Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is becoming the torch bearer within the society. The amount of change and its impact is tremendous through efforts of PTI’s chairman, Imran Khan, leadership at different tiers and most importantly through the youth of Pakistan that will contribute to the success and building this momentum. But we need to do more. In order to understand and deliver to the expectations of a Pakistani citizen, we need to ensure that we have all the mechanisms in place at all levels to promote this message of self-esteem, freedom and justice and to turn this message into evidence through our processes, teams and infrastructure and policies. We are to be seen to be carrying that message in all corners and quarters.
The student body of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, Insaf Student Force (ISF) is the major component of carrying this message to all quarters through debate and dialogue, through protests and assembling of students in universities, and the streets of Pakistan. The same message of change is reverberated across the international boundaries where Pakistani community is and the students. The echoes are to be found everywhere. Also in each constituency the new PTI PCO structure is taking its real form and shape and signatures of grass root penetration and the prospects of people keen to take part, work and deliver those goals as per PTI ideology, mission statements and its manifesto are becoming more visible and engaging.
The roles and responsibilities to make this happen are challenging and huge but it can be done. It is this responsibility we all as individuals, all as cohesive teams as one unit and all as a nation have to share. It is our responsibility. We need to feel this change as we feel our thirst and hunger, the basic requirements which drives us forward in all walks of life and the endeavour that result in to pursue that. We need to feel this change and contribute as we contribute in our daily lives in all we do; from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep. There is a purpose in our existence to see what’s happening around us and we can bring that change.
We will be asked these questions how we as individuals contributed towards betterment of our society- It will be our conscience where these questions will come from and we need to make sure our conscience is alive and feels the need and the hour of importance. It is in our hands to make that difference as we cannot rely on outsiders. We cannot rely on IMFs and all the other institutions of the world and the governments. It is us who will have to change and be those proponents of clarity, tolerance and understanding.
We have to become like Quaid-e-Azam and Iqbal, and all those people who contributed towards creation of Pakistan and those millions of sacrifices by all those people for whom the purpose was so great and essential. We have to become like Jinnah and Iqbal. We need to find them inside us. Once we have found them, then there will be no stopping.
Pakistan is one of the most fertile places on this planet earth: It carries huge natural resources; the land is beautiful as no other. But the mistakes of the past cannot be repeated. We need to look at our past to learn from it but not live, and move forward. It is this responsibility which carries its burden upon our souls and we must carry that with dignity and pride. Change will happen. Progression to freedom and justice is in sight and for that we must unite and whatever we can do in our powers to spread this message.
We must not treat Pakistan and all that it encompasses – the people, the land, the resources and our heritage as a charity but as a gift. The hours of darkness will disappear into the warmth of the sun for all of us when we find ourselves and purpose.
Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf vision is to create mobilisation of resources within Pakistan by creating an infrastructure which will cope with requirements at intellectual and operational level and to support the requirements and challenges faced by the nation in all fields of science and technology, infrastructure development, job creation, stable and progressive economic model, employment creation, institutional reforms, balanced foreign policy, health, education, tax collection, natural resources and its discovery, usage and creating an infrastructure to cope with energy shortages etc. Delivery of objectives is going to require focus and speed, decisive decision making and effective control and techniques to deal with issues and challenges will be the guiding principles and paradigm to work from. PTI aims o create a riot in its most positive sense, to exploit every single opportunity that exists, every single chance that is presented, and every single options that is there to be discovered to make Pakistan, a better Pakistan – progressive, stable, reformed, healthy, educated, and most importantly in alignment with what Quaid e Azam and Allam Iqbal had in their minds. And for this concept and its purpose the time has come, as chairman ended his recent book “Pakistan- my personal experience”, in the final line. Our time has finally come. The choice is yours, where do you stand? Will you respond to the need of the times and become part of this change and its ingredients which will carry us all far, as a nation and the architects of new Pakistan,- a welfare state where all the shining principles of PTI vision and ideology is applicable in evidence. We are working for the Pakistan of tomorrow and it is the responsibility of its citizens to take up that responsibility and its ownership as no one else is going to come and help us. We have to help ourselves.
As Chairman Imran Khan has repeatedly said and finished his recent book “ Pakistan- A Personal History” with the lines “ our time has come”, as the ingredients of change has been embedded in finally and PTI has begun to mobilise those resources and people. The recent All Parties conference, where Imran Khan took an excellent stand and propagated in front of all that to end this war, the means to achieve this are though peace and dialogue and with firm stance and the view he has highlighted and remained firm for past many years.
There was a time when he was making offers to all to hold dialogues with all political parties and factions there in the troubled region but no one paid attention but now the time has come. One by one, slowly but gradually this journey has seen off f the most hardest challenges for PTI where we had to hear, had to put up with all sorts of all sorts of criticism, feedback that Khan Saab does not have a good team, we cannot mobilise people, we cannot get to understand the concept of grass root penetration and break the bonds of “Baraderi System”.
Finally, this view has begun to resurface from all quarters in the form of agreement with his stance that war was never ours and it was not the means to achieve the political dialogue and solutions. Political dialogue and solution is the process of politics; PTI understands the need and maintains the stand that solutions for the betterment of Pakistan cannot be fabricated by non- political forces or in the corridors of Washington. It is going to be done through the ballot box and the people of Pakistan will deliver their verdict to all status quo parties and stake holders, that now the need for old setups and politics will not become the necessity for the Pakistan of tomorrow.
But gradually the change has evolved into its own form and life, it is happening as we every day hear and witness the very things which were not happening. Whether it was the anti-drone protests in Peshawar, Karachi, Quetta, Multan, Islamabad, or the numerous Jalsas all around the country in Faisalabad, Peshawar, Multan, Gujerenwalla, etc. the participation of people and the message they have taken of change is been of absolute importance and significance.
As PTI has begun to evolve its internal infrastructure, offices, SMS campaigns, and whole hosts of initiatives to bind those aspirations of people and to carry it forward has required all sorts of support. The impact which will bring us to a stage where the first stages will see its completion of awareness and engagement and then we begin to move into the second stage- preparation for general election in 2013, winning it and start delivering with focus and speed, all these plans which are being forked out whether IRW, 100 day plan or the level of input needed to communicate and implement effective policies at all levels, to bring peace and security, to inject new reforms in our health and education system, and to introduce radical changes in taxation system, infrastructure, and all that creates a state and its institutions and the policies for the welfare of people of Pakistan.
For the first time in Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, there is now an ample evidence that when responsibilities and opportunity is given to people dedicated on working at different levels to help PTI and its initiatives, then people responsible for it , do deliver as well and the evidence is found in different areas of Pakistan where PTI structure is taking place as we speak- These individuals are raw, dedicated, passionate, committed and trying their best to help the party in all forms and shapes and their endeavour is create those mechanisms and momentum which will create the big surge for change.
Our destinies and fate, in one way or another tied in with this Pakistan and its people. If we believe in ourselves, then we could do wonders and inshallah this will happen as I see enough evidence of this strange and rare experience in front of my own eyes how people light up when they talk about Pakistan and what it can achieve in terms of having its place amongst the modern nations what it deserves but we all start somewhere. It is our opportunity to explore what is not been done before……and you all are owners of this experience and opportunity.
PTI definitely presents an opportunity to explore the potential, the human intellect and passion we all carry in our hearts and minds. This is the time to manifest that reflection which we carry in our hearts and that pain which binds us all together.
One day we will all look back with great satisfaction that yes we did our bit and to the best of our ability without any interest, without any favours, to be able to stand tall in our eyes, our conscience, and most importantly in front of Almighty Allah for what he gave us – the intellect to make a difference through our behaviours and approach and the sense of humanity and the resources he showered upon us all. We will be questioned one day and those questions will be asked here as well of all what we could have done and explored…….
Let’s create history by not being dependent on future historians, let’s start writing it ourselves….Lets engage and click together for the welfare and progression of Pakistan and its citizens and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf is doing all it can to spread the message to all corners through its plans and approach to become the party to lead Pakistan out of its turmoil and mayhem of the past. PTI vision is to have a new Pakistan, a welfare state where justice, humanity and self-esteem is seen to be prevailed within the society, in its instruments of operation at all levels and where we have people can display their intellect and commitment through all walks of life.
ASIM KHAN
The distant stars,
