Anything but a Man of Honour

Some people are beyond words and Imran Khan is one of them. I was researching him on YouTube and one interview was more than enough, in which he said that he was privileged to be respected in his country and no other person besides himself has the position that he has. Now this is what I call “a complete lie.” I will begin by narrating an experience close to home. My brother was studying in the London School of Economics and he was organizing a seminar over there. He sent an e-mail to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to participate in that seminar. The PTI in turn sent him an e-mail thanking him for becoming a member of PTI. My brother was completely taken aback by this response. He then called from London and narrated the incident. At first he took it as a joke and as a desperate attempt from the PTI to recruit members but when the PTI started bombarding him with e-mails and started instructing him to do so and so for their party he felt harassed and started deleting their e-mails without reading them.

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It is said that tragedy always comes twice. First it was my brother’s turn, and then it was mine. In a hot summer of 2008, I was waiting in my car in F-11 markaz and there was a PTI camp nearby. They were selling tickets to recruit members for their party. One of them approached my car and started pleading that his job was at stake and he had been selling tickets in this heat all day and I should show human courtesy and purchase a ticket and become a member of PTI. I told him categorically that that I thought that Imran Khan was running a pathetic party and I didn’t want to be a part of it. He started repeating constantly, “Please Madam humari naukri ka sawal hai”. “Please Madam; it is a question of our jobs.” I finally purchased a ticket; the person selling the ticket was so keen and observant that he could tell by looking at my wallet from the car window that he could see my green NIC card from afar in a wallet filled with currency and papers. I left the market thinking I had done a good deed. Little did I know that I would start receiving text messages, e-mails from PTI, for meetings, protests and even to donate blood. When I finally informed the PTI that I was made a member by force and I purchased a membership ticket, they not only went into denial but their language was extremely sarcastic and offensive. Instead they started boasting numbers of their national and international members. By now I was completely aware of how they recruit members nationally and internationally at PTI. Finally after a war of words between myself and the PTI, I stopped getting any correspondence from them. But my experience made me familiar about the attitude of the party and what sort of people were running it. I stand by my account and with a person like Imran Khan running and heading a party, such behaviour and demeanour is not surprising.

There is a lot you get to know about a person but because you live in a society where truth becomes a lie and is subject to speculation and you are also bound by your own restrictions not to mention the restrictions and limitations imposed by the media, you choose not to speak out. This is the reason why hopeless people like Imran Khan are never shown for what they really are. And the outer image is contradictory to the inner and real image of the person. But the fact that PTI sells its membership tickets and makes members by force by e-mailing them, is enough for the time being.

Secondly, after the verdict on the NRO, Imran Khan has been constantly demanding that all NRO beneficiaries including the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, resign on moral grounds. Imran Khan is the last person to make such a demand and use morality as a basis of resignation. Imran Khan differentiates morality on two basis, morality of a person in his personal life and privacy, and morality of a man based on his position and responsibilities. There is an expression, “The Man makes the job” and another “The job makes the Man”. There is no such thing as bipolar personality and bipolar morality. A person in his privacy is the same when he is working. Your personal image and reputation affect the way people deal with you both personally and professionally. Those who claim they can split a person are narrating drama as this is not possible in practical life.

Imran Khan is a person who has brought this country shame time and again through news published about him in English tabloids. He is equally notorious in social circles nationally and internationally. You don’t even have to open his video on Youtube to see the content in them. He denounced the west with "its fat women in miniskirts," when he has an alleged track record that would make one’s head spin, from Sita White, Goldie Hawn, Susanne Constantine, Lady Liza Campbell, and many fat western women who compared the moralist Imran Khan to a “stalker”. Another name was Indian actress Zeenat Aman. How can a man who has been alleged with so many women many a times come up with one excuse that he is a victim of his celebrity. A celebrity that is really no more. Imran Khan is a politician with no following, no support, no substance, and nothing to offer. He keeps himself alive as a TV politician but it is so easy for the Pakistani public to make him vanish by just using a button on their TV remote controls. His record at western nightclubs is equally shameful but most shameful is how he treated his daughter Tyrian. The poor child suffered so much sadness and desertion at such a young age. Imran Khan is not a party animal gone puritan and nationalist. Wearing Shalwar Kameez won’t do nor will speaking rhetoric on national television. A “Chola” and “words” are cosmetic; they don’t change the real person. The MQM justifiably called him "a sick person who has been a total failure in politics and is alive just because of the media coverage”. The Guardian newspaper in England described Khan as a "miserable politician," And why shouldn’t they? Has Imran made even a pin drop change in the political scene in Pakistan? Has he brought any change at all? The answer to that is “No.” Personalities like Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, General Pervez Musharraf, are the politicians who have both respect and a following and they have votes to prove it. While General Pervez Musharraf is having a resurrection, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani and Mouhsin-e-Pakistan Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan are personalities all Pakistanis look up to. Not someone desperate like Imran Khan. There is only one sentence that will describe Imran Khan the best, “Once a loser, always a loser. The eternal failure.”