Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

The Pakistan Tehreek -e- Insaf (PTI ) ( German Pakistan Movement for Justice, English Pakistan Movement for Justice; Urdu پاکستان تحريک انصاف ) is a centrist, progressive political party in Pakistan, Imran Khan, a philanthropist and former cricket player, was founded. He was at the Cricket World Cup 1992, the only previous World Cup, which Pakistan could win the captain of the team. It is considered the fastest growing political party in Pakistan, which is mainly due to the dissatisfaction of large parts of the population with the previously established parties like the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League.

History

Pakistan Tehreek -e- Insaf was founded on April 25, 1996 by Imran Khan in Lahore. Founded as a socio-political movement that PTI initially grew very slowly and was not exceptionally popular. The political landscape of Pakistan in the 1990s was very unstable and split. The two largest parties, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) ( PML (N)), were selected alternately to power. But you had to their respective legislatures on corruption charges and a lack of political success always end prematurely, which led to early elections. The rivalry between the two parties led to major conflicts, what to Khan moved to set up with the PTI, a new, unencumbered party, represented in his opinion, the real hopes and aspirations of the Pakistani people. In 1999, the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (PML -N) was removed in a bloodless military coup led by General Pervez Musharraf of his office. Khan supported General Musharraf in the hope that he could one the divided nation and end the stalemate, which arose because of disputes between the two major parties. Later, however, he should be one of the most vocal critics of Musharraf.

In October 2002, Imran Khan came in the constituency his hometown Mianwali for election to the national parliament and became a deputy to the National Assembly (Member of Parliament, shortly MP). PTI supported the referendum by General Musharraf in 2002, which allowed him to stay for another five years as president of Pakistan. During the reign of Musharraf PTI supported his policy largely because it led to relatively strong economic growth, liberalization of the media and a general increase in prosperity and development. Khan himself but looked at the whole of the country political system is very critical because he did not think it corrupt, inefficient and morally with the Gründungsprizipien Pakistan compatible. Therefore, he initiated a grassroots movement to increase awareness of his party and their concerns.

PTI is of the opinion that Pakistan could never really develop, because the governments of the past were incapable and incompetent. The Party attaches great importance to the founding principles of Pakistan, one of which has their opinion, far from the land. As a relatively young political party, the PTI strives for a modern, democratic Islamic Republic, which offers its citizens full political, religious and economic freedom. The entire basis of his policy provides PTI Chairman Imran Khan in Muhammad Ali Jinnah's vision of a harmonious and peaceful state. Therefore, he often criticized the exploitation of the weak and corruption in the country.

The recent rapid increase in popularity of the PTI is mainly justified by the status quo of discontent. Since the founding of the state to military dictators and democratically elected but corrupt governments have alternated. The latter consisted mostly of members of a few families from the elite. PTI here trying to act as a counterweight to the two major parties.

The PML -N has in the urban regions of Punjab traditionally their strongest support, however, the PPP in Sindh. PTI sees itself as the representative of all Pakistanis, regardless of religious, ethnic, linguistic and geographical background. At the beginning of the Musharraf era, PTI still showed cautious optimism, but when President Musharraf imposed martial law and increasingly occurred against democratic movements, PTI withdrew their support and criticized his policies. After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif in 2007, returning from exile in Saudi Arabia, public pressure grew on Musharraf to hold democratic elections. PTI and several other parties founded the All Parties Democratic Movement, whose goal was to end the military rule. The elections in 2008 were boycotted by the PTI and were won by the PPP. Then Asif Ali Zardari was elected president.

Since the takeover of power by the unpopular Zardari 's popularity Khan and the PTI has greatly increased due to the increase of corruption, inflation, terrorism and extremism. It is precisely these issues has repeatedly addressed in the past the party. The PTI wants Pakistan rid of the debt burden and the associated problems and hopes for a high share of the vote in the elections of 2013, in his book Pakistan:. A Personal History, writes PTI Chairman Imran Khan, that a selfish and corrupt elite of politicians, feudal lords and military bureaucrats Pakistan have destroyed.

Nearly a year after its foundation joined the PTI in 1997 for the first time in national elections to. They could but in the seven constituencies in which they took, not win a seat in parliament. In the 2002 elections the party got 0.8 % of votes. Since the share of votes in Imran Khan's home constituency of Mianwali but was very high, he was able to move as one of the 272 deputies in parliament.

The 2008 elections were boycotted by PTI as well numerous obvious manipulations in favor of the PPP took place. Due to the popular discontent with the current government PTI reported a strong influx of supporters. According to surveys, Imran Khan has emerged as Pakistan 's most popular politician, the trust many Pakistanis to inspire real change. Due to massive PR campaigns and mass demonstrations in several Pakistani cities ( Jalsas ) hopes the PTI to gain enough support for a victory in the next elections in 2013. This Jalsas were attended by up to 250,000 people.

Campaign to recruit members

To move people to greater political participation and to familiarize them with the objectives of PTI, Imran Khan launched a campaign to recruit new party members, which very successfully runs, especially in the big cities.

Financially, the party is supported mainly by wealthy donors who live in Europe and North America.

Jalsa

PTI calls her large-scale demonstrations in various cities of Pakistan Jalsas or tsunamis ( tide against corruption). The first Jalsa was on 30 October 2011 in Lahore and was attended by an estimated 75000-100000 people. As a direct result of the success of the Lahore Jalsa prominent politicians who formerly belonged to other parties, such as Javed Hashmi and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, as well as a significant number of other Pakistanis PTI joined. On 25 December 2011, the biggest Jalsa was held in Karachi. More than 250,000 people have been counted there.

Significant members

The following individuals are members of the PTI:

• Asad Umar
• Javed Hashmi
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi
• Abrar -ul- Haq
• Ejaz Chaudhry
• Shireen Mazari
• Asghar Khan
• Meraj Muhammad Khan
• Masood Sharif
• Samson Simon Sharaf
• Mian Muhammad Azhar
• Jehangir Khan Tareen