I have grown up watching Indian movies and PTV dramas and
being a sensitive, in fact hyper sensitive and someone who draws inferences
from every single observation, I have no hesitation in saying that those movies
and those dramas made an everlasting impact on my mind. The concept of “good”
and “bad”, the concept of “tit for tat” and the concept of revenge have been
the core concepts of my life. Deep down inside me, there is a kid still who
decides from his heart and no from his mind. I was just five years old when my
father for the first time took me in a corner meeting that was being held in
the street and Nawaz Sharif was the chief guest. My father gave me a garland
and asked me to put it around Mian Nawaz Sharif’s neck and so I did.
I hardly knew my whereabouts then and had no political sense
at that time of course. Time went on. Pakistan Muslim League (N) won the 1997
elections and I still remember how everyone danced in the street and on roads.
All of them were jubilant. I had no idea what made them happy because one thing
was for sure that none of them ever changed their profession and all of them
continued to be shopkeepers or salesmen, so of course they didn’t have any
personal agendas, they were happy just because they thought Nawaz Sharif was
the man who could turn their fates around and as far as I remember, things
didn’t change much in those two years that PML (N) ruled Pakistan. But there
was one moment I remember when I saw tears in my father’s eyes and those were
the moments when Pakistan became the nuclear power. I don’t know how he would
have felt when I was born, his first child, but I do remember his joy when PTV
telecasted that scene in which that Chaghi Mountain turned golden and the
people chanted Allah-o-Akbar.
Then Musharraf staged a coup. I didn’t know about it and had
no idea what happens when Martial Laws are imposed so wasn’t able to figure out
why my father was furious. But one thing I know is that I started hating
Musharraf because my father hated him from the core of his heart. However, in
the later years, I became a much bigger hater of Musharraf then my father could
ever be. A video was released by BBC in which Nawaz Sharif was shown looking at
the sun from behind the bars in the Attock Jail. I can never forget that look
on his face. I hated that scene because I knew he never deserved it.
Life went on and as a student I never took part in active
politics, though, I did like to walk with the lawyers when they protested on
the Mall Road Lahore every Thursday against Musharraf during the Lawyers’
Movement. Imran Khan became my leader for his anti-Musharraf speeches and
stances while Nawaz Sharif was out of Pakistan and I became extremely fond of
Imran when he took MQM to the task.
I used to fight for him on certain internet forums and used
to prove MQM a fascist party with everything I had. Nawaz Sharif returned to
Pakistan, elections were held in the country, Imran Khan boycotted the
elections and I didn’t vote. Imran’s hard stance against MQM continued to be
firm but then I don’t know what happened and suddenly Imran’s stance about MQM
began to soften. Then an in-camera session in the Parliament was held in which
PMLN Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had asked some tough questions
that hurt our sensitive ISI Chief General Pasha’s feelings. He said Chaudhry
Nisar was getting personal and that was the turning point of Imran Khan’s life.
Suddenly he came to realize that Nawaz Sharif was actually
the reason of all the ills that Pakistan has and he forgot all his speeches in
which he had told everyone that Nawaz Sharif was the greatest leader of our
times.
Imran
Khan made a call to Altaf Hussain from London and both of them praised each
other and each other’s parties. That was something I never hoped for. But I
still waited for Imran Khan to deny it, but he didn’t and went on to say in a
TV interview that MQM and PTI shared common grounds. That was difficult for me
to digest but we went on. Imran Khan staged a huge public gathering in 2011 and
political orphans from all parties started to move towards PTI. That was even
worse for me and I started to get annoyed by Imran Khan’s constant rhetoric
that only PMLN was responsible for whatever went wrong in the country. He never
blamed Military establishment for anything and hardly ever criticized PPP.
According to him, any problem that was there was due to Nawaz Sharif.
He kept on saying that PMLN had an under hand alliance with
PPP and that is why they didn’t take any steps against PPP but the fact is that
NRO was taken to courts by PMLN, Khwaja Asif was petitioner against Raja Pervez
Ashraf and same was the case with Memogate in which Nawaz Sharif himself became
a petitioner. Imran Khan kept declaring it an alliance but then there was high
time. Gillani was convicted by Supreme Court but didn’t resign. Nawaz Sharif
called for all the parties to run a campaign against Gillani but it was Imran
Khan this time, who instead of demanding a resignation from Gillani, demanded
one from PMLN. I updated my status on Facebook that Imran Khan was no more my
leader.
Since then I have been actively supporting PMLN on every
forum, be it social media or the ground. I have worked for my party and I
believe that all the hard work that Shahbaz Sharif has done during the past few
years will certainly pay this time and Nawaz Sharif will emerge as victorious.
Maybe my family and my father’s affiliations with PMLN’s ideology proved to be
a catalyst but the fact is that it was Imran Khan’s U Turns that became the
main reason for it.
Today, after being a PMLN supporter for the last year or so,
I can proudly say that I am no more an Imran Khan Hater any more. In fact he
has become irrelevant for me again like he was in 1999 and 2002. He has become
just another politician for me who keeps abusing Nawaz Sharif for no reason.
Today, I am a proud Nawaz Sharif lover again and the only goal I see before me
today is making Nawaz Sharif the Prime Minister of Pakistan. I have to avenge
my father’s tears. I have to avenge those footages released by BBC in which
Nawaz Sharif stood behind the bars in Attock Jail. Those footages haunt me.
Revenge is a must. And revenge we will get.
Nawaz Sharif was arrested from Prime Minister House my goal
is to make Nawaz Sharif hold the same office. Prime Minister House is Nawaz
Sharif’s destiny and I am a proud part of the team that is working for this
goal’ a team that I proudly call “The Mega Herd of Lions” and every single
supporter of PMLN is a part of this team. We are people from various races of
life but one thing holds us together and that is our mission i.e.
#WazirEAzamNawazSharif
