" 70 Feesad Siyasat Party Ke Andar Hoti. .. " Shafqat Mahmood Ne Siyasat Kyun Choari ?
" 70 Feesad Siyasat Party Ke Andar Hoti. .. " Shafqat Mahmood Ne Siyasat Kyun Choari ?
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00:00Oh sir, where did you leave the party and go? The world is coming back.
00:03The lines have been set up, Mr. Tariq Khan has said to come back, Mr. Shafqat has tweeted that I am leaving.
00:08Is everything okay?
00:12Kashif, my first government job was in 1971.
00:19And after that, it's been 53 years.
00:24Sir, politics says that a politician never retires.
00:27You know that a politician never retires.
00:29I think that a politician should also retire.
00:34And should make a place for new people.
00:37Sir, this place should be made.
00:38It's been 53 years, I am a Nawaz Sharif.
00:40It should be made, but you had the opportunity to do all this a year ago.
00:43You could have done it earlier.
00:44You could have said that I am resigning on 9th May.
00:46Thank you very much, I wish the politicians well.
00:48You didn't do it at that time.
00:49No, no, no.
00:50At that time, you had two tweets.
00:51No, no, no.
00:52You arrested Imran Khan and arrested others.
00:54Now you are leaving the party.
00:56You are leaving politics.
00:58Look, I never did a press conference.
01:03I never announced that I am leaving the party.
01:07In that period, many people announced it.
01:11Many people did press conferences.
01:13I didn't do it.
01:14But now I seriously think that I want to write something.
01:19Sir, you write.
01:21I have been in politics for 34 years.
01:22Okay, we will take advantage of it.
01:24But tell me, which press conference surprised you the most?
01:27That he resigned when those press conferences were taking place.
01:33I think what happened in the beginning surprised me a lot.
01:37Because Imran Ismail and Ali Zaidi were close friends of Khan.
01:42But what can I say?
01:44Everyone has their own circumstances.
01:46I have no idea what happened to them.
01:49I have no idea what happened to Fawad Chaudhary.
01:53I heard his interview the next day.
01:55But obviously, there were no easy circumstances.
01:59If you go back to April 2022,
02:04the party was in a completely different state.
02:07And now you see, the party is in a completely different state.
02:10But the reason is that many people either became inactive or left.
02:14What was the leadership?
02:15Asad Umar was leading.
02:16Shah Mehmood is inside.
02:18Hamad Azhar is the president of Punjab.
02:20Before that, you were the president of Punjab.
02:22Hamad Azhar was recently made the president of Punjab.
02:24The core of the party was Punjab.
02:28The people who were considered big leaders,
02:31they all left.
02:33That's when the reality changed.
02:35I didn't leave.
02:37I didn't leave.
02:39But what happened to you?
02:41I was reading about you.
02:43There was a lot of criticism.
02:45You must remember when Long March came.
02:47You were the president of Punjab.
02:49You were elected in May 2022.
02:51What happened after that?
02:53After that, you became more inactive in the party.
02:55No, no.
02:57The criticism was mostly from within the party.
03:00Let me tell you,
03:02what I have learned in 34 years of politics,
03:0470% of politics is within the party.
03:0630% is outside.
03:08Because of the internal politics,
03:10I got an impression.
03:12After that,
03:14I fell ill.
03:16I had a major surgery.
03:18After that,
03:20I had some heart issues.
03:22My health was not so good
03:24that I was very active.
03:26I told Mr. Khan
03:28to leave Punjab.
03:30If Mr. Khan tells you
03:32to come back tomorrow,
03:34will you come back?
03:36No, no.
03:38I have decided.
03:40I have a lot of respect for Mr. Khan.
03:42But I have decided.
03:44I have said this about your ticket
03:46to Punjab.
03:48Mr. Salman Akhund Raja
03:50was already announced
03:52that he will lose his ticket.
03:54I am sure you had
03:56submitted your nomination.
03:58But at that time,
04:00you must have been communicated
04:02that Mr. Khan will be very unhappy
04:04and angry about something.
04:06This must have been the reason.
04:08Actually, I was not communicated.
04:10And
04:12I myself found out.
04:15I was informed that
04:17Wakala Party is giving you a ticket.
04:19Although,
04:21in 2013,
04:23I was the only person
04:25who won the PTI from Lahore.
04:27And in 2018, I won again.
04:29I did a very good job.
04:31Anyway, this is the decision of the party.
04:33I don't want to go into it.
04:35I don't want to talk about my past.
04:37If I had a past,
04:39I would have stood in the elections.
04:41I would have said that I want to stand
04:43in the elections.
04:45But the party did not give me a ticket.
04:47I will tell you one thing.
04:49Yes, finish it.
04:51I will tell you that
04:53for a long time,
04:55I was seriously thinking
04:57that after retirement,
04:59I will do some media,
05:01writing, autobiography,
05:03or some other work.
05:05You are already thinking about retiring.