The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) struggled for sixteen years with a vision to reverse the present downward slide and take it to new heights.
It was indeed sad for the party that after the October 30 Lahore jalsa, the PTI leadership started ignoring the ideologically committed workers and not only welcomed opportunists but also gave them key responsibilities.
The ideological workers of the party showed their reservations but were given a lollypop of “merit” and the PTI bosses begged the workers to accept the decision in the name of Imran Khan. These bosses are good at exploiting the feelings of the workers. The entire country witnessed the ugly scenes at the PTI’s Central Office in Islamabad at the time of the joining of Pervez Khattak.
Akbar Sher Babar is a well-known analyst and a founding member of PTI; he has played a vital role in bringing PTI to where it is today.
On August 6 and 13, 2011, Akbar Sher Babar with the support of other ideologically committed workers who were forced on the sidelines as they did not agree with the sham elections conducted in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Islamabad chapter where not a single vote was cast and all the panels were pre-approved by the PTI mafia, was able to mobilise the people. Fearing the rise of Akbar Sher Babar, who is known to be an honest and upright person, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Central Office mafia ganged up against him and successfully developed differences between him and Imran Khan.
I fear that during the award of party tickets, the same opportunists such as Pervez Khattak, Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali, Shafqat Mahmood, Azam Swati, Iftikhar Jhagra, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and others would be preferred over the ideologically committed and competent people thus risking the entire future of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and dashing the hope of real change in the country. I sincerely suggest that Imran Khan should first clean sweep his own backyard before clean sweeping the country.
HAFEEZ KHAN
Lahore