The misdeed of using shortcuts instead of arduous path of good governance to assume power
The writer is a public policy analyst based in Lahore. She can be reached at [email protected]
Imran Khan wants to talk to the establishment. What is the establishment in Pakistan’s political parlance? Is it the Pakistan army? But why does Imran want to talk to the army? Does he not believe in democracy? Does he not talk incessantly about the democratic process being allowed to run its course in Pakistan? Has he not, since time immemorial, been castigating the army’s intervention in politics? But then he is also blamed for being a product of the establishment. For that matter, every political party is considered a product of the establishment. Even PPP, which was built on a purely ideological ground, sought the establishment’s shadow for survival post-Benazir assassination.
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