OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE – IMRAN KHAN! ARE YOU WILLING TO SIP IT, AGAIN?
Hassan Saleem Aawan
December 11, 2022
Today I had an important meeting with Imran Khan
and conveyed a message to him. ان شاء اللہ, there will be good
news very soon and stability will come in Pakistan – tweeted ljaz UI Haq (President
– PML Z) at 12:12 AM on December 11, 2022.
https://twitter.com/ljazUIHaq/status/1601656025652031488?t=XMzx8mrrLPC9bu85dMrbQw&s=08
Imran Khan! Ordinary citizens don’t understand and are least concerned with the politics behind the curtains. You are asking for help from the very same people who first brought you to power corridors, made you dance to their tunes like a puppet. They, then, booted and drummed you out when they no longer needed you. As you continue doing so (seeking help from them), you aren’t just killing your own hopes but the hopes of millions of your supporters as well. Remember, this isn’t about you and your supporters hopes and ambitions, Pakistan is suffering from an irreparable loss. If we look at your contemporary politics so far, you could not defend your throne. Gaining power is politics, keeping a strong grip over it, is the essence of politics. After your ouster from the power, all the political demands you have made, not even a single one of them has been accepted such as;
- · Establishment of Judicial Commission on Diplomatic Cipher
- · Fixation of date for G.E.
- · Usage of EVMs in G.E.
- · Voting rights of overseas Pakistanis
- · Resignation of Chief Election Commissioner
The state and those running its affairs are constantly giving you lollipops that you keep sucking on happily. But at the same time, the list of your political blunders and grave U-turns is getting longer.
- · Resignation from the National Assembly
- · Inability to explicitly explaining the term حقیقی آزادی (True Independence)
- · Two pointless long marches
- · Your fickle on the American conspiracy narrative
- · Deciding to dissolve the provincial assemblies and then fickle again
Imran Khan! Your people have paid a heavy price for supporting you and your political ideology and are still paying. Their professional careers were terminated, post-retirement perks and incentives were put on hold; their businesses were closed along with mental, physical and economic oppression. May 25th, 2022 cannot be forgotten when, on your call to support your cause, people came out and sustained worst kinds brutality, gross violations of human rights and oppression tactics by the state. However, your ordinary supporters got scared when they found out that you are helpless in defending your people even those are very close to you (Dr. Shirin Mazari, Dr. Shahbaz Gill, Imran Riaz Khan and Azam Swati etc.). Party’s legal and moral support for the workers those who needed it, was insignificant and inconsequential. People like Arshad Sharif have paid the price of supporting you and your ideology by giving their lives.
You are swinging behind the same forces, responsible
for destroying your 22 years of struggle in 2018. It would have been better to
wait a year or two more, not coveting power, than this disgrace you got by
accepting their offer and joining hands with them. Mind it! The state is
depleting your resources, energy and time by entangling you in distractions as
it has thousands ways of doing so. What has happened in Punjab and what is going
to happen, endorse my statement. It is solely your choice, either you prefer a
backdoor to power corridors by being in cahoots with non-democratic forces or you
prefer trusting the massive support from the people that you enjoy at the
moment and take a democratic way. If you choose the first, you are no different
than your peers and the wise thing to do, would be to engage with political
opponents. And if you choose the second, it is highly likely that your opponents
will try to make an ‘Asghar Khan’ out of you but history will always remember
you. Given the prevailing circumstances, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see you
getting success. Time has brought you at crossroad, again, where you are
supposed to make a trade-off. However, time is slipping out of your hands
quickly. Remember, fortune favors the brave but luck is the residue of design.
Imran Khan! I ask myself and you ... will we, the
people of Pakistan, always be forced to sip old wine from a new bottle? Only
the hands serving it get rotated – sometimes from PPP, sometimes from PMLN and
sometimes from PTI.
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