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Long time ago, highly impressed with Mr. Imran Khan's core principles, i used to send emails to him stating that i am at the service of his party, my life i am putting at his feet, all my life i will devote to PTI for sole purpose of the betterment of the people of Pakistan. I do not want any designation, post or title. I never received any reply.

When the Chief Justice was coming to Pakistan in May 2007 i got a call from a senior leader of PTI. He told me they have read my emails and asked me to come to the airport to receive the CJ. I did as was told, but there was no public transport on that day. So i decided to walk till the airport on that hot summer day. I live in DHA so it's a long distance.

When i reached the Baloch Colony Flyover on Shahra-e-Faisal i was stuck under the bridge for several hours in the firing. It was as if a war is going on. With much difficulty i and a few others managed to run from a side lane, taking the risk of being fired upon us from behind. By the way, nobody knew who is from which party in that crowd. Everybody was just running here and there.

I never got any email, call, or even verbal appreciation, you know, nothing. Not even a salam. I mean, of course i was not asking for a medal, i know what i did was nothing, zero compared to what the real heros of this country do. But when i saw that people who sit in air-conditioned offices get all the recognition and praises, i feel that it's their wealth that's getting them the respect. I have lived in western countries, and i got more respect there as a cleaner than i will ever get in Pakistan. I know that from my whole life's experience.

Later the PTI started their weekly then monthly meetings. Since i was subscribed to the email list, i used to also get the emails in which they would tell where and when the next meeting is taking place. I noticed the talks used to focus mainly on the people's own designations, personal benefits, who will stand for the MPA,MNA, etc., i started to speak out. I used to say that let's forget our own personal interests and focus on Pakistanis. Let's consider PTI as a NGO or a social services provider, and prepare the people to vote for PTI but let's not focus so much on personal gains. Nobody used to listen to me, then even stopped me from speaking. I used to get some hostile glances. Later I even stopped receiving invitations for the meetings.

I noticed that PTI is mainly focusing on the higher class of people, you know, the kind of people you would call "burger" people in our local slang. Their higher leadership is impressed with the elite class, glamorous snobbish English speaking kind of people. I think those people do not represent the masses of Pakistan.

I wrote all this because i notice the overseas Pakistanis are very impressed PTI. What is the guarantee that when they come to power they will not become like PPP and others? Maybe Mr. Imran Khan is the righteous person, but how do we know about the others? Just look at the names of people who had stood for elections on the PTI ticked in previous elections. Those people are such snobs they don't even shake hands with poor people.

Everybody is an angel when they are not in power. What I would like to suggest is that there is a need for a new movement. I am not saying new party because we don't need parties we need Pakistan and more important than Pakistan i think are Pakistanis. It should be called a "BENAAM" movement. Or this movement can be called PNSP (Party Nahi, Sirf Pakistani). There will be no titles, designations in this party. There will be carefully prepared document that each person standing for elections must legally sign in a court of law, and even declare that he will stand resigned automatically if he fails or breaks from the rules of that document. We will tell the masses to vote only for the person who has legally signed that document in front of a magistrate. Even if anybody does not want to vote for a person from this movement they can vote for the opposing person too, but make sure that person has signed in public view that document. The document should be available to the public to verify.

I have thought of what should be mentioned in this documents. I will write more of that later. For now let's talk about why i am saying we need this change. Let's talk of the CJ. For how many years he has been a senior judge? Did he change anything? For over sixty years our judges always bowed to pressures of the qabza group elites classes. I purchased an apartment, have paid full amount but the mafia boss owner of the building refuses to hand over the possession to me. My children could not get a proper education, satisfy their natural hunger for sports, because my capital was stuck up with the "respectable" people of this society. I am not talking about "I". Just giving an example. Where was the CJ when millions of Pakistanis were suffering at the hands of the elites respectable people of this country? I

Musharraf inaugurated the multi-Billion sports club in DHA Karachi. Even the congratulation themselves advertisement in DAWN and other media was in hundreds of millions of rupees. But that Firoun Yazid Musharraf did not think that over 70% people of his so called "Pakistan First" country do not have clean drinking water? MUSHARRAF's name will DEFINITELY go down in history as the world's worst firoun. Safai should start from the top, rewards should start from the bottom. He should have felt ashamed spending our trillions on useless trivialities, giving away our natural reserves worth trillions for free to his "white" masters with whom he felt so impressed. The reason i mention this here is show the similarity with PTI. They are also very impressed with the "posh" people. Their party is being run only by these people. What does that show about their core mentality? Will they be able to deliver for Pakistanis?

I am deliberately not writing much about the injustices going on in Pakistan. I can write ten pages right now. But have written much before too, for the past fifteen years i have been writing against elitism and the real reasons behind the problems of Pakistan. I don't want to make this more long now.