Similarities between PML-N & PTI

IMRAN TALIB FAKE KHAN AND NAWAZ SHARIF LOHAR,BOTH SUPPORT HARDLINE ISLAMIST,TALIBAN AND BOTH ARE SUPPORTED BY PAKISTANI ESTABLISHMENT(MILITARY)AND JUDICIARY.

FOLLOWING ARE SOME OTHER SIMILARITIES REPROTED IN ''THE NEWS''.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) locked in a relentless verbal bout, indicating how poles apart are their approaches. Yet quite surprisingly, they both have some striking similarities as well. Politically speaking, the PML-N and PTI both spare no occasion to unleash attack on the former military ruler ex-president General Pervez Musharraf and the incumbent regime, though of late, they mostly target each other’s leadership. Now, the leaders of both parties want the Supreme Court to decide whether Nawaz is corrupt or Imran, after having almost exhausted their energies on the subject through media conferences and television talk shows. Taking lead, Imran has already announced to sue PML-N’s Khawaja Asif for his corruption charges against him. On the issue of general election, again these two parties share unanimity: they want early elections after seeing back of this PPP-led ruling coalition, which they allege, has failed to deliver on any front, holding it responsible for most of the crises Pakistan faces today. There is again a similarity in their political strategy to welcome in their folds, herds of those who remained a key part of Musharraf regime: though it is said the PTI took lead in opting for this line of action to boost its electoral prospects, welcoming several ‘electables’. These two parties have proved through their actions that for them political expediency is the short-cut to achieving ‘objectives’. Well over 100 politicians, who remained a part of the PML government during 2002-2007,some of them so close to the ex-military ruler, are today associated with the PTI. Few of these are Jehangir Tareen, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, Sikandar Bossan, Dr Shahzad Waseem, Faiz Tamman, Awais Leghari, Jamal Leghari, GG Jamal, Ishaq Khaqwani, Shahid Akram Bhinder, Malik Amin Aslam, Farooq Amjad Mir and Aila Malik. Khaqwani was perhaps the only exception, who would openly disagree over some of the then government policies from the PML platform. Past is past. They all today sit with Imran, who, used to obediently listen to sermons of Musharraf yesterday: how will Imran succeed in changing the rotten political system in Pakistan with this lot is anybody’s guess. Feeling a direct threat from the PTI, PML-N leadership, which had declared in categorical terms that those who were part of Musharraf’s PML regime, would never be accommodated in the party again, received with open arms many in recent months: they include even Amir Muqam, an erstwhile close friend of Musharraf, who had once proudly announced to have been gifted a pistol from him for his safety. There is a long list of the PML leaders, who jumped on to the PML-N bandwagon: some of these are; Tariq Azeem, Tahir Iqbal, Zahid Hamid, Sumera Malik, Safdar Shakir, Saima Akhtar Bharwana, Naeem Hussain, Ghulam Murtaza Maitla, Mansoor Hayat Tamman, Azeem Chaudhry and his spouse Asiya Azeem. Azeem was one of the leading characters as chief organiser behind the formation of the PML over a decade ago, mostly consisting of PML-N faces. Moreover, his wife remained MNA on women reserved seats. Sumera, Tariq Azeem, Tahir Iqbal are among those, who also served in the cabinet during Musharraf rule. Around 45 PML forward bloc is also a part of PML-N, which has also developed a special relationship with PML-Like-Minded that includes Salim Saifullah, Humayun Akhtar and others. With this lot of ex-comrades of Musharraf, the PTI and PML-N want to change the status quo and combat corruption. On apolitical front, the PML-N and PTI leaders share commonality in the form of having their (two each) sons abroad: Imran has his two sons-Sulaiman Khan and Qasim, living in London with their maternal grandmother; while Nawaz Sharif too has two sons-Hasan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz abroad, doing business. Imran’s sons during school vacation days, visit their father in Pakistan, spend some days with him at his sprawling Bani Gala residence, playing with their cricket legend father. Like the PTI chairman, Nawaz Sharif loves cricket so much. But his sons don’t play cricket. Let’s wait some more similarities between these two may come up in the weeks and months to come.