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I recently got a mail from www.paksir.blogspot.comcongratulating me on my blog so here it is.

Congratulations launching a new blog. Wish you success.

You claim to have read his memoir, but you have failed to quote perhaps the most important chapter in which he lays out the ideological paradigms of his Pakistan project. I would certainly encourage everyone to read his memoir on Pakistan, and specifically Chapter 10, where he very articulately traces the rise and fall of Islamic thought and scientific inquiry and his propositions to resolve Pakistan’s dogmatic and illiterate society.

When he quotes Iqbal’s philosophy as his principle guide, and when he claims that he wants to convert Pakistan into a welfare state, he wants to create a ‘modernist Islamic Republic’. Now the closest example to this is perhaps Turkey. This is what he wants Pakistan to become, not a Talibanised cesspool of reactionary ‘Sharia’. He attacks America because their withdrawal from Afghanistan, the chief rationale, alongside Israel’s occupation of Palestine, for this ‘Jihad’, is radicalizing Pakistani society – he is probably just as horrified with Pakistan as the rest of us are.

Nevertheless, you raise valid questions regarding the PTI’s alienation of liberals. Personally, I believe the rationale is entirely political rather than ideological. One, the majority of Pakistanis associate liberals with the West, and by extension the War on Terror. ‘Liberal’ political parties such as the PPP are associated with the status-quo, another evil in the eyes of the PTI. IK has repeatedly referred to the polarization of Pakistani society and it is safe to say, it is largely anti-American. The liberals are a minority in Pakistan, and the voting masses are largely conservative. The PTI is dealing with the political and social realities of the vote bank.

I do, however, have faith that Imran Khan’s years in England, his education at Oxford and his insight into Western society have not gone to waste. This is a man who has seen the best of both worlds and will probably have a far more nuanced, reasonable framework than his simple political rhetoric dictates. It is a movement with a firm principle – become a self-made nation, don’t mimic the West, but learn from them and incorporate this into your own society. It remains to be seen whether my optimism in Imran Khan’s programme is correct, but all indicators suggest that Imran Khan is playing the poltical game very shrewdly, with a firm, honourable goal in mind.

SO Mr.Paksir I totally respect your opinion but studying from Oxford and living in western world does not bring an inch change in politics. Using the same old dialogues means that the person has nothing to do. Imran Khan do criticize every politician but when the questions are raised on his Party he just neglects the question and just tries to justify that he is the best. People may believe him but the true people who understands every single bit of politics will surely say that

Imran HAS LOST IT !!!