PMLN – A Personal Biography

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