Attacked with US drones, torn
apart from internal sectarian strife, Pakistan looks for a savior in a retired
sportsman
Though Imran
Khan is still the cult leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has grown around,
there are now other recognizable faces in that young political party’s
leadership. Fauzia Kasuri is one of those four or five prominent persons that
came to mind when you think of the PTI top brass. On Sunday, March 10, Kasuri
spoke to a 60-plus gathering of PTI supporters passionately—and with
troublesome religious overtones—about the need for a change in Pakistan,
claiming her boss, Imran Khan, can turn things around in that troubled country. The fund-raiser, organized by the Bay Area
chapter of PTI was held at the Mehran Restaurant in Newark.
While many young
starry-eyed Pakistanis are swayed by Imran Khan’s charm, historians are taking
notes of PTI’ promises—the two most important being that after coming in power in
Pakistan, PTI will:
Make Pakistan disassociate
itself from the US War on Terror and have US stop all drone attacks.
Wipe off all institutional corruption
within 90 days.
Besides the main guest, Dr. Dianne Budd (a Code Pink volunteer who participated
in PTI’s 2012 march in protest of US drone attacks), Shahab Siddiqui (of Mehran
Restaurant), Aftab Yaqub, Javed Tufail, and M. Irfan also spoke at the program.
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