Imran Khan is leading a revolt against the present regime under the garb and farce of democracy. He has nothing to lose and democracy is not what he wants. He just wants a shot at the PM.
His long march isn't designed to topple the government on the 14th. His antics are wilier than that and bare naked for the discerning eye to see. The march on the 14th is designed to mount pressure on the Federal government and compel it to use force, which is the prime reason why he has welcomed the Canadian aggressor to join his march so as to improve his chances of making this horrendous likelihood a most certain possibility. Why? So that IK may play the ace of spades in politics - the victim-card - the very card Bhutto played before him and Bhutto before that. His march has three stages. The first having preceded this sentence, the second is to open the constituencies for re-counting - the result of which would naturally cascade into the penultimate stage. That of mid-terms. If his plan succeeds, he will then have mid-terms and political sympathy. If his plan doesn't succeed he is none the worse off than he is right now, conniving his next big co-conspiracy to heckle the PML-N government and impair them from carrying out their duties.
Why would he do that? Because the naive and puerile politician which many of us consider Imran to be, he is not. He has developed a knack for the political games that all Pakistani politicians must engage one another in. If he allows NS to continue unabated, the two most painstaking concerns of present-day Pakistan stand to be eliminated for good. Namely, terrorism and loadshedding. Any politician worth his salt can not bare to stand the thought of such progress being made by a rival political party and, therefore, must naturally step into the equation and do what he must, to prevent that eventuality. [The Chaudhries see this happening too and have, quite foolishly, imported an angry, old man from Canada to do their bidding, amass the masses and see the end of the present government. Their brains have never served them well and it appears, to me at least, that this may be their final undoing. After Qadri is incarcerated for crimes against the State (and hopefully hanged) they may have no one left to turn to, but as @
Chak Bamu can most certainly testify, in Pakistan kul ka kissi ko nai pata!]
As an article I read earlier today elucidated, Imran has raised himself to the status matching that of the PM of Pakistan? How you ask?
Simple. Ask yourself the question, if NS goes today....who will replace him? It's not Zardari, it's not Sheikh Rasheed, it's not TuQ.....it's Imran Khan. His confrontational antics have served him well. By repeatedly making headlines stressing the need for electoral reforms he has managed to pull the wool over everybody's eyes and made them think that in this day and age of darkness he stands apart, the bright, shining beacon of democracy. Nothing could be farther from the truth as is evident from his unconstitutional, undemocratic and criminal call for the murder of the entire Sharif family. A responsible politician? Not at all. A ruthless, self-righteous war-machine whose hunger for the secretariat will see him burn Pakistan to the ground. But when has that mattered to his loyal support. Death to the Sharifs! And although the charged and energetic young following of IK will use the motorway, which the Sharif brothers constructed, to commute to Islamabad, that does not even remotely absolve the noora goons of the heinous crime of significantly enhancing the infrastructure of Lahore.
Ungrateful is an understatement.
If the march does fail to achieve its intended goal, whether by way of coup (because IK has dangerously aligned himself with Maulana Canada who, for lack of a better word, is a terrorist and is inciting violence, murder and civil disorder) or by way of popular disapproval as shall be evident if the march fizzles out before its intended objective is achieved, IK would have lost nothing. He would return to his province, as would his loyal, young supporters. Ready to march out under the shadow of their leader to carry out, without so much as it giving it a thought, whatever rotten and unjust design that he may hatch in the future.
Postscript (for the highly unlikely eventuality that NS visits this thread and reads this comment): If you lose your constituency because of the re-counting, fret not! Contest from Islamabad in the mid-terms. IK has quite categorically stated, on Mubashir Luqman's show, that he will halt the construction of the Metrobus project in Islamabad, and I can assure you that no Islooite wants that! Stand from here and we will usher you back into the NA so that you may smite the dark and undemocratic force that IK has become and also to complete the Islamabad - Rawlpindi Metrobus project!
