The popularity of Imran Khan has been increasing at great speed recently and turncoats of different sorts are joining the PTI for what they say “to save the country” from corruption, maladministration, politics of inheritance and free the people from American hegemony and feudal system.
Everybody is surprised that where there had been only Imran Khan’s towering personality for 15 years, why all of a sudden he has become so popular. His programmes are already scheduled. As he demonstrated his political potency in Lahore, his trip was arranged for China because China is more than a friend for Pakistan and her approval maybe was necessary for this. Moreover, media remained unaware of Mr Khan’s activities in China.
After Nawaz Sharif’s tour to Turkey, it was also considered indispensable to make arrangements for Imran Khan’s tour. He went there and came back with pompous attitude. Now, he has done his best in Karachi and it is possible that he may go to London or even United States?
Think for a while: why former foreign ministers – Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri – who were never close to Mr Khan have joined his hands for changing the destiny of poverty-stricken people of this pure-land? They had always sided with the new entrants and it doesn’t matter to them whether they had been blue-eyed boys of dictators or have helped democracy, their purpose is to remain in power.
Is it so hard to imagine as to why the demoralised mullah-military elite of this country have now decided to run their propped-up horses on the grounds of PTI? Of course, not. But why Imran Khan has been chosen for this task, it baffles me.
Since the coup of ’99, Nawaz Sharif has not been able to forget turbulent past. And now the establishment does not seem to have overcome the reservations that Nawaz Sharif has against it. A new player in the form of Imran Khan was already available in the market, so it was used for its vested interests.
A dirty political game seem to have started well before the coming general election, and mullah-military nexus seems to have found a way to hit where it matters the most; by manipulating peoples’ desires and aspirations.
All the patriots of the country should keep in mind that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
SARWECH SARYO
Rato Dero