Correct.
And the 'party' was a one-man show anyway.
Expats and fanbois just don't understand how electioneering works in Pakistan: The leaders and the electables spend money, hold a lot of political gatherings and much more to 'mobilize' people to vote for them. It is big business and politicians don't part with their money easily. And hence the nastiness and violence, especially in Punjab. Biradery system, clan loyalties, threats, family ties, inducements.... a lot has to happen before a candidate wins. Cheating and rigging can only help so much in Pakistan otherwise Imran wouldn't have lost the byelections leading up to April 2022 and wouldn't have won the byelections after April 2022.
The PTI fanbois' idea that Imran Khan is some Salahuddin or Superman marching up and down from Karachi to Khyber on a horse to win the elections is laughable. Even his personal popularity will decline as the propaganda builds up and people realize that Imran Khan is history for at least next few years.
But imagine if the Pakistani population were educated, had morals, values, ethics, were honest, followed an political ideology, had knowledge about politics, economy, how to stop corruption, how to select better representatives. Only then a real change would come, noone would be able to stop the strong 250M population. The armed forces, lawyers, judiciary, police, rangers, politicians, political workers are all from the people. In Turkey Erdogan was about to be finished but the people of Turkey came on the streets, if things went out of control then more people would have came. Turkey changed because the people changed.
Deep down i still have hope whatever IK has been saying for the last decade, the people of Pakistan have woken up for a change. But looking at the facts it all looks the same as before, I did notice alot of youth are following IK but their morals, values, ethnics is still the old one. IK is 100% correct when it comes to corruption, making institutes strong and independent, accountability etc.
Alot of people on PDF including yourself are only pointing out the mistakes IK and PTI made, I believe its a good thing, IK and Pti should learn and try to calm everything down, encourage all workers to be released from jails, human right abuses stopped, false cases finished, then slowly make a come back but without the lotas, bring in the young educated loyal people, make Pti ideology strong. If the people of Pakistan are ready then they will vote for new representatives rather than the electables, baradari people, tycoons etc.
Pti need to shake out traitors.
Cowards and gandoos exposed
Luckily all electables, tycoons are leaving, so realisticly if 80% of the population still wants a change, better policies, governance, independent Institutes, accountability, major reforms then they should still vote PTI. In AJK we just had elections yesterday, PPP candidate won, Pmln 2nd and Pti gained just 1000 votes. This was the seat of ex PTI Ajk PM Illyas Tanvir. A big mistake to allow him to join PTI, including Barrister Sultan, these people will never sacrifice their political career, wealth for IK, PTI or Pakistan. One was PM, other was President AjK and leader of PTI AJK.