Thread by @Sha_TJ93

This is going to be a long thread on why I am NOT going to vote for PTI. Please note: I am not saying that other parties are better or worse than PTI. This is just a critique on the politics of Imran Khan and PTI. #GeneralElections2018

1) "Absolutely deliberate - this was a deliberate targeting of the peace process" – Imran Khan on the death of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of TTP.
bbc.com/news/world-asi…

2) Imran Khan claimed that TTP commander and leader, Waliur Rehman was ‘pro-peace’. tribune.com.pk/story/560646/i… "Pro-peace" - really?

3) TTP nominated Imran Khan (amongst four others) to represent them to mediate talks with government negotiators. He eventually refused to represent them though. dawn.com/news/1084259

4) “TTP should open an office”: Imran Khan. He argued that if the US could open offices for the Afghan Taliban in Qatar, why should Pakistan not do the same? tribune.com.pk/story/609208/t…

5) KP Health Minister, Shaukat Yousafzai said the “PTI has always supported opening of a Taliban office in Peshawar” nation.com.pk/10-Mar-2014/kp…

6) KP Information Minister, Shah Farman reiterated its stance that the TTP should be allowed to establish its office anywhere in Pakistan. thenews.com.pk/archive/print/…

7) PTI granted PKR 550 million to madrassa led by Sami-ul-Haq (known as ‘Father of the Taliban’) and alma mater of Taliban leaders of past and present. atimes.com/article/pakist…

8) Imran Khan slaps and mishandles his workers and MNAs. Check @maryamful's thread for some of the recent ones caught on tape:

https://twitter.com/maryamful/status/1021281597298020353

9) 65 PTI candidates have been endorsed by ASWJ to date.

https://twitter.com/SAMRIReports/status/1021144546598637569

Would you really want to vote for a party that garners support and mainstreams such elements?

10) PTI and Finance Minister hopeful, Asad Umar have joined hands with Fazlur Rehman Khalil who is on the US terror list. He was a signatory of Osama bin Laden's fatwa. We are already on the Grey List of FATF. The world is watching. Who are we fooling? tribune.com.pk/story/1760368/…

11) PTI #PS111 candidate, Imran Ismail was caught red-handed lying about his tax returns. Watch the video:

Read more about it here: geo.tv/latest/203851-…

12) PTI #NA247 candidate Dr. Arif Alvi once advocated on live TV about stopping co-education if Taliban demand it. Just to please extremists and TTP? Watch here: dailymotion.com/video/x112dnz (10 min onwards). How far would they go to succumb to their demands?

13) Unnecessarily hating on a persecuted community even after the disqualification of Nawaz to get the right-wing vote? Where are your principles?

https://twitter.com/NihariFan/status/1019593459450155008

14) 130+ people were killed that day, but Imran Khan was churning out conspiracy theories.

https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1017702880541855749

15) Imran Khan and PTI have given a party ticket to Aamir Liaquat. I don’t even need elaborate why this is such a conscience-devoid decision.

16) Watch Imran Khan defend the Taliban system of justice.

https://twitter.com/BakhtawarBZ/status/1018144990248259584

17) Imran Khan’s attendance in the National Assembly from 2013-2018. "PTI Chairman Imran Khan has cursed the same parliament which paid him almost Rs.3 million annual salary" thenews.com.pk/print/270178-i…

18) For those who say PTI and Imran Khan will never compromise on merit – “Imran Khan backs off statement that he will make Atif Mian his Finance Minister”. He has been named as one of 25 young economists in the world. rabwah.net/imran-khan-bac…

19) “Feminism degrades motherhood” – Imran Khan. Feminism actually celebrates motherhood. It is about fighting for better rights for mothers, including laws that protect working mothers, paid maternity leaves, day cares and equal pay.

https://twitter.com/bilalfqi/status/1008217048332275712

20) PTI leader Naeemul Haque slapped PML-N minister Daniyal Aziz on live TV. Watch here:

21) PTI #PS111 candidate Imran Ismail endorsed Naeemul Haque for slapping Daniyal Aziz on live TV. Is it Pakistan Thapar-e-Insaf?

https://twitter.com/ImranIsmailPTI/status/998986049601855489

22) PTI chief Imran Khan attended a conference where he blamed his opponents of being part of some conspiracy. Using this extremely sensitive matter for petty political interests. Is this what politics has come to?

https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/966612640142430208

23) Imran Khan was apparently pleased with protesters storming the headquarters of PTV Network in Islamabad in 2014. In a leaked telephonic conversation, Imran Khan told #NA247 candidate Dr. Arif Alvi that the government deserved the attack. Listen here: soundcloud.com/the-express-tr…

24) Lest you forget! In 2014, talking to journalists outside the Supreme Court, Imran Khan said that the "only demand of TTP is to disassociate Pakistan from the US’s war and this has also been the demand of PTI since the past 10 years". nation.com.pk/28-Mar-2014/ta…

25) Imran Khan sitting next to Hamid Raza, who led the violent mob to destroy the worship place of Ahmadis in Sialkot.

26) PTI and Imran Khan once again surrendered to extremists by asking Atif Mian, one of the Top 25 economists of the world to resign from the EAC. PTI mixed merit with religion and comprised on merit.

https://twitter.com/FaisalJavedKhan/status/1037910633017171969?s=19

27) Two PTI MNAs have tweeted their support for removal of celebrated economist, Atif Mian, purely on religious grounds. Religious beliefs continue to trump merit in Naya Pakistan.

28) PTI leader and Punjab Minister for Information and Culture, Fayaz Ul Hasan Chohan visited the grave of Mumtaz Qadri, who murdered Governor Salmaan Taseer. Does PTI condone vigilantism?

29) During Dharna days, Imran Khan asked people to send money through illegal channels. Here's a video of him asking people to break the law. The PTI government, now in power, wants people to send money through legal channels so they can run the country.