PTI to present four point in APC, says Imran. PHOTO: AFP
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will present its four points in the All Parties Conference (APC) conveyed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to put the country on the right path, said PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday.
Imran was addressing the Insaf Labor Convention at Awain-e-Iqbal in Lahore.
He said that he wanted to start a dialogue to end terrorism and take Pakistan out of the “US” War on Terror.
He added that he would suggest that we “adopt a policy of reconciliation in the tribal areas (based) on the pattern of Nelson Mandela’s policy.”
Imran will also propose military operation against those who don’t negotiate “but once again call an APC before launching the military operation.”
“I requested a small meeting with interior minister, chief of army staff and prime minister behind closed doors before the APC because Khyber-Pakhunkhwa is the province most affected by terrorism. I want to know what the government policy on drone strikes is,” he added.
“We will try to stand united against terrorism because without getting rid of this menace Pakistan cannot progress,” he added.
Addressing the convention Imran said that PTI was taking practical steps for the welfare of labourers and an Accountability Bill was being drafted in KPK. He said big fish involved in corruption would be nabbed under the Accountability Law in K-P.
“A football manufacturing factory in Sialkot became world famous for its product just because the owner did one thing. He took good care of his labourers. Pakistan will get blessings if the labourers are taken care of, but here, they are kept like slaves,” he added.
Imran added, “When I met Mahathir Mohammad I questioned him about privatisation. He said the privatisation which benefits the country is good but the one which benefits a group of people is harmful. This is what has been happening in Pakistan. The poor keep getting poorer and the rich even richer.”
The PTI chairman said that laborers couldn’t get their rights until they take to the roads. “We don’t have supremacy of law here. You (labourers) will not be heard if you don’t speak up for your rights. We have the law of the jungle here,” he said.
Imran said he feared conditions would worsen for labourers in days to come as 70% of the parliamentarians in Pakistan didn’t pay taxes.
“Our government gave the rich the chance to take their black money out and then bring it back through banks and make it white money. Tax collection in this country is one of the poorest in the world. We have to do two things for development: end corruption and US war on terrorism,” he maintained.
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"we “adopt a policy of reconciliation in the tribal areas (based) on the pattern of Nelson Mandela’s policy.” During the truth and reconciliation of Great Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu had open hearings where the perpetrators of atrocities have given the details of their criminal acts and showed remorse. They apologized for all these actions against the innocent and promised not to do that again and gave up the powers. Are our TTP apologists going to demand this from our terrorist brothers? Would they openly admit their crimes, murders and blowing up of tens of thousands of Pakistanis? Would they truly stop doing that against minorities, Ahmedi and Shia Muslims? Would they acknowledge the smaller sects of Islam as equal Muslims? Would they give up their arms and beg for forgiveness? Not in a million years!
Sir Asif Ali Zardari is the real Nelson Mandela of Pakistan.
@PTI:
"thats how real lion roars…..love u IK"
Have you ever seen a real lion in your 'real' life?
@zafar: You like the idea of reinventing the wheel don't you! Why are we using things from other countries like mobile, cars, TVs etc etc. ???
Dear Imran which world do you live, you talk about Mandala,Mahathir Mohamed and Lee kuan . Pakistan is not South Africa, Malaysia or Singhapore. Pakistan has different realities. Please tell us you are with pepole of Pakistan or with terrorists .
@Nas: Yes sir,casualities of your own "freedom fighters" for whom the main,if not the exclusive, target is innocent Pakistanis.
90 days are over now................
@Aysha M: May be we should give amnesty to MQM as well - expunging them from all the crimes against humainty BARING they voluntarily retire from politics an promise not to repeat their sins?
A guy originally from Karachi.@Aysha No one "butchered" our army men. Casualties happen in every war and that is what happened to us too! If our military can 3 fight full scale wars against an enemy 5 times our size(India) and defend ourselves I'm very sure our armed forces are also completely capable of stamping out these miscreants if the need arises.
Where South Africa was concerned the different sides were generally educated and wanted to seriously move forward - where Pakistan is concerned there is no way the Taliban and their benefactors - the political maulvis - will want to 'share power' or change from their current position, simply because of the benefits they have got on their plates from consecutive governments and the peoples unwillingness to dare criticise the holybeardwalas.
Plus what of the tens of thousands of killed by Taliban attacks - civil and military ?- what of the schools? Who will ask them with a straight face to sit down with the extremists?
if imran khan had 50% of the vision of mahathir mohammed pakistan would be a developed country malaysia has 100% literacy and 90% fluent in english, once pakistan has that rate of literacy everything else will fall in place.
And IK would fight terrorism by putting "Jihad" back into school text-books,and segregating schools.When would he talk of taking Pakistan out of the global Jihad ,and free his country of terrorists living in his land from many countries.
@Roadkashahjada , One day you will become Shahjada of Pakistan . Keep it up .
Well done Imran, keep moving. In this lot of opportunists you are the only light for many souls.
Kuch bhi kar yaar, sirf baaten kuch kam kar! I know you are weak on understanding and explaining issues Kaptaan but no one has tied your hand to let KPK government work for people, peace and development.
“adopt a policy of reconciliation in the tribal areas (based) on the pattern of Nelson Mandela’s policy.” Ik showing his softness towards taliban. Although taliban has no compassion for us & he has never said anything about that.
He wishes to reconcile with the barbarians dug in firmly in FATA so that next time these thugs just don't barge into jails but rather give advance intimation to the KPK government which in turn will welcome these terrorists with open arms and release their brothers-in-arms voluntarily.
How much more deluded can IK be. He is still calling it US war even after more than 40000 Pakistanis have been butchered by sick minded murderers.
And this dude calls himself Tehreek-e-Insaaf. There is only one solution: annihilate these kidnappers, murderers, extortionists, criminals, terrorists, child molesters, who operate under the garb of religion. Otherwise they would continue to bite us.
I voted for PTI, but IK has completely lost it. The idiotic sheep that blindly praise their 'lion leader' need to get their heads out of the sand and urge PTI to take a confrontational stand on terrorism and law and order situation instead of coming up with one creative excuse after another.
"The poor keep getting poorer and the rich even richer.”
Can someone tell this fella that the likes of SMQ, Learjet Tareen and Khursheed Kasuri are well perched in his clan and he should at least advise them to share their loot with the "Poor."
IK did not get tire at enumerating the billions lost to corruption of ANP and MMA in KPK. How many graft cases have been initiated against the functionaries of the previous governments of KPK? Is he waiting for an accountability to pass through first before any action is taken?
Usual yap yap and pollution of air with empty and useless rhetoric.
high on talks,nthing substantial on ground
This guy has gone bonkers. Does he even know what happened in South Africa? Or he just took words right out of the air.
Dear Mr.Mohammad Sleem Awan,
1- Kindly note that disarming the people of KPK is not the solution and guarantee to bring peace in our region, you have to provide security while disarming them.
2- Punjab and army enjoyed money they have taken because of Afghan war and refugees, how will you get them out of the KPK, they are not only KPK but in all area of Pakistan.
i hope you have received my email.
regards.
How can you have reconciliation with people who are a) not native to the tribal areas b) many are foreigners c) have no will to reconcile d) do not want to function within the laws and norms of a modern society?
whts nelson mandela's policy? did he negotiate with bunch of religeous fanatics trying to take over the whole country and slaughtering people indiscriminately?whts the common ground of negotiations if the other party declares the whole pakistan and its institutions infidel? white of south africa were occupying forces who marginalised a majority for years. may be northern irish model is more relevant with the situation of pakistan but thats also abit late as fighters of 1980s and 1990s who fought in afghanistan should be rehabilitated in 90s. imran khan spends all his energy to convince pakistanis to negotiate with taliban. has he convinced taliban to negotiate already?
He is suggesting reconciliation with poor tribal who are not part of terrorism but victim of terrorism by taliban.This man is infinitely confused.He is fond of Mahatir Muhammad who said Nawaz Sharif a big asset of Pakistan.
Dear Mr Imran Khan, Sir, You seem to think that the war against terrorism is primarily a war that USA is fighting and that in this war USA has forced Pakistan to participate. It may be in order to remember that the rest of the world regards Pakistan as state sponsor of terror, using terror as an instrument of its policy. Prominent leaders (e.g., a British prime minister and a former French president when in office) went on record to say that 70 to 80% of global terror was traceable to Pakistan. This says something about the State of Pakistan and it is important that we do not dismiss views of that kind offhand. The war against terror that Pakistan is now fighting is really against Pakistan’s home-made terror by terrorist outfits which are probably still regarded in Pakistan as national assets. You may not like that Pakistan should be in the war against terror led by USA at present, but there is no doubt that the war against terror is also Pakistan’s own war, which it will have to continue to fight even after December 2014 when US-led ISAF will have left Afghanistan. Pakistan needs to get serious about tackling its home-made terror and take steps to eliminate terrorism from Pakistan. It must be understood that at some point the rest of the world must lose its patience with Pakistan for its continued truck with terrorism. You must be aware that at present in Pakistan power flows from the civilian government, the army, the intelligence, and the terrorist outfits, all of which seem to be pulling in the same direction. I have not read about your concern about this. It is about time that you spoke about this. V. C. Bhutani, Delhi, 8 Sep 2013, 1805 IST
The first thing terrorism doesn't exist but it has been enforced through well planned propaganda and fake war on terror, national security, writ of the government. Whose were and are so called Taliban; one must not ignore the history and the big, bigger, biggest player’s responsible behind. But the Justice will be remains prevail sooner or later.
He said this......He did this........and thats what I am going to do (someday). always quoting someone's things, wonder when he can come up with own ideas. he seems a small time man with small time talk....funny and naive example of football factory, as if only taking care of labourers will make it profitable.
Dear Sirs,
Please pass on this message to Imran Khan. Mr Khan possess very good ideas for Pakistan. Possessing ideas is one thing, do practical things is another. If he wants to reshape Pakistan then he must start from KPK with the following concrete steps:
(1) abolish all "firearms licences in KPK" on receipt of this e-Mail. No citizen of Pakistan be given the right to possess a firearm licence. This is as simple as it is.
(2) immediately remove all Afghan nationals from the soil of Pakistan on receipt of this e-Mail. There must not be any discussion on this issue. Afghan Muslims are our brothers and they must re-occupy their own home in Afghanistan without seconds delay.
If you succeed in these two important points then undoubtedly you possess leadership qualities. People of Pakistan can draw real benefits from your democratic actions.
I wish you best of luck and advise you again that you have the opportunity to deliver good for the benefit of people of Pakistan. Thank you & God Bless
Yours sincerely,
Mohammed Saleem Awan
“A football manufacturing factory in Sialkot became world famous for its product just because the owner did one thing. He took good care of his labourers..." Epic words these.
I just saw news & news & news & articles in top 10 related to KHAN talking only! I don't see any materialistic news.. like a new dam announced, few schools are built, 10 new universities are announced, roads and bridges are announced, law and order intensified in KPK.
Khan, please talk less and do more.... that will be the real news.
Bravo Imran Khan! Pakistan needs thinking like this and this man says this over and over again! We, as a nation, need to stand behind him. Let's move towards progress with someone who is not afraid to bring out of the box solutions in our country which has been persisting with the same old political structure of false promises and "reconciliation politics" for the past few decades. He's the only leader in Pakistan that actually stands against the current political structure and wants to enforce change!
Yes reconcile with those who butchered our trained military men.
As far as I remember FATA is a pakistani territory occupied by afghan, arab, and uzbek foreigners and their pak henchmen. Khan should elaborate if he wants reconcilitian with "FATA" like it is some soverign entity? Or actually he wants to reach out to occupying foreigners and appease them? khan is in a trade which is more than just placing field in qadafi stadium, and clearly he has no clue of it.
and now all the naïve-seeing everything as black and white, will start lambasting the above mentioned approach. It is extremely rare in History that one is complete angel(perhaps only Prophets) and one is complete evil.
thats how real lion roars.....love u IK