Since yesterday’s Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) jalsa every newspaper and news channel is chanting about its success.
Apart from analysing its impact on future politics the most heated debate is about the number of people who attended the jalsa. Rough estimates say from anywhere between one to five lakh people.But a very important question is whether it had some thing else to offer except the show of people.
For the first time, PTI Chairperson Imran Khan did not make lengthy furious criticism of the opponent parties’ leadership, which quite often annoys his educated supporters, he did precisely referred to their corruption and pro-American attitudes.
This can actually be called the final fruit of PTI jalsa. Imran Khan intensely elaborated the reasons of Pakistan’s chaotic situation and anarchy in the society; he boldly spoke against the Waziristan military action, secret permission of drones by the government.
He in detail explained PTI’s future agenda, the entire plan of the road to recovery and progress, how proper steps would be taken to eradicate corruption, tax would be collected through transparent channels from high to low, how police and patwari system would be corrected.
Imran Khan proudly announced that the PTI leadership would first declare its own assets and would later ask the others to do the same. Apart from that, he intrepidly explained PTI’s foreign policy plan, ‘we would befriend US but won’t accept to be their slaves’. Pakistan would strengthen its relationship with China rather than America.
The huge crowd, majority of which was youth, listened with good attention because the entire speech made sense to them; they could see their party properly prepared with a constructive road map to channelise things into right direction.
MUNAZA AKHTAR
Islamabad
