Diplomatic Cross

 Imran Khan said after 22 years of struggle he finally got an opportunity to fulfill his dream and serve the nation and his party envisioned creating a Pakistan "that Jinnah dreamed of" Islamabad- Pakistan Tahreek Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has declared victory in Pakistan's election, seeing off the party of former PM Nawaz Sharif, who was jailed for corruption. Voting was marred by violence and allegations of poll-rigging. With about half the votes counted from Wednesday’s elections, Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) – Justice Movement – has a solid lead, according to the official preliminary results. The elections were marred by a gruesome suicide bombing. Some 371,000 soldiers have been deployed at polling stations across the country, nearly five times as many as during last general election in 2013. Khan addressed the nation from his home in Islamabad, vowing to investigate all complaints of rigged polls made by his opponents – the Pak...

Before descending into the electoral battle, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf may lose a large number of its die-hard workers. Favoritism and hereditary politics are the root causes of this, despite the PTI leadership claiming not to believe in them. But the situation on the ground is very different. In Faisalabad, the issue of awarding party tickets to candidates left many PTI supporters and workers annoyed. They complain that the party is giving priority to some favorites and even giving tickets to sons of disqualified politicians. Workers claim that people joining from other parties have dominated PTI and overtaken the original workers. “Senior PTI activists are angry at being ignored by the party, which is rewarding an influential family,” a local PTI leader told Media “The family joined PTI just a few days back but grabbed three tickets in a single swoop,” he said. The same situation was witnessed in Gujranwala where PTI is gearing up to face off agains...