ کسی نعمت سے کم ثابت نہیں ہوا


At least Lifafas, blackmailing, or intimidation is not used to shut out the dissenting voices!!!
 

amir_ali

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Hum apki isi tarah tareef karain gay , app baifiqar ho kar thora sa ikhtalaf karain


باجی آپ سے نہیں ہونا، آپ کوشش بھلا کرتی رہیں۔

دیسن باجی کا لیول پر فرق ہے، ان کا بس چلے تو صبح ناشتے میں نواز شریف کو کچہ چبا جائیں، وہ زرہ زیادہ جزباتی ہیں۔ خان کی ٹرو فین، اب ان کی واپسی کافی زیادہ مشکل ہے۔
 

such bolo

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
تحریک انصاف سے ذرا سا اختلاف اور آپ
پٹواری، جاہل، موٹا دماغ، لفافہ، حرام خور، گٹر سے نکلے ہوئے لوگ
--------
پی ایم ایل این کے لئے تحریک انصاف کا یہ رویہ کسی نعمت سے کم ثابت نہیں ہوا



باجی آپ سے نہیں ہونا، آپ کوشش بھلا کرتی رہیں۔

دیسن باجی کا لیول پر فرق ہے، ان کا بس چلے تو صبح ناشتے میں نواز شریف کو کچہ چبا جائیں، وہ زرہ زیادہ جزباتی ہیں۔ خان کی ٹرو فین، اب ان کی واپسی کافی زیادہ مشکل ہے۔

ن کی جو پرفارمنس ہے او رجس طرح لوگ ن سے آجکل نالاں ہیں
اور جس طرح کے پی کے میں پی تی ای بہتر جا رہی ہے
اس سے واضح نظر آتا ہے کہ اگلے الیکشن میں پی ٹی ای کو زیادہ محنت نہں کرنی پڑیگی

ن نے ایک بہت بڑا موقع گنوا دیا

مجھے خود یہ تھا کہ شاید ن لیگ اچھے پرفارمنس دے کر پی ٹی ای کی جیت کے راستے بند کردیگی...مگر ن کا ایسا کوئی موڈ نہیں
 

Exnooni

Minister (2k+ posts)
"As long as IK remains unblemished, no foreign assets, no stached away S millions in Swiss banks, I will vote for him every day, twice on Sunday"
 

جمہور پسند

Minister (2k+ posts)
ووٹ دن میں دس دینا لیکن کہی پوجا نہ شروع کر دینا کپتان کی
حالات تو اسی طرف جا رہے ہے

"As long as IK remains unblemished, no foreign assets, no stached away S millions in Swiss banks, I will vote for him every day, twice on Sunday"
 

صحرائی

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
عامر بھائی غلطی سے ڈس لائیک ہو گیا
معذرت خواہ ہوں

:13:​



باجی آپ سے نہیں ہونا، آپ کوشش بھلا کرتی رہیں۔

دیسن باجی کا لیول پر فرق ہے، ان کا بس چلے تو صبح ناشتے میں نواز شریف کو کچہ چبا جائیں، وہ زرہ زیادہ جزباتی ہیں۔ خان کی ٹرو فین، اب ان کی واپسی کافی زیادہ مشکل ہے۔
 
Hum apki isi tarah tareef karain gay , app baifiqar ho kar thora sa ikhtalaf karain
We don't need to do such shite for you morons...tum log apnay moonh say khud hee khud ko ruswa kar letay ho....her roz koe aesi baseless baat kartey ho kay barey say bara comedian bhi sharminda ho jae....just today your moron khan YET ONE MORE TIME said he would provide "dhandli kay suboot" abay jaahil e oola to pichlay several months say jo commission maen hearing ho rahi hay wahan ja kar maan mar jaati hay?

Tum sub log bewaqoofi or jahalat ka symbol ho...we don't need to use bad words for you..:-)
@Muqadas
 
At least Lifafas, blackmailing, or intimidation is not used to shut out the dissenting voices!!!

true, only Justices wajih kee insult kee jaati hay aor usay jhoota kaha jata hay.....I guess when you guys open your mouth, you literally can not hear your won voice...warna koe insaan isqadar ignorant kesay ho sakta hay...

Adaab baja laata hoon..:P
 

crankthskunk

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
ن کی جو پرفارمنس ہے او رجس طرح لوگ ن سے آجکل نالاں ہیں
اور جس طرح کے پی کے میں پی تی ای بہتر جا رہی ہے
اس سے واضح نظر آتا ہے کہ اگلے الیکشن میں پی ٹی ای کو زیادہ محنت نہں کرنی پڑیگی

ن نے ایک بہت بڑا موقع گنوا دیا

مجھے خود یہ تھا کہ شاید ن لیگ اچھے پرفارمنس دے کر پی ٹی ای کی جیت کے راستے بند کردیگی...مگر ن کا ایسا کوئی موڈ نہیں

Saach bolo bhai, tum game samjhoo. N league hameesha kahtee the ke hamee tu kabhi 5 saal mile hi nahi, hume 5 saal do phir deekho kisi tarqi hogi. Unhone tu saaf kaha tha ke Tarqi hogi, aap Pakistanis poochna kion bhool gae ke kis ki tarqi hogi?
Wo jo kahavat he ke Momin aik surakh se do dafa nahi dasa jata, aab Pakistani aik hi sorakh se teen dafa kion dasee gae?

N League tu wo hi karrahi thi jo unka irada tha. Mega corruption and cut in every big project, selling off of the national assets to their henchmen taking their cuts.

Look at the big corruption, huge corruption in Metro Bus Lahore, real cost well over 100 billions, not 30 which were advertised. Which stupid country would like 56 buses for over a $1 billion? Pakistan.
Huge money making contract for LPG, no price fixed for a long term on going project, without price? Now the price will be filled by themselves, the money would go to Qatar to Athesab and from their to Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanjh brothers banks.
Nandipur over $1.3bn spend on a small power generating unit which is still not working.

So the agenda is clear, they are hoping for full 5 years, run with the maximum loot. Look at Zardari, he made what he could in 5 years. Now his turn is gone, so he decided to loot the Sind black and blue.
It is fact of life, if Pakistanis are blind it is their mistake. I am just listening to Dhamal Chaudhry on a channel, when we have politicians like him, do you seriously think that Pakistan's future would be bright.
 

Kamboz

Minister (2k+ posts)
We don't need to do such shite for you morons...tum log apnay moonh say khud hee khud ko ruswa kar letay ho....her roz koe aesi baseless baat kartey ho kay barey say bara comedian bhi sharminda ho jae....just today your moron khan YET ONE MORE TIME said he would provide "dhandli kay suboot" abay jaahil e oola to pichlay several months say jo commission maen hearing ho rahi hay wahan ja kar maan mar jaati hay?

Tum sub log bewaqoofi or jahalat ka symbol ho...we don't need to use bad words for you..:-)
@Muqadas

YOu might feel why many PTI youth use aggressive language... well, there is a reason!
Because a Chor has to be called a Chor.... A Badmash has to be called out as well. Respect is only for those who deserve it, if your party has looted our Country we will be abusive to you, unless you return what you stole.
 

desan

President (40k+ posts)
true, only Justices wajih kee insult kee jaati hay aor usay jhoota kaha jata hay.....I guess when you guys open your mouth, you literally can not hear your won voice...warna koe insaan isqadar ignorant kesay ho sakta hay...

Adaab baja laata hoon..:P

Despite Khan's nativity, he is being protected from the heavens...

All the moles and scoundrels are exposing themselves.
 
Despite Khan's nativity, he is being protected from the heavens...

All the moles and scoundrels are exposing themselves.

Haha...qadam qadam par he is being proven wrong and pathetic liar...if u call this insult a protection from heaven. ..well then keep enjoying your bliss
 

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