Will Imran Khan Return to Power After US Coup?

[Jango]

I respect your opinion and agree with most of it.

But I don't see anything changing even if he comes back, even if it's with a 2/3rds majority. The problem is not just with the current COAS but the entire system that allows an unaccountable deep state to amass a power monopoly. It can only be broken with a totally new social contract and constitution. I hope IK realizes this.

You see, I'm not okay with incremental improvement. It's simply not meaningful enough when you're a failing state like Pakistan. Within this system, incremental improvement (at best) is all we can hope for.

Oh I agree with you, the system is rotten to the core.

But we do have to carefully balance an overhaul of the system, and current operation.

Overhauling a system and having the same people at the helm isn't gonna do much good

 

[Ssan]

Sheikh Mujib was dealing with a regime that is traditionally tolerant of treachery in fact to this day it tolerates traitors in its midst and even patronizes them. Sheikh Mujeeb was in military custody after the hostilities started and they could've very easily executed him, but true to form they let me him go and get back to East Pakistan.

Also Sheikh Mujib had full backing and support of USSR and India, he could take on the establishment with full blown facilitation from a super power and a regional power.

Unlike Mujeeb,, IK is not a traitor nor a namak haram and definitely not a ethnocentric bigot peddling hatred. He has to work within the system without destroying it, a much more complicated and difficult proposition than the scorch earth approach of Mujeeb.

Yup, not to mention the Biharis his mukti bahini folk killed that triggered the martial law.

Oh I agree with you, the system is rotten to the core.

But we do have to carefully balance an overhaul of the system, and current operation.

Overhauling a system and having the same people at the helm isn't gonna do much good

The thing is even if IK got back with 2/3rds majority in NA, he couldn’t pass any amendments until he also got 2/3rds in Senate which will take another 4 years minimum. I am not sure if an amendment to the constitution can be made via referendum or not.