The following email was sent by
the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice, PTI) to large number of
Pakistanis in the US. They are making huge general and empty claims of planning
to change the political and social structure of Pakistan, without specifying
what these changes would be and how these would be brought about. Like most
other candidates and politicians, Imran Khan is a rich man and is part of the
capitalist class and system. Most of the people that he has put in key positions
in his party have similar upper class backgrounds. Therefore, it would be
delusionary and foolish to expect any real or radical changes in the political
economy, class relations, or distribution of wealth, property, and resources,
even if, by some miracle, the PTI wins political power in Pakistan. The PTI does
not have any such concrete and specific program. In the absence of such a
program, chanting Insaf and giving the name of Insaf to the movement, is empty
rhetoric at best. Like anyone else and everywhere else, the choices, goals, and
decisions of Imran Khan and PTI’s top leadership are and will be limited and
determined by their upper class interests. Any changes would be cosmetic and
minor at best. Moreover, Imran Khan himself has cultivated a personality cult in
his party and in Pakistan. Only the necessary politico-economic changes, which
require changes in the class relations and class power, can create the real
possibilities and grounds for Insaf. Such great changes can only be brought
about by class conscious mass movements, based upon concrete and effective
strategy, tactics, goals, and objectives for changes in the class structure,
class relations, and replacing the dictatorship of the capitalist and feudal
classes-disguised as “electoral democracy”-by dictatorship of the working class
and its allies, which would progressively be transformed into real economic and
political democracy for everyone in the society. Such great changes cannot be
brought about even by the incomparably greater personalities than Imran Khan,
who based his personality cult and popularity on the basis of his having been a
competent cricket player and captain of the Pakistani cricket team. Most of the
effective revolutionary leaders throughout the world always had extensive
background in political economy, philosophy, history, and social sciences, and
were deep and original thinkers, as well as mentally relatively free from the
domination of money and property. They were allied with and based in the
struggle of the common working class and its allies for replacing the political
power of the capitalist and feudal classes with the political power of the
working class and its allies. Undoubtedly, there are such people in Pakistan
too. However, the shallow, opportunist, hypocritical, and money-and
property-worshipping mass psychology and culture and the mass media in Pakistan
do not allow such potential leaders to come to the fore. To the contrary, they
are blocked every step of the way by such mass psychology and culture. And then
there is the widespread nauseating hypocritical lament also about the lack of
such leaders and leadership! If Pakistanis were able to reflect honestly and
thoughtfully about this great problem, they would find that they themselves are
responsible for it and for the sinister politico-economic reality and history of
Pakistan.
Getting back to the above-mentioned email about Imran Khan’s dinner in New York,
look at the costs: minimal is $250 (twenty two thousand five hundred Pak
Rupees). For the front row, it is double of that ($500 or forty five thousand
Pak Rupees). But for $5,000 (four lakh and fifty thousand Pak Rupees), you get
to eat at the same table with the leader of the Movement for Justice! This
dinner reflects and represents the actual upper class nature, thinking, and
feeling of the top leadership of PTI. Most Pakistanis in the US are working
class or students and they will not be able to afford participating in such
expensive upper class gluttony, and will, hence, be excluded.
Copy of PTI Email
Eid Celebration & PTI Fundraising Dinner with Imran Khan on Friday, October 26th
at 7PM in New York
From Muzamil Anwar [email protected] details
To PTI New York [email protected]
Asalam o Alykum dear brothers and sisters,
We hope you are well. This Eid is going to be extra special because Chairman PTI
Imran Khan is coming to New York and we have arranged a fundraising dinner with
him to benefit PTI so together we can bring real change in Pakistan. The Eid
Celebration & Fundraising Dinner with the Chairman will be held at Soundview
Studios, Long Island City, NY on Friday, October 26 at 7:00 pm.
We have also received the news that Founding member and Ex Women's Wing PTI Mrs.
Fauzia Kasuri will also be attending the event.
Chairman Imran Khan believes that Overseas Pakistanis are Pakistan's biggest
asset. He wants all Pakistani Americans to make contributions to PTI so together
we can fight the Status-quo that has brought Pakistan down to It's knees. PTI is
the only political party in the history of Pakistan running exclusively on
public funding, and your support will bring real change in the next election.
All the money raised will be used to change the Political as well as Social
Structure of Pakistan by implementing the Law, Rules and Regulation Across the
board InshAllah.
This is your chance to have dinner with the man who has become a symbol of hope
for over 180 million people and contribute much needed funds towards the
struggle that will ensure a better Pakistan for us and our future generations.
Please come with your family and friends and pour your hearts and wallets out to
save Pakistan's future! Please purchase your tickets ASAP because of the limited
availability.
When: Friday, October 26 at 7:00 pm
Where:
Soundview Studios
36-01 37th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
Tickets:
$250 General Admission
$500 Front Row
$5,000 for a Seat on Imran Khan's Table
** Special Offer for Students: Sell 20 seats and get your ticket free!!
How to purchase your tickets:
Please send an email to: [email protected] with the number of tickets you
would like and mail the check over to the address below.
Please be sure to make the checks payable to PTI USA LLC. Please note that your
seats are not confirmed till we receive the check.
You can mail the checks to:
Diamond Dazzlers Inc. (PTI Fundraiser)
377 East Fordham Rd
Bronx, NY 10458
For additional information, please send an email to [email protected] or
contact our wonderful team below:
Mehmood Awan (New York) 321-624-8225
Ch. Akbar Ali (Washington D.C.) 703-598-3908
Amjad Nawaz (New York) 917-416-4357
Arif Sohni (New York) 917-578-5621
Yasir Ali (Westchester, NY) 646-852-0262
Basit Irfan (New York) 917-455-5463
Muzamil Anwar (New York) 914-512-8448
Abdul Qayyum Chaudry (New York) 516-551-8475
Abdul Rehman Malik (New York) 516-606-1786
Mohammad Akram (New York) 917-468-1938
Faisal Irshad (New York) [email protected]
Tahir Effendi (Upstate New York) 518-369-7694
Saleem Bhatti (Upstate New York)) 518-221-5075
Umar Mukhtar (Upstate New York) 518-331-9593
Mehreen Saeed (New Jersey) 732-689-5864
Nauman Chaudhry (New Jersey) 732-272-5549
Shoaib Choudhry (Pennsylvania) 732-688-9552
Yaser Buttar (Maryland) 410-206-4265
Nadia Ahsan (Massachusetts) (413)505-9829
Rashid Shaikh (Massachusetts) 774-641-0851
Muhammad Ishtiaq (Virginia) 703-424-5900
Looking forward to seeing you at the event InshAllah.
JazzakAllah Khair,
Muzamil Anwar
PTI-New York
Cell: 914-512-8448
https://twitter.com/MuzamilAnwar
https://www.facebook.com/muzamil.anwar
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