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12. An Open Letter to
Imran Khan
Dear Mr. Imran Khan,
Let me introduce myself . My name
will appear on my page of Facebook . However , let me state that my children ,
boys and girls, collected donations when you were building the Shaukat Khanum
Hospital . I used to accompany them on their rounds . I don’t know , and I do
not care to know , the amount that very small amount they had managed to
collect . However , the Hospital and the University in Mianwali are the pride
of Pakistan . Indeed , you had become a trendsetter in this field .
However , I am writing this to
Imran Khan the politician and not to Imran Khan the philanthropist.
I am at the end of my life and I have no worries which party is
ruling the country or will rule in the future. I have no trust in the
established parties .As a new party , you are also losing the public trust
rapidly . However , I have no means of knowing whether your
popularity graph is ascending or descending . My source is the discussions , I
have .
1.
In the
mid sixties , I attended a talk given by then famous journalist , Mr. A.B.S.
Jafri . One sentence was ‘ politicians tend to talk tall : not only here .But
everywhere’. While other parties prepare a manifesto , whether
or not they abide by it , your
party has apparently no programme but to seize control of
the country at the opportune time. The people of Pakistan have become aware of
their problems and possible solutions . What you do plan to ameliorate of the
living conditions of the people? Pray what is the difference between
other and your party .
2.
What
are your plans to provide protection to life , property and honour of common
people instead of a handful of sacred cows ? What are your plans to provide
justice in this corrupt set up ? How would you restore ‘hope’ among the people
when hope has diminished .
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3.
What are your
plans to restore peace in Baluchistan , Karachi , Quetta and other places
4.
You have
gathered around a motley crowd called the ‘ electables’ . You know very well
those ‘electables’ are notorious for changing parties . Eg Shah Mahmood
Quershi’s father was the Governor of the Punjab in General Zia ul Haq’s days .
He first joined Nawaz Sharif in the Punjab Cabinet . He then joined the PPP .
As a Foreign Minister , he was reputed to travel by chartered flights( news
reports said that).
5.
Having lived and traveled to the west , you must be aware
that there is a shadow cabinet or a Government in waiting . Who are the members
of your shadow cabinet ? The same faces Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri , Shah Mahmood
Qureshi , Azam Swati , Sardar Asif Ali ,Pervez Khattak ? Will there
be places for Asif Zardari , Khurshid Shah , Ch . Pervez Elahi , Maulana Fazal
ur Rehman if they want to join it ? Will there places for old hands of the
party viz Asif Alavi , Justice Wajiduddin ? I fear there will be difference
between the old parties in power and your party .
6.
After two big
public meetings , where is your so called ‘tsunami ? Your so called
‘tsunami’ has proved to be damp squid .
7.
In a recent
uproar of your alleged of your wrongdoing with Zakat money of
Shaukat Khanum Hospital’s .It is heartening to read rejoinder to Khwaja Asif
issued by Imtiaz Hussain Hydery , Executive
Vice Chairman, HBG, my old friend and class fellow. In the 1990s ,
too, there were allegations of your fathering a child out of wedlock
. I thought you were then young and many youth sow wild oats . But this is more
serious . And why the Government is supporting you ?
8.
A couple of
months ago , there were news reports of allegations of land grabbing against
some office bearers of your party . What action did you take against them ? Of
course those reports died down a week later .
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9.
In March 2009
in the long march for the restoration of the judiciary
, it was being said that you hid yourself for fear of arrest
.
Yours sincerely
Mahfooz ur Rahman
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