Social and Political Education

Pakistani people put their fate over various leaders in the past six decades but unfortunately none of them succeeded to overcome myriad problems of poor Pakistanis, notwithstanding of this they increase their problems and put them more on margins. Neighbors of Pakistan improved a lot although only one neighbor country is Muslim. Others all are non-Muslims and this is the hostile fact for all Pakistanis that being Muslims, who have proper guideline to live and prosper, failed to comply over their deeds. Currently Pakistan is living in extreme horrible situations. Pakistan is under Great War, and the fact that there is war without declaration is more imperiling. No one knows that Pakistan is under war, but infact number of explosives, terrorism, shortages of basic needs and rising anarchy all defines the situations of Great War. In this situation, most of less hearted people are afraid of Pakistan’s sovereignty, besides the enemies of Pakistan are getting benefit of this whole situation and busy in forecasting end of Pakistan. While on the contrary in this whole situation, Pakistani patriotic people are still hopeful and despite absence of any step towards improvement they are farseeing bright Pakistan.

After the withdrawal of previous authoritarian rule, people of Pakistan put lot of hopes from political parties of Pakistan. Pakistan people party gathered lot of sympathy votes from public and took power, whereas various people sound out about dealing between Musharraf and Zardari. Whatsoever   happened, but PPP come with great revolutionary promises, public put their hopes over them, but after their success to rule country, they continue the Musharraf work and with the passage of time, worst anarchy spread around the country with extreme fidgets in public. Now it is widely assumed and narrated that this government failed. Opposition also flows water over hopes of Public; the all role of opposition is just for their personal benefits only. They very less oppose government for their wrong decisions. After a long time opposition and government jointly prepared a new constitutional draft, but there are various dissensions over these new amendments. Most of people are of the view that the constitutional drawn just for the politicians, there is nothing having done in favor of public. Public is of the view that, despite consuming energy, time and money to solve public issues, they are putting huge time and money to prepare such a constitution which is only for politicians with numbered of dissensions.

In this whole situation, all Pakistani people are in search of political messiah, but who could overcome hopes of Pakistani people? Numbers of people have put their all hopes to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf which is led by Imran Khan. People of Pakistan cited Imran Khan as “Symbol of change” tabdili ka nishan. Especially youth is highly in favor of him. Now how he is symbol of change? This is a question to analyze thoroughly, because, now Pakistanis have no more time to check another leader to design and play with their fates. Therefore it is important to count all qualities and flaws in him to make him a good leader. It is nature of Pakistani people, that they immediately deceived by sweet words of people without analyzing them. Now people of Pakistan should not believe blindly, they have to think shrewdly for next leadership.

There are numbered of articles which count myriad qualities of Imran khan as a symbol of change. Imran khan himself praised himself in his articles and promises to turn the fate of Pakistani people. He showed his extreme detest towards Americans and win the hearts of Pakistanis as well as Talibans. On the contrary he always praises governance system of Britain and always suggests following it, he spread his party in foreign countries more then in Pakistan. Foreign country researchers also write about him a lot as a symbol of change. Karen Angler Collier, wrote a panegyric book over Imran khan titled as “Why Pakistan needs Imran Khan”, similarly various authors quote ridiculous words about Imran Khan. However, I am in search of those facts which could ensure practically, that Imran could bring change. In this regard I searched a lot about his strategies and policies that could bring me infos about his track towards his destination to overcome hopes of Pakistani people. Nevertheless, unfortunately I just got his beautiful words that any leader uses before occupying power. Even I can say that if we compare sweet words of Imran with Zardari, then Zardari words appear more sweet due to his continues smiling face and soft way of criticizing others. Even I observe that there are various organizational disturbances in his party along with wide dissatisfaction of his party members from him.

I observed this from his party website; his all party members have so many discrepancies over him. They think that Imran Khan put more concentration on UK party members, whereas he should work hard within Pakistan. Besides this, number of dissensions aroused after PTI alliances with Jamat-e-Islami.  Moreover, pti members have objections over Imran Khan’s activities other then party work, one of forum member comment like this;

“imran khan has only one thing the principle stance but he is far from creating a loyal and responsible team, he is far from becoming the voice of common man bcoz he is always indulged in seminars and meetings as well as shoukat khanum.

it is the peak time to provide leadership to lawless and leaderless mobs, pti believe in imran khan but may b he is too busy to visit karachi, or maybe to afraid of coming into shining sun in the heat “.

Another forum member shared such infos, which further hit the Imran Khan’s capabilities to bring change, even after 14 years of struggle,

“We should make PTI stronger and stop relying totally on the chairman. One person can’t do it all, but a team can have a chance. The chairman demands mid-term elections but I don’t think PTI is prepared for any elections. We need teams on the ground. Pakistan is not America, PTI won’t and can’t win elections on the basis of tv apperances. He tried his best in one constituency (pindi) and the result was devastating. What hope with a mid-term election then? Even if he tours the whole country, it won’t be enough and we can’t bring change to Pakistan politics with 10 seats in the parliament.”

Although, I do not know how much there is realism in this comment of insaf forum member, but this shows that how Imran could turn the fate of such country in  this way?” Further another comment of forum member confirms disabilities of PTI in following words;

“People are out on the streets without clear strategy and leadership. Mass gatherings in various cities is reported in the media even from PTI platforms as well.  We pose ourselves as party of masses. But our national leadership never spoke out clearly on energy issue. what i believe we should do is mobilise people on this issue who are already willing to come out on this issue”.

While studying all these comments and various articles over Imran Khan, I feel that Imran is moving forward without following any particular track. He is roaming in the jungle of Pakistani politics. He does not define his particular agenda and react similar to other parties in Pakistan. One of forum member shows the same feeling about Imran and pti with his following comment;

“Lack of Direction” are the right words reflecting PTI’s political agenda specially now a days. Day to day events are leading our reactionary politics. I support your argument that without clear convincing argument & political agenda its just another trial and error exercise. Chairman must act pro actively and learn from other parties mistakes. We must act maturely and increase out stature through solid policies and long term solutions for current social and political issues”.

After completing shaukat khanum, I remembered, whereas I was very young in that time, he announced that now he will work for education. Being very young I feel once that now a big change will occur in educational phenomenal, but suddenly he turned to politics. Now 14 years have been passed but still there are no specific strategies and policies announced by him to tackle various social, economic and political problems. If he continued his work for education other then political work then it could benefit him and country a lot. In that way, people could also able to trust him without dubieties. Moreover he often comments very late over hot issues, and react passively. Also he could not convey his message comprehensively, due to which often he receive the lot criticisms, just like in stance of Taliban.

People of Pakistan experienced lot of leaders, now they could not trust a new leader easily, unless, he put some evidences of his intellections. He says, education should be such that people could able to understand Islam, this is a very small sentence but it needs wide explanations to become clear over people that, how? Our current education policy is following Musahrraf policies and mostly inspired by SDPI paper over curriculum of public schools of Pakistan, which suggest abolishing Islamic teachings and ideology of Pakistan from curriculum. Imran Khan never once shows his concerns over it, whereas it is a serious matter, it leads to destroy generations.

Furthermore like all other political parties he extend his party in European and Arabian countries, I do not understand that if any other country do not have their party extensions in our country then why Pakistan have? If overseas are interested in Pakistan and Imran also believe them more, then they should come back in Pakistan and well organize PTI in Pakistan for Pakistan. Yet it seemed that PTI is any foreign party of Pakistani people, despite working out of country, deciding out of country (like current leaders), he should call those UK members and others to Pakistan to sit with Pakistani members and Pakistani people and solve Pakistan while sitting in Pakistan.

Becoming a “symbol of change” is not a trifling matter, it needs exclusively hard work. Imran khan is just using words to become a leader, he should put down his strategies as document on his website, that how will he tackle educational problems, health problems, economical problems, lawlessness and anarchy and stuck to them firmly to achieve them. Despite waiting for power, and then starting documentation for various problems, they have to prepare them as a home work. In this way they will able to gather criticisms before power and could improve their documentation and after taking power there will be only need of initiating implementation process. This will also help people like me to understand that how Imran khan could be a symbol of change. Using beautiful words in speeches, criticizing and commenting is very easy for any politician, Pakistan is not a new baby that politicians start preaching good ideas, it is 62 years old nation, and it needs work along with evidences.