Daily Times

Dear Imran Khan! First of all congratulations on achieving yet another apparently impossible task. Thank you for proving to us that big dreams can be achieved by tenacity, perseverance and refusal to accept defeat. Thank you for giving us hope, when everything was fading away. Thank you for being our torchbearer amid dark and gloom. As usual you went for impossible, turned it into your goal and finally made it possible.

We know that the journey had definitely not been easy and you went through a lot during these 22 long years of your struggle and hardships for Naya Pakistan, but all the sacrifices you have made for this noble cause have paid really well. Your utmost honesty, dedication and insight are really inspiring which brought to us a new beginning. Had Faiz Ahmad Faiz been alive today, he would have definitely said

“Ye wohi sehar hay jis ki arzu lay kar chalay thay yaar kay mil jaigi kahin na kahin”

As we celebrate our accomplishment and look forward to a promising future, your impressive victory speech shown your transformation from a vocal politician to a mature statesman. Meanwhile,  I have been thinking a lot about the hopes you gave us. I am using the term “We” because I believe I am speaking for a lot like me. We are not your cricket fans or charmed by your looks, in fact we never saw you playing cricket .

We supported you for your vocal stance against the status quo, we followed you for your honesty and bravery and the dreams you have shown us of a bright future and for the promises you have made in every speech we listened during every rally we attended from Aabpara when there were only a few dozen demonstrating against the release of Raymond Davis to big power shows of Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar, we stood by you as you stood by us. We promised you that we will strengthen you in making Naya Pakistan and here we have fulfilled our promise, now it is your turn to comply with your obligation by curing the ills of society like lawlessness, injustice, inflation, corruption, war, pollution and by bringing improvement in employment, education, health, security, infrastructure, and environment.

We all know the history of broken promises made by almost every leader of Pakistan; these shallow campaign slogans brought us this far into the dark corridors where circumstances are precariously ripe for chaos.  But we have confidence that this time the outcome would be different, as we have trust in you that you will never ever forget the reason you came in politics in first place.

If you fail to deliver, Pakistan will plunge into anarchy and history will never forgive you and will always remember you the worst.

We have strong conviction that you will fulfill all our shattered dreams and will bring the change you promised us, the change which is inevitable, and the change which will once again raise Pakistan to Asian Tiger. We are fully aware of the challenges that lay ahead but again you are the best person for this job, you got everything required to overcome these challenges and hurdles.  You are the one who taught us that nothing in life is impossible.