His tweet appeared to trigger quite a response in the Pakistani blogosphere with many wondering why the PM was behaving like a ‘teenage Marxist’.
Pakistani Twitter has been particularly eventful since Imran Khan came to power and it was the same again on Sunday when the Pak Prime Minister tweeted a paragraph from one of Ayn Rand’s best-known works Atlas Shrugged.
Khan shared a para that read: “When you see trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion. When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.”
He further said this was very apt for the Pakistan ‘inherited by the PTI govt’.
His tweet appeared to trigger quite a response in the Pakistani blogosphere with many wondering why the PM was behaving like a ‘teenage Marxist’.
This is so apt for the Pakistan inherited by the PTI govt. pic.twitter.com/MHUJWkDUMQ
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) July 7, 2019
1. Twitter reacts to Imran Khan
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Imran Khan: *imposes taxes on everything humanly possible*
— Anaya Khan (@AnayaNKhan) July 7, 2019
Also Imran Khan: *quotes Ayn Rand out of context to confirm his dumb ideals about krrrupshun* https://t.co/Pmj9MKHbhR
Also Ayn Rand: The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men. https://t.co/d6bxMQsZDl
— Danyal Rasool (@Danny61000) July 7, 2019
Um, you do know who Ayn Rand was and what she believed in, right Mr. Prime Minister?
— Hifza Khan (@hifzakhann) July 7, 2019
Kids, this is why you just don't randomly quote things to look intellectual https://t.co/x7EIOLrYvN
Did our "Islamic Socialist" Prime Minister just positively quote AYN RAND?! https://t.co/pi2xXx6guG
— Kala Kawa (@kaalakawaa) July 7, 2019
What an embarrassment this guy is!
— Talha Mujahid (@TalhaMujahid) July 7, 2019
Posting stupid quotations like a teenage Marxist instead of fixing things. https://t.co/S08wg1jGG0
Same story applies on you when you rewarding corrupt politician like shida tali, parvez illahi, jhangeer treen, firdus baji, parvez khatak and the list goes on.. Being PM you need to speak truth rather than lies all time.. https://t.co/BMRVXIyvx3
— Inam Shah (@inamoov) July 7, 2019
IK should know that by the very threatening tax campaign, he has squeezed out a significant ammount out of my lifes savings, out of my personal old age fund of provident fund and gratuity of 30 years of international sevice. https://t.co/73QADQwYmd
— Javaid Ahmed (@JavaidAhmed1) July 7, 2019
When you see PM tweeting issue instead of solving it, when you see PM crying about system & not trying to change it, you know you are being ruled by local trump... https://t.co/Rj8WIAJCYN
— Saqib Ali Kazmi (@besaqib) July 7, 2019
And post PTI Pakistan is George Orwell's state https://t.co/QYluOFLO1c
— Haris Sheikh (@haris6) July 7, 2019
2. Imran Khan quotes Tagore
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Imran Khan has shown a tendency to post quotes in the past.
Earlier, Imran Khan took to Twitter to write: "I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy." He also captioned the quote saying: “Those who discover and get to understand the wisdom of Gibran's words, cited below, get to live a life of contentment." Sadly, the quote doesn’t belong to Lebanese writer Khalil Gibran but is actually Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s.
Of course, Khan’s ignorance of history and geography is well-known but even then, one would expect the Pak PM to recognise the words of a poet whose compositions were chosen as national anthems of two nations in the sub-continent – India and Bangladesh – the latter carved out of Pakistan in 1971.
Even the Sri Lankan national anthem is inspired by Tagore.
The original quote is: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
3. Imran Khan or Sachin?
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Imran Khan’s close aide Naeemul Haque – who is Special Assistant to the Pak PM on Political Affairs and co-founder of his party PTI, shared a picture captioned: “PM Imran Khan 1969.”
PM Imran Khan 1969 pic.twitter.com/uiivAOfszs
— Naeem ul Haque (@naeemul_haque) June 21, 2019
