Why has Imran Khan and the PTI failed to deliver?

[Hyde]

I think the reason is very straightforward

PTI won the election on the bases of criticising other parties. They never presented concrete plan to address the core issues and reasoned their shortcomings with hope of “we will bring able people to address these issues”

but since PTI came into power they have still not found people who can actually deliver. They did not find interior minister for long time so Imran Khan was the interior minister himself. They found one finance minister but Imran Khan wasn’t happy with his performance so he started borrowing ex-finance ministers from other parties…and such is the story for most posts

they have basically been running the government for the last 3 years but still acts like they will find people and will do this n that. The only consistency I see is in the foreign ministry and that is doing the job very well

 

[mudas777]

Most of the points you made are true but you talk as if NS or Zardari would have done better. I have reason to think they would have done better, indeed things would have been even worse. If IK has failed on back of three years what does 30 years of PML-N/PPP rule do for Pakistan? Since 1990s Pakistan has stagnated. In fact most of the structural issues that are holding Pakistan down date from that period.

I don't think IK has done any worse then the old guard - indeed he has done better but no doubt that he has failed against the high expectations. By that measure he has failed and the reason is simple. Pakistan's problems are deep rooted and would require major purges and changes. With a wobbly coalition and think majority IK from day one was on think ice and did not have the firm foundation to really purge and carve the rotten system.

The sad fact is the Pakistani political landscape would not allow any form of strong reformist leader to emerge or to effect change.

All the issues Pakistan faces like inflation etc are fundamental to Pakistan's structural issues and the global economy. I want to know how NS or Zardari would deal with these issues. Have they even proposed a alternative policy to address the issues?

Nope.

He have got good intentions but Pakistan needs a leader with 2/3 majority to put the system on the right footing. Country is saddled with the problems from political, economical, educational, judiciary, lack of industrialization to name the few. Its not a job of a lone ranger when 40 thieves are pulling your legs to bring you down. He has shown the right way but walking on that path alone is something else.
For a start i think all crop of current politicians inside and outside the parliament without exception should be put on the truck and send them to the Taliban for the good keep. Our country needs a fresh and let them get the looted money out of them and they can have their cut in return. At least i haven't said put them down like a rabbi infected fox as it will be against their human rights and EU may cancel our GSP + status. Once politicians are dealt, then we can contract out our justice system to them, followed by lawyers and sold out journalists and so on. Our country needs a major surgery and without it our country prosperity wheels will keep on coming off.

 

[R Wing]

You make the assumption that IK enjoyed the actual freedom to select the best team. The problem in parliamentary system is you have limitations and handicaps. It's not like in corporate sector or even sport where you just pick the best guy for the job.

In this case the choice of team will be taken with eye to all the political implications and intrique that go on. In addition there are even the warped Pakistani political culture to be respected. I give on example. I have for some time been reading on Atif Mian, one of the most brilliant living economists and sort of towering intellect who could play the role of a 'Young Turk' and help purge the Pakistani economic order. He was in fact early in the IK tenure selected as a advisor but then a there was uproar because it came out he was a Ahmedi. He was quitely removed from the role.

It's all these limitations that have crippled any chance to bring about real change. Please don't tell me though that those who ran the country into the ground like Zardari or NS are or have done any better.

I actually acknowledged that these pressures exist. But the PM still has wide latitude (minus Ahmadis in public office, I agree with you there) --- and if the system doesn't allow anything, then try to bring some kind of emergency and either succeed and go down as a technocratic authoritarian... or not.

This is neither here nor there. What's the point?

Again, I am not an idiot --- obviously I am well-aware of the pressures and limitations of this pathetic parliamentary system. But this doesn't explain a lot of other decisions where he does have some freedom and independence. Please read my posts again to catch this nuance.

PS: I have met and heard Atif Mian at Princeton many times. He's actually quite smart.

He have got good intentions but Pakistan needs a leader with 2/3 majority to put the system on the right footing. Country is saddled with the problems from political, economical, educational, judiciary, lack of industrialization to name the few. Its not a job of a lone ranger when 40 thieves are pulling your legs to bring you down. He has shown the right way but walking on that path alone is something else.
For a start i think all crop of current politicians inside and outside the parliament without exception should be put on the truck and send them to the Taliban for the good keep. Our country needs a fresh and let them get the looted money out of them and they can have their cut in return. At least i haven't said put them down like a rabbi infected fox as it will be against their human rights and EU may cancel our GSP + status. Once politicians are dealt, then we can contract out our justice system to them, followed by lawyers and sold out journalists and so on. Our country needs a major surgery and without it our country prosperity wheels will keep on coming off.

Again, agreed --- but even without it, PM could have appointed a KILLER Punjab CM, even better SAPMs (100% freedom and zero interference), better police chiefs, etc etc etc. The list goes on.

Of course things would have been much better with a 2/3rd majority as political blackmailing would not have been such an issue. But even without it, there are many things internally that IK can and should have done WAY better. We shouldn't use this disadvantage to excuse all his decision-making.

 

[cloud4000]

Has PTI and Imran Khan failed or is he and his supporters (as well detractors) had unrealistic expectations with his administration? I remember the moment he was elected, the country was electric with anticipation. No more so than the Pakistan diaspora, with many claiming that they are returning home to Naya Pakistan.

Things have not turned out as imagined.

Nevertheless, as an Indian, it doesn't matter who is Pakistan's PM, but as a person and politician, I think he is one of the better ones. His biggest appeal is his lack of corruption. Not one incident to corruption has been linked while both Butto/Zardari and Sharif were walking posters of it.

Whatever his missteps, IK is the best choice going forward, simply for the reason that there's no better choice. Honestly,, three years is too short a time frame to judge success given the current world we live in.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Imran Khan didn't realize how totally corrupt and rotten to the core Pakistani:

1. political,
2. economic,
3. education,
4. media,
5. legal,
6. police,
7. bureaucracy,
8. civil society,
9. religious mafia,
10. business corporate,
11. and all other societal sectors...

...have become. He is surrounded by idiots and incompetent fools that in a parliamentary system make up the PTI.

Why? Was he born and raised in Lala Land?

What was he doing with Cheeni Chor billionaire Jehangir Tareen for ten years?

Why does PTI have so many stay orders on the foreign funding case?

What action did he take after the Peshawar Metro Project ballooned to Re. 70 billion? Why are there stay orders on this to prevent investigation?

Why has he prevented audit of $8 billion leaving the country as "hot money" when he came to power?

When he was screaming and squealing Panama Papers day and night, did he not bother to just ask his own senior colleagues whether they also have any off shore accounts in places like Pandora?

I mean where do you start and finish with PM Imran Khan's incompetencies and his innocent relations with every corrupt person under the sun?

He's nothing but an attention seeker, a cheap wannabe Prime Minister. India saw him as such and annexed Indian Occupied Kashmir for the first time in 72-years within the first year of him becoming the Prime Minister.

 

[Clutch]

Why? Was he born and raised in Lala Land?

What was he doing with Cheeni Chor billionaire Jehangir Tareen for ten years?

Why does PTI have so many stay orders on the foreign funding case?

What action did he take after the Peshawar Metro Project ballooned to Re. 70 billion? Why are there stay orders on this to prevent investigation?

Why has he prevented audit of $8 billion leaving the country as "hot money" when he came to power?

When he was screaming and squealing Panama Papers day and night, did he not bother to just ask his own senior colleagues whether they also have any off shore accounts in places like Pandora?

I mean where do you start and finish with PM Imran Khan's incompetencies and his innocent relations with every corrupt person under the son?

He's nothing but an attention seeker, a cheap wannabe Prime Minister. India saw him as such and annexed Indian Occupied Kashmir for the first time in 72-years within the first year of him becoming the Prime Minister.

He is swimming in a gutter... Of course he will get covered in feces ..

 

[Maula Jatt]

Shut up haters!

 

[FuturePAF]

He is swimming in a gutter... Of course he will get covered in feces ..

It’s not possible to fight all that ailes Pakistan at once, but he should have employed the “defeat in detail”strategy. Focused all his efforts to solve one department at a time. Start with practical things and build up momentum with the public, winning support as he goes along. Coordinating with those experts that have real world experience and can execute on plans as quickly as possible.

What he needs is more time to implement these kinds of reforms (across the board but one department at a time), but in order to do that he has to win the next election, and in order to do that he needs to do something big to win back popular support and momentum. The thing he can implement now are agricultural reforms coupled with rapidly increasing agricultural productivity. This will increase employment as well as decrease commodity prices. If he looks like he has solved one of the basic concerns of the public, namely food security and independence from importation, people may give him another chance. But the key is actually solving, which is to say implementing and seeing real results.

This is where he should have his CPEC team reach out to the Chinese to implement the agricultural modernization plan ASAP, so that results can be seen in the next 12 months, just in time for the people to see results before the 2023 election. He needs to incentivize investors, especially from the diaspora to put more of their money into agricultural modernization, so that it change can occur ASAP. He needs to come up with innovative methods to make financing as sustainable as possible and not another loan the country will have to carry; reforms to attract investment not loans and crippling debt, as past government have done.

 

[IceCold]

What is the alternative? NawaZ, Mariyum, Zardari, that billawaja ka Bhutto? Thanks but no thanks, i shall stand with IK.
A major part of this nation does not pay their taxes yet have the audacity to complain about state services. As for inflation where hasn't it happened? See the develop countries and how they are struggling, what chance does Pakistan have?

 

[baqai]

among his several mistakes, i think the mistake which costed him a lot is inflated ego, one should admit when one is wrong, take steps to fix the problem, learn from mistakes and improve things. Nobody questions his corruption on monetary terms but i personally do question his corruption when it comes to morals and ethics.

IK has bring his to the stage that a common person now is saying "nawaz and zardari were better than this" this has SERIOUSLY hampered endless efforts ever made to break the two party stronghold by PTI (and with external help) managed to break in previous elections.

The frustrating part is that instead of calling spade a spade we see people idolizing and justifying anything/everything being done, this is the same mistake poor Karachities did with Altaf, you all are more than welcome to dig down my previous posts and you will find me saying "PTI is nothing but modern burgerized version of MQM in making"

 

[RealNapster]

Contributing factors. Listed based on their contribution level... ( 1 mean highest).

1. COVID

2. Global inflation

3. Incompetent team

4. The idiotic decision of IK to fight all parties and all mafias simultaneously

 

[imadul]

He made lots of mistakes.
Wrong selection
Lack of attention about governance matters
Focus just to become PM
Repelling sincere and competent people

But his alternatives are worse than worse.
Imagine after the DEMOLITION SQUAD OF SARIF BROTHERS AND ZARDARI BACHA SAQQA RAJ, bilawajeh zardari and maryam nawaz-the-revengeful govern us, and then their children and their children.

 

[Super Falcon]

Imran let alone what he resolved he created more issues for poor he brought us to ecnomical crisis he was not serious to resolve issues but he created more corruption was at peak

My additional 2 cents. I think the PTI govt should have pumped Add money in the electronic, print, visual and social media. It is unfortunately a necessary evil in our country where people watch political talk shows for entertainment. Heck these political talk shows get more advertising revenue than sporting events.

People constantly being fed anti PTI barking by some famous notorious news anchors has played a massive role in influencing people's minds.

Stop living as blind pti patwari

 

[Musalman]

I remember in 2008 election, when my son was around 4-5 years old, he saw Imran's picture and said "Baba he is going to win." I said Do you know what he do? He said yes, bataain karta hai (He talks).
Imran Khan only talks and is loaded with hate. He did not do anything infact he even stopped all the projects started by PMLN government. This killed any chance of these projects earning money. Plus not every project done by PMLN had corruption.

 

[Zarvan]

- Was it because of too much idealism by the leader IK in his pre-election, campaign rhetoric which was completely out of sync with the ground realities of the country and how the country needed to actually be governed? End result he has badly alienated his supporters, the educated, middle class who expected him to swiftly end all their problems with a magic wand?

- Was it because in the effort to gain power, he had to bring in electables from other parties but that has resulted in the party being filled with yes men, opportunists, badniyat individuals who are actually working behind the PTI leaders back?

- Was it because of the leader IK just having badniyat intentions from the very start?

- Was it because the leader IK completely underestimated the power of the opposition who have had massive tentacles in the state and its institutions i.e. the police, judiciary, SBP, FBR, bureacracy and federal, provincial ministries and he in term blindly, immaturely thought that all these institutions would be easily fixable?

- Was it because the leader IK squandered a golden opportunity to go after the opposition brutally like a dictator and naively expected the state institutions to efficiently and justly hold them accountable in a speedy and just manner?

- Was it because he did not correctly prioritize the issues he needed to address expediently and made the mistake of focusing too much on issues, policies that will not really switch the electoral results in his favour?

- Overconfidence and arrogance that the army will continue to indefinately back him and that he did not really need to deliver quick, fast, urgent results to switch the electorate votes in his favour?

- Just overall incompetency i.e. he tried his best but governing Pakistan was totally beyond his capabilities.

I personally think it is a combination of the above. Even IK diehard supporters are now resigned to acknowledge that no matter whatever problems or challenges IK and the PTI had to face and encounter during the tenure, the bottom line is that they were the party in charge in the federal government, the buck stops at the bottom line which is they did not deliver at all and they have left Pakistan in a ten times worse state then when they took charge and if the common person on the street is ten times worse off vs when they took charge then there is no point of them governing the country.

The biggest tragedy about this whole saga and experience is that i seriously doubt the educated class, middle class, youth, overseas Pakistani's will ever participate in Pakistani elections ever again and will ever have faith in any new face. In fact it is now very much possible where the traditionally strong political parties like PML N, PPP e.t.c will now reference the PTI experience and propagate "Corrupt but Competent" is always the right, best choice for the nation vs "Non-Corrupt but incompetent". An untried person, a new person cannot be trusted to govern Pakistan as everyone has seen and experienced with the PTI

For 70 years Pakistan was allowed to be destroyed. You let MAFIAS peneterate and destroy whole system. Then even with pandemic which has caused harm to entire world economy you want Khan to pull out a miracle, when he doesn't even have simple majority on his own. This country is headed in a direction where I am afraid we can go towards a bloody revolution.