12月初，他来到拉合尔，十天后，他在该市独立纪念塔广场的大型公众集会上发表了演讲。 一年前，板球运动员出身的政客的伊姆兰·汗（Imran Khan）在这里掀起了一场他称之为（尽管有些用词不当）政治海啸的风波。
Ten days later, he addressed a mammoth public meeting at the city’s Minar-e-Pakistan grounds, where, a year earlier, the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan had launched what he not very appropriately termed a political tsunami.