Author: Alisha Hussain
Publisher: Hamza Rajput
Designer: Umer
‘’Imran Khan gave a lecture at Aitchison College in 1994 as part of a fundraising effort for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital, which laid out what would eventually form the basis of his political ideology. . Imran Khan spoke at length to an audience of highly privileged students about the need to avoid becoming 'brown gentlemen' - local elites who reject Pakistan's culture and history, and suffer from a chronic sense of inferiority, and Probably influenced by the West. Rooted in the country's colonial past’’.
Significantly, Khan also spoke of how the 'Brown Sahibs' who had previously controlled Pakistan — some of whom had attended Aitchison College — had effectively sold the country out, indulging in predatory corruption while pleasing the West to preserve and advance their own interests. Khan's solution was to resist the current political system and to be proud to be Pakistani.
The irony of these words was not missed by many of the young pupils in attendance. On paper, Khan was the archetypal 'Brown Sahib'; he was educated at Aitchison and Oxford, played cricket, and had spent much of his childhood living the debauched lifestyle of an international cricketer.
Cricketer-turned-politician and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan are considered the most likely to become the next leader of the country.
Khan, a populist whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has won most elections since being ousted in a no-confidence vote in April, has been critical of corruption and military dominance in politics. They attract large audiences. . They enjoy conspiracy theories and despise journalists, yet they enjoy cell phones and social media.
Looking at the country's economic position, Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf seems more popular now than when its chairman was the prime minister. But it is constantly looking over its shoulder, fearful of activities that might result in its shrinking in size. Can it leverage its apparent backing to avoid strict accountability? And what exactly does it provide to its supporters?
Imran Khan's early forays into the political and military establishment coincided with the consolidation of ideas he had pioneered in the early 1990s. As was the case with many of his ideological contemporaries at the end of the Cold War, what began as an ambivalence was the need to challenge the inequalities of the world order, the damaging legacy of colonialism, and preconceptions. Still could not fully admit it. of a corrupt local elite, raised in the belief that imaginative tradition and nationalistic sentiments were the real antidotes to corrupting outside influences.
This is the reason for Imran Khan's personal and political conversion to Islam, which led him to refrain from voting with the Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) in 2005 during the Musharraf era on Osama Bin's Protection of Women Bill. referred to. Laden is a 'martyr', and constantly portrays the Taliban and their ideology as anti-imperialist fighters 'breaking the shackles of slavery'.
Instead of an 'Evil Empire' exploiting the world's lowest nations, there was a criminal, criminal elite that could only be resisted by those with unscrupulous character and true dedication to public service.
