This comedy skit / spoof on political talk show was performed at PTI Chicago membership drive. It starts off with headline news and few minutes later (3:40 mark), it jumps to a historical talk show where a member of Pakistani awaam sits alongside famous Pakistani politicians, Mr. Khurram Shareef and Ms. Samra Rabbani Khar. The talk show hosts tries his best to garner ratings for the program by encouraging fights between politicians while the Pakistani Awaam keeps you in splits by showing the true face of politicians and highlights the hope created by Imran Khan and PTI Tsunami. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- || Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf Chicago Chapter [ Official ] held a major Membership Drive Bunch in Holiday Inn, Skokie on 26th February, 2012 with over 450 attendees. Tons of Pakistani American's residing in Chicago land area became committed Members of PTI. Click on the link below to view full Press Release for the Event https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=360019110705538 ***** Event Timeline ***** - The program was initiated with Tilawat-ul-Quran by Mr. Zakariya Siyaji. - The MC of the evening was Mr. Haris Siddiqui, a young energetic PTI Supporter and active members of PTI's Social media team, who has worked tirelessly to make this event a reality. - Mr. Sohail Nazir, PTI Coordinator in Chicago spoke about the history of PTI and the change that Imran Khan and PTI promises to bring. - Mr. Rashid Latif, spoke about PTI Chicago's history and the importance of membership of Chicago Residents - Mehar Syed was the female speaker for the day, she emphasized the importance of Women's role in the PTI movement and encouraged the women present in the crowd to take a more active role in the Chicago Chapter of PTI. - 12 years old Ibrahim Khan represented the children of Chicago and he mesmerized the crowd by his forceful speech about Imran Khan and the movement of justice. - The entertainment for the evening was a Comedy Skit written by Jibran Ilyas in which he also acted as a Political Talk Show host who had PML-N leader (acted by Khurram Habib) and PPP Foreign Minister (acted by Samra Cheema) and Awaam (acted by Zeeshan Farooq) as his guests. The supporting roles were performed by Syed Musharaf, Ayesha Afridi and Ali Ghumman. They exposed the true picture of political talk shows where anchors encourage the politicians to fight in order to garner ratings for their program. - Livewires (Famous Pakistani Musical Band) performed Live on a super hit patriotic song "Nayi Umangein" - Ikhrar Bukhari, who shared personal anecdotes about the time he spent with Imran Khan for Shaukat Khanum Hospital tasks. He emphasized that Imran khan is a rare personality and his honesty and leadership is what Pakistan needs the most at this time. - Mr. Akhtar Ali gave special thanks to Mr. Mansoor Lakhani who donated the Banquet space and brunch for the event. He also thanked all the volunteers who worked tirelessly to put up the Membership drive event within two weeks. To conclude the event, Haris Siddiqui, the MC for the event, invited the volunteer team of PTI Chicago to commend them for all the hard work they had put in into making this a successful event and to sing the National Anthem. It was a fitting end to the event with all volunteers and 500 people singing the National Anthem together. The feedback from all corners of the audience was very positive. The PTI Chicago volunteers were very thankful to every person who came out to support and announced that they are looking forward to host Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Mr. Imran khan in Chicago in the near future. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all updates on the PTI Chicago chapter and to view event pictures, visit http://www.facebook.com/PTIChicago. SPECIAL THANKS, To All volunteers of the chapter (Ali Abbas Ghumman, Ayesha Afridi, Zee Qadri, Safina Khan, Faisal Afridi, Syed Musharaf Bokhari, Mehar Syed, Mujahid Ghazi, Sana Siddiqui, Haris Siddiqui, Aleem Tahir Malik, Rizwan Moin, Omer Zaidi, Omar Ansari, Bunty Khan, Mili Khan) We mention these names because they are the unsung heroes who are working tireless and it is thru the efforts of all the volunteers (Including the names we may have missed) of the chapter that we have gained succes on a local level and international recognition by Media and Chairman Imran Khan himself.

• published: 18 Apr 2012
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