Let it be stated and emphasized upon, that Imran Khan is no Che Guevera. He isn’t Hassan al-Banna either. Che Guevera was a revolutionary who fought in the mountains for the glory of either causes. Hassan al Banna founded a movement to bring about a transformation in the way Muslims of the enslaved countries had started to think, act and behave.
Imran Khan is a legendary achiever in the world of sports who on his retirement got possessed by a desire to enter the country’s arena of politics, and strive to acquire power and to remove the cancer of corruption from the society.
In the other words, even though the movement he founded, had an ideological goal was essentially a political party that had the same aim all the political parties were suppose to have — to win the elections whenever it could and to enter the corridors of power for the accomplishment of its ideological goals.
It is unthinkable that any political party in the world can stand any chance of flowering, growing and expanding without tons of money inducted into it.
A car doesn’t move without fuel. And fuel needs money. How can a political party move without being ‘powered’ to move?
It took Imran Khan nearly 15 years to be able to hold a public meeting like the one held on October 30, 2011 in Lahore. And thereafter in two years he was in a position to threaten to bring down the towers of power known as the PPP and the PML (N). One view is that had the elections of 2013 not been doctored, Imran Khan could have created history even at that time.
He couldn’t have done it all, if those who hurried to join his party hadn’t fulfilled the requirements that make the wheels move.
The important thing is that Imran Khan himself is neither a landlord, nor a business tycoon, nor an accomplished money-maker.
He is simply Imran Khan—the man who founded the only political party of the country, completely on his own.
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