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INTRA PARTY DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN TEHRIK E INSAF

06 Pages : 75-84

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2016(I-I).06      10.31703/grr.2016(I-I).06      Published : Dec 2016

Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf

    With the idea of ‘change’ in exiting social system of Pakistan mainly by eradicating corruption, Pakistani Tehrik-e-Insaf emerged in 1996, under the leadership of renowned cricket player Imran Khan. He pledged to promote justice and the establishment of a welfare state. However, the party could hardly attain electoral success until 2012 when it reached on national political peaks. Majority of the Pakistani youth from urban areas follow the party agenda with a new zenith. Unlike other political parties, PTI pledged to challenge the existing transmissible-monarchy and decided to holds the intra party election. By using different primary and secondary sources, this article tries to focus on PTI’s intra party elections in order to denounce the existing socio-political culture of Pakistan, yet it could hardly achieve the said goals in the presence of “old-guard” in the front lines of party leadership.

    PTI, Political culture, Democracy, Intra party Elections
    (1) Muhammad Rizwan
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pakistan Studies, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Havelian, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Manzoor Ahmad
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Bilal
    Assistant Registrar, Women University, Swabi, KP, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Rizwan, Muhammad, Manzoor Ahmad, and Muhammad Bilal. 2016. "Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf." Global Regional Review, I (I): 75-84 doi: 10.31703/grr.2016(I-I).06
    HARVARD : RIZWAN, M., AHMAD, M. & BILAL, M. 2016. Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf. Global Regional Review, I, 75-84.
    MHRA : Rizwan, Muhammad, Manzoor Ahmad, and Muhammad Bilal. 2016. "Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf." Global Regional Review, I: 75-84
    MLA : Rizwan, Muhammad, Manzoor Ahmad, and Muhammad Bilal. "Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf." Global Regional Review, I.I (2016): 75-84 Print.
    OXFORD : Rizwan, Muhammad, Ahmad, Manzoor, and Bilal, Muhammad (2016), "Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf", Global Regional Review, I (I), 75-84
    TURABIAN : Rizwan, Muhammad, Manzoor Ahmad, and Muhammad Bilal. "Intra-Party Democracy in Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf." Global Regional Review I, no. I (2016): 75-84. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2016(I-I).06