ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has announced that his party will forge an alliance with ‘emerging’ political parties to provide the people with an alternative to the parties based on dynastic politics like the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in the next general election.
“My party will campaign to bring likeminded politicians on a single platform to win more seats in the coming elections,” Khan told a news conference on Tuesday. “The Pakistani nation wants an end to politics of musical chairs,” he added.
The PTI, which recently accelerated its campaign against the government policies, is all set to contact the politicians disillusioned with their parties, sources in PTI told The Express Tribune. The PTI chairman has contacted PML-F leader Jahangir Tareen, who had recently announced that he would launch a new political party of ‘clean politicians’ in September, they added.
Renegade members of all political parties, inclined to join the alliance would be contacted, said PTI leader Zahid Hussain. Party sources said that the likely candidates are former PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon, PPP Senator Safdar Abbasi, Naheed Khan, former minister of state Omar Ayub, Javed Hashmi, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Sikandar Bosan, political rival of Premier Gilani’s family as well as other dissidents of the PML-N, PML-Q and PPP will soon be contacted. The PTI may also link up with the Sindh National Front and Pakistan Muslim League-Functional.
The PTI chief said that the government should be held accountable for its refusal to implement the Supreme Court’s orders. “The Supreme Court should start contempt of court proceedings against the prime minister for violating its orders,” he said.
Contempt proceedings should also be initiated against President Asif Ali Zardari for holding two offices in defiance of the Lahore High Court verdict and exercising his powers as the PPP’s chief executive in contravention of the constitution. “The government’s consistent defiance of the apex court is leading to anarchy in the country,” he added.
“Criminals are on the rampage in Karachi and law of the jungle prevails everywhere,” Khan said. “It is high time the chief justice held the chief executive of the government and the state accountable under Article 6 of the constitution.”
He welcomed new political entrants to the PTI and said that his party’s membership was open to all honest politicians irrespective of their past political affiliations.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 27th, 2011.
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The entire nation hopes and prays for Imran's success. If he's ever in power, he needs to enforce laws such that the electoral process changes from favoring the landed and the powerful, the thugs to a point where the average joe can get votes.
@Ehsan Haq: i dnt get this mind set .. if that person gets going alone ,you have a problem , and if he tries to take others with him even then there is a problem ,,, i guess you people actualy looters like the people rulling and destroying us since 3 decades
IMRAN KHAN should accept all kind of people in his party but giving the ticket is different there he should be careful and check which one is better then all in that area so then give ticket to them. one very important point that people who are leaving their parties like Marvi and Qureshi so they will demand higher position in the party which will be hard for Imran khan ......
He is right when says both the major parties are not dependable they has made the apex court a fun by violaing its verdicts.
The way I see it, there are corrupt politicians and very corrupt politicians, the ones we need to choose is less corrupt and keep national interest infront of them as a agenda item#1. Then within six months shuffle the cabinet around and get rid of these corrupt people and charge them in the court of law and put them in jail and proper jail not just remand them or bail them before arrest. The law has to be strong on this matter. Secondly, clean up the instituions, like tax collection, CBR, excise and taxation, tranport, stop mega projects which are not in national interest and increase tax on the agri land and cut down on the begging bowl for more aid. These needs to be sweeping reforms across all board and then we are talking of some changes otherwise no change is expected, and this would be all a BS campaign....even the PTI will fail then what!...so we all the senerios needs to be balanced out and well qualified before failure as it not an option next time around. I am with you Imran Bhai! Good Luck....
Imran Khan is surely the next leader...
@Ehsan Haq:
As far as I can see its still flying and rising. You should take your blinders off.
from khyber to karachi!!! one slogan, one and only....... Imran khan!!!!!!
Only hope for PAK is Imran, Man we are with you.
Solo flight crashes, even before take-off. Like-Minded version 2. HaH !!!!
zindabad zindabad!!!! IK zindabad.... pakistan zindabad
"honest politicians" these two words together can never sound good in Pakistan. or i should say these two words are antonyms
This is a first good move from PTI to become a big party. Their open doors to clean politicians who are trapped in corrupt parties will surely give strength to PTI.