Pakistan has been featuring its existence on the brink of becoming a dystopian state. Since IK’s ouster as the former prime minister of Pakistan, resulting from no-confidence motion, every success formula the government has tried to cement its place since then, in this phase of game of thrones has fluffed. Thus, the government is unable to tinker how to forestall the avalanche of destruction, this country has been chasing its way towards. But still, the government is too predilected to make mistakes without meditating the history of this country to make a better way for themselves.
Another rise to this country’s prevailing quandaries made its way with the arrest of Imran Khan at Islamabad High Court, on Tuesday. According to reports, IK’s arrest has been allegedly instructed by NAB, in a corruption of Al-Qadir Trust Case, which should be probed with transparency. Accountability of politicians has been an ambit of supremacy of law and order, and should be so, as clemency shouldn’t be rewarded to corruption. The only foible in the supremacy of law and order is the extravagant use of power, which has been the manifesto of our history. Every government has wreaked vengeance nailing its opposition to destroy them, the patterns of which could be interpreted even now.
“Our political leaders consider being politically engineered by the military establishment as laud, but they have buried their heads in the sand that they have to taste the venom of their own watered plant someday.”
Another controversy followed by IK’s arrest is disguised in his statements against the military establishment, which ostensibly seems to be the more popular and plausible assertion regarding his arrest. The aspersions casted by Imran Khan on military establishment and its generals hasn’t been a new spotlight in the box office and the threat was supposed to be dealt with. But the government has been continuously rendering his support to military establishment, paying the cost which has been granted them for doing so. Though, the government has been putting his efforts to weed Imran Khan out for them to be the establishment’s blue eye, but what they aren’t heeding is the character of game of thrones could be changed in Pakistan at no time. Our political leaders consider being politically engineered by the military establishment as laud, but they have buried their heads in the sand that they have to taste the venom of their own watered plant someday.
Imran Khan’s recent tenure has been the exclusive epitome of this story. Served the establishment as long as he could as per their wishes, but when he started creeping out of his nutshell, he was dethroned before he could save his office. Not only IK, even Nawaz Sharif has tasted this ordeal not once, but many times and yet PMLN is to ameliorate their mistakes. A weak, oblivious government acting as a lapdog of military establishment would end up falling in the same grave, they have dug for others, causing them their thrones, their political futures and everything.
Imran Khan’s arrest surges the incidents in the history of this country, where the prime ministers of Pakistan, present or former have been abducted to jail. There’s no blinking the fact that supremacy of law and order should never be compromised, but what’s more paramount is it shouldn’t fall under political victimization and necessarily under establishment’s ultra vires. Civilian supremacy is the bedrock of democratic values which must be practiced to bolster democracy. For a government to mark his legacy in this country, it better needs to act as a watchdog, rather than being a lapdog. Hence, Pakistan needs our politicians to get out of their cynicism to torch a passage of light to implement what constitution has to offer and that would require our political leaders more to be on the same page before, and then they have to shake hands with the establishment.
Great analysis