They’re mentally stupid or are paid to paddle this shit. Idk which one it is. It’s shocking if they’re doing it for free became not a single with a normal iq doesn’t know how messed up Pakistan is in precisely because of the bastards running GHQ. Like you, I had so much respect for the Army and want them to kick foreign *** but they have disappointed me to no end.
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Its opinion section written by an indian so cant worth more than a shit ...
Opinion | Imran Khan Fights the Army for Control of Nuclear-Armed Pakistan
The popular former prime minister goes head to head with the powerful military chief.www.wsj.com
Anyone can have his opinion but on hard facts they dont have any tangible facts against imran khan
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One of the world’s most consequential political dramas is playing out largely unnoticed in America. The stability of Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 230 million, rests on a duel between the country’s most popular politician and the head of its most powerful institution. Can army chief Gen. Asim Munir stop former Prime Minister Imran Khan from reclaiming power?
Mr. Khan is beloved in Pakistan. He led a recent Gallup Pakistan poll with 61% approval, 25 points ahead of his two closest rivals. Yet his recklessness, impractical ideas and poor administrative skills risk unraveling a nation reeling from floods, terrorism and looming bankruptcy.
The 70-year-old former prime minister’s determination to stage a comeback a year after Parliament ejected him from office poses a dilemma for Washington, too. Mr. Khan’s authoritarian streak, sympathy for radical Islam, and hostility toward America place him in the mold of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A second Khan government would likely make the country’s domestic problems worse and erode its relations with the U.S.
Mr. Khan has a real shot at a comeback. He has genuine political strengths, including a reputation for probity, an ability to rouse both the masses and the middle class, and a tenacity that transformed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, from a one-man band to the country’s leading political party.
At the heart of Mr. Khan’s populist appeal lies a reputation for leadership earned on the cricket field. For over two decades, Mr. Khan occupied a position at the pinnacle of the sport. In 1992 he led a ragtag underdog team to Pakistan’s greatest sporting achievement—a World Cup victory in Australia. As Mr. Khan’s supporters see it, the charismatic leadership skills that transformed the national cricket team could also transform the nation.
Mr. Khan also offers a story of religious redemption. As a young playboy, he frequented London nightclubs and posed for photos in a bathrobe in a bachelor pad bedecked with tiger posters. His critics see his pious turn—and frequent criticism of Western culture—as hypocrisy. But in a deeply religious nation, the public transformation plays well. As his fans see it, Mr. Khan—educated at Oxford and once married to the British heiress Jemima Goldsmith—could easily have lived a life of comfort in the West. Instead, he chose the squalor of Pakistan, where he built a first-rate cancer hospital in memory of his mother and launched the PTI in 1996 to fight corruption in public life.
“Imagine if Michael Jordan was also America’s most famous philanthropist, and became president after founding a new party,” says Taimur Malik, a lawyer for PTI, in a phone interview from Lahore. “That’s how Pakistanis feel about Imran Khan.”
Mr. Khan’s party finished second in 2013 elections by vote share and eventually won in 2018 with an assist from the army, which reportedly hounded Mr. Khan’s opponents and helped him cobble together a coalition. But three years into his term Mr. Khan fell out with Gen. Qamar Bajwa, then army chief, over the appointment of a new general to head the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence, which has long meddled in domestic politics. A few months later, Mr. Khan’s government collapsed in a vote of no confidence.
The army has ruled Pakistan directly for almost half of the nation’s 75 years of existence and indirectly for most of the rest. Usually a politician who falls out of favor ends up dead or in exile. Mr. Khan claims—without evidence—that top generals and ruling party leaders were behind a failed November assassination attempt. The army and the accused politicians deny this charge, but instead of fading away, Mr. Khan has taken the battle to the new army chief, Gen. Munir.
In January, Mr. Khan ordered his party’s provincial governments in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to resign, apparently in a bid to force an early national election. Mr. Khan has castigated the army chief in interviews with foreign journalists, and his supporters have flooded social media with attacks on the army. In about a year, Pakistan has gone from being a country where even the most senior journalists chose their words about the military carefully to one where PTI supporters openly cast aspersions on a serving army chief.
Mr. Khan’s popularity has helped him rewrite the rules of Pakistani politics, and unlike previous leaders cast out by the army, he appears to enjoy support among serving and retired officers. In addition, the courts have shielded Mr. Khan by preventing the government from arresting him on a battery of charges, ranging from corruption to terrorism. He denies all the accusations against him.
But Mr. Khan’s brinkmanship reinforces the argument that he’s too reckless to be trusted again with power. With an election likely by October, for the army chief the dilemma couldn’t be starker. “As an old Pakistani saying goes, there’s only one grave but two candidates,” says Uzair Younus, an Atlantic Council Pakistan expert in a phone interview. “Imran Khan has ensured that it will either be him or Munir who rules Pakistan.”
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One of the world’s most consequential political dramas is playing out largely unnoticed in America. The stability of Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 230 million, rests on a duel between the country’s most popular politician and the head of its most powerful institution. Can army chief Gen. Asim Munir stop former Prime Minister Imran Khan from reclaiming power?
Mr. Khan is beloved in Pakistan. He led a recent Gallup Pakistan poll with 61% approval, 25 points ahead of his two closest rivals. Yet his recklessness, impractical ideas and poor administrative skills risk unraveling a nation reeling from floods, terrorism and looming bankruptcy.
The 70-year-old former prime minister’s determination to stage a comeback a year after Parliament ejected him from office poses a dilemma for Washington, too. Mr. Khan’s authoritarian streak, sympathy for radical Islam, and hostility toward America place him in the mold of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A second Khan government would likely make the country’s domestic problems worse and erode its relations with the U.S.
Mr. Khan has a real shot at a comeback. He has genuine political strengths, including a reputation for probity, an ability to rouse both the masses and the middle class, and a tenacity that transformed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, from a one-man band to the country’s leading political party.
At the heart of Mr. Khan’s populist appeal lies a reputation for leadership earned on the cricket field. For over two decades, Mr. Khan occupied a position at the pinnacle of the sport. In 1992 he led a ragtag underdog team to Pakistan’s greatest sporting achievement—a World Cup victory in Australia. As Mr. Khan’s supporters see it, the charismatic leadership skills that transformed the national cricket team could also transform the nation.
Mr. Khan also offers a story of religious redemption. As a young playboy, he frequented London nightclubs and posed for photos in a bathrobe in a bachelor pad bedecked with tiger posters. His critics see his pious turn—and frequent criticism of Western culture—as hypocrisy. But in a deeply religious nation, the public transformation plays well. As his fans see it, Mr. Khan—educated at Oxford and once married to the British heiress Jemima Goldsmith—could easily have lived a life of comfort in the West. Instead, he chose the squalor of Pakistan, where he built a first-rate cancer hospital in memory of his mother and launched the PTI in 1996 to fight corruption in public life.
“Imagine if Michael Jordan was also America’s most famous philanthropist, and became president after founding a new party,” says Taimur Malik, a lawyer for PTI, in a phone interview from Lahore. “That’s how Pakistanis feel about Imran Khan.”
Mr. Khan’s party finished second in 2013 elections by vote share and eventually won in 2018 with an assist from the army, which reportedly hounded Mr. Khan’s opponents and helped him cobble together a coalition. But three years into his term Mr. Khan fell out with Gen. Qamar Bajwa, then army chief, over the appointment of a new general to head the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence, which has long meddled in domestic politics. A few months later, Mr. Khan’s government collapsed in a vote of no confidence.
The army has ruled Pakistan directly for almost half of the nation’s 75 years of existence and indirectly for most of the rest. Usually a politician who falls out of favor ends up dead or in exile. Mr. Khan claims—without evidence—that top generals and ruling party leaders were behind a failed November assassination attempt. The army and the accused politicians deny this charge, but instead of fading away, Mr. Khan has taken the battle to the new army chief, Gen. Munir.
In January, Mr. Khan ordered his party’s provincial governments in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to resign, apparently in a bid to force an early national election. Mr. Khan has castigated the army chief in interviews with foreign journalists, and his supporters have flooded social media with attacks on the army. In about a year, Pakistan has gone from being a country where even the most senior journalists chose their words about the military carefully to one where PTI supporters openly cast aspersions on a serving army chief.
Mr. Khan’s popularity has helped him rewrite the rules of Pakistani politics, and unlike previous leaders cast out by the army, he appears to enjoy support among serving and retired officers. In addition, the courts have shielded Mr. Khan by preventing the government from arresting him on a battery of charges, ranging from corruption to terrorism. He denies all the accusations against him.
But Mr. Khan’s brinkmanship reinforces the argument that he’s too reckless to be trusted again with power. With an election likely by October, for the army chief the dilemma couldn’t be starker. “As an old Pakistani saying goes, there’s only one grave but two candidates,” says Uzair Younus, an Atlantic Council Pakistan expert in a phone interview. “Imran Khan has ensured that it will either be him or Munir who rules Pakistan.”
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I’m in wudu waiting for Isha prayers so won’t write anything that can break it. Thank you for sharing. Will comment later.
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1. Authoritarianism means nothing anymore. It's just a cute buzz word the Americans use to try and vilify countries who don't toe the American western rhetoric.
The following are examples of states which are currently or frequently characterized as authoritarian and/or democratically backsliding. Some countries listed may also be currently listed as a "Hybrid regime" or "flawed democracy" by The Economist's Democracy Index, or partly free by Freedom House's Freedom in the World index.
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Funny how more than half of them are allied to the west, including India which made the list.
2. Radical Islam? Imran Khan is a centrist at best. Again just cute buzzwords to try and vilify him. The yanks had no problems supporting radical Islam against the Soviets in Afghanistan and against Bashar al Assad in Syria and Gaddafi in Libya. Point is moot.
3. F**k America. Good.
Where's the issue for us?
Notice how he mentions the army helped Imran Khan when he won, but when he fell out of favour, nothing is mentioned about illegal arrests, defiance of the constitution and most importantly not a single mention of the Pakistan Dalla Movement. As if they naturally arose out of thin air. The army invented PDM.
The courts are shielding him under the rule of law and constitution. They've done nothing wrong. Once again trying to skew reality.
Yet another example of Faujeets and Pajeets on the same page, indeed the colonial sepoys now have a new local master, the hindutva next door.
Although this may have put a huge smile on the faces of the ethnonationalist nativists, peddling the martial race credentials of the khokars and other sons of the soil bull$hit in every other thread...now faujeets, pajeets, and wannabe ranjeets are all on the same page.
Although this may have put a huge smile on the faces of the ethnonationalist nativists, peddling the martial race credentials of the khokars and other sons of the soil bull$hit in every other thread...now faujeets, pajeets, and wannabe ranjeets are all on the same page.
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If only Rana Sana-Ullah could write an article, it would not have been much different than this.
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Correction please.
Imran Khan Fights the Army for Control of Nuclear-Armed Pakistan
The popular former prime minister goes head to head with the powerful military chief.
Opinion | Imran Khan Fights the Army for Control of Nuclear-Armed Pakistan
The popular former prime minister goes head to head with the powerful military chief.
www.wsj.com
Many of them reside in the UK and have a weird form of belief where they combine ethno supremacy mixed with lite Christian beliefs.
They call for bombing of Pasthuns which I called out each time. They become lions when it comes to a hapless country such as Afghanistan but go limped when it’s India or Goras. Fu*k Ranjeet Singh and every ethno f**k here!
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I know exactly what you mean and the types of people you're referring to. I would call them borderline ethnofascists to be honest.
Funny thing is these bums can barely read or write Shahmukhi Punjabi script. They talk about being proud Punjabis in English.
Lmfao. Although I 100% support provincial languages and cultures being taught and protected in each province.
But this fake bravado I don't get.
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its an opinion piece by a literal smelly pajeet - high key disgusting slash traitorous for you to be using a randian propaganda piece to hit your political opponent
Opinion | Imran Khan Fights the Army for Control of Nuclear-Armed Pakistan
The popular former prime minister goes head to head with the powerful military chief.
I do not want to insult you as after a while I realized you are an older man and as a man its dishonorable for me to insult an old man - but with your low effort propaganda posts, you sure try your best
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I’m a Punjabi who can’t read Urdu or Punjabi scripts. I love my people, but I truly hate the ones that are ethno/cultural supremo. Few of them here.
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