You know most people in Pakistan have the tolerance to listen to hack politicians like Imran Khan jabber about the state of the country because of their memory of him as a cricket star, but I think that he has gone one step too far in publicly endorsing Condoleezza Rice’s comments about Shaukat Aziz. To set the record straight, Condi, the epitome of a failed politician that is unable to get a president to listen, has written a tell-all book about how her career in politics called “Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power.”
Condi has given a laughable assessment of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who has led the economic revival in Pakistan during the Musharraf government calling him “Savile Row-suited gigolo” and that he bragged to Western diplomats “that he could conquer any women in two minutes.” First, I have never believed anything that Condi has to say because she has always been the mouthpiece of a failed US President, defending the Iraq War, the pullout of troops from Afghanistan and allowing Israel to continue to bomb Lebanon last summer. But what I find funny is that even if Shaukat said it, which I will doubt until someone can confirm it, he at least didn’t touch her, unlike US President George W. Bush attempting to give German Chancellor Angela Merkel a back rub at last year’s G8 meeting, which I think is more of a gigolo move than anything that Shaukat said.
But what is more humorous is the well-known ladies man in Pakistan, Imran Khan, trumpeting his praise of Condi’s comments. Now many of us remember Imran Khan’s colored past and for those that don’t know about his paternity cases, the Sita White love child scandal, the “adoption” of the same love child and adoption again, the demands of the love child, Jemina Khan, Imran’s ex-wife, being charged with smuggling Mughal antiques out of Pakistan illegally, and the claims that he was asked by Diana, Princess of Wales, to play Cupid so she could marry a heart surgeon. All this without even discussing the 5 million Pound Sterling campaign donation for Imran to become a politician in Pakistan from Lord Goldsmith himself.
Imran Khan is doing nothing more than trying to become a politician of record because his political party, Tehrik-e-Insaaf, has been unable to catapult him into any real spotlight as one. I quite enjoy listening to him defending his political ineptness by saying that “its a banana republic country” and “a rubber stamp parliament” for a dictator as President. But when offered opportunity to serve the nation first as Prime Minister, he refused; then again as Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, he refused again. Sounds to me like you have a confidence issue since Jemina kicked you to the curb… but then your political career has been nothing less than a comedy of errors. When he first launched himself into politics, he swore that if elected, he would hang every corrupt person in the country, needless to say he lost that election. Then, he tried to change his position, only to lose again. Tell me something Imran, do you really think that the religious parties that you side with on the opposition will give you any support come election time?
Today, Imran Khan, the “warrior for justice,” has formed a political alliance with those same people that he wanted to hang when he came into politics…. anything for a chance at power, right Imran?
Kamran Shafi provides a very interesting analysis of Imran Khan on his blog:
While he is undeniably one of the greatest sportsmen ever, and while he has to be appreciated greatly for putting up a super hospital, all of the moves he has made since taking up politics were/are ill advised, even foolish and opportunistic. He spoke deprecatingly and loudly and often against “Brown Sahibs” i.e., people who wear Western clothes in Pakistan while he himself did likewise when abroad, particularly while dancing the night away in nightclubs and joints such as the snooty Annabelle’s dressed in DJs. He wrote reams supporting Jirga justice, and against women working outside the home: he had the audacity indeed, to suggest that women were better employed having children and bringing up the next generation. There was also the matter of that paternity thing which, if handled in a straight-forward manner would have only raised Imran’s stature in the eyes of the majority of this country’s good and kind people. That is not all. He went blue in the face insisting against clear evidence, that Sir James Goldsmith was not Jewish, as if anybody gave a damn if he was. I mean if a case had to be made against an Establishment which might try and turn Sir James’ religion into a stick with which to beat Imran, he could have countered with invoking the name of Henry Kissinger out of whose hands the most powerful of the most powerful Pakistanis ate…..
In any case Jemima Goldsmith was a well-liked figure in Pakistan — when did her father’s professed religion ever colour people’s perceptions of her? More than any other instance that shows us Imran Khan’s character is that in which he was caught red-handed poaching partridges in Chakwal along with several of his influential friends. Now, while the game-watcher who challaned Imran and friends for the crime and confiscated the shot birds insists he was the man who booked him, Imran has consistently stuck to stout denial. While there is over-whelming evidence, the man will simply not admit his fault and apologize and promise he will never poach again. It is another matter that the State failed to prosecute him at the time because the wheels of influence and back-scratching came into motion and brought the whole proceeding to a grinding halt. It is yet another matter that in a country where very few in government do an honest days work, a poor game-watcher did his with great courage. May I once more call upon the Big General to take note of the game-watcher’s diligence and award him a high civil award. Worse than any of the above of course, is Imran Khan’s putting his lot in with the backward cleric for political expediency. By far the worse. There is time, however, for Imran Khan to apologize for his past transgressions and redeem himself in the eyes of the people, just as there is time for others in public life.
But while Imran Khan is busy making a spectacle of himself, the leaders of the nation have passed the Women’s Protection Bill, repealing a highly controversial section of the Hudood Ordinance; revived the national economy to the point of Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves reaching record levels (US$ 13 billion); stood outside and watched Pakistan regain ex-pat and foreign investor confidence to be able to slowly start building stability and lower the national debt; a massive growth in the IT revolution with foreign owned IT parks planned around the country; and watch the country come under one national cause: Sub Sey Pehley Pakistan (Pakistan First).
So I am left to ask one question: Imran Khan… what have you done for us lately?
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for the Believers in Quran.
