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Imran Khan’s political games leave him isolated as Pakistan army destroys party

IK was an idiot and to make matters worse, he had Senior Party members who were on the book of the Military ! As soon as IK took the decision of dissolving KPK and Punjab assemblies, I knew HE WAS FINISHED because only an absolute idiot would make a decision like this.

Just imagine if I someone had power in two important provinces and was still UNABLE to make the life of Military miserable. Not only this, which idiot advise him to STAY in Zaman park??

Seriously, the situation had become dire, and IK should have gone to his power base in KPK where the Pushtoons would have come out in force with their weapons drawn to support him. Instead this idiot decided to remain in Zaman park so that he would be surrounded like a street dog and humiliated.

Just shows what an idiot he is and how he lost a historical opportunity due to his stupidness to win over this Corrupt vicious Army once and for all.


No , Imran Khan did the right thing he followed what constitution of Pakistan allowed to do. So nation can go towards election

Fauj and Army had other ideas I will use , both Fuaj and Army words

Imran Khan the Civilian Leader did the right thing it was Fauj and Army who backstabbed the nation
 
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IK was an idiot and to make matters worse, he had Senior Party members who were on the book of the Military ! As soon as IK took the decision of dissolving KPK and Punjab assemblies, I knew HE WAS FINISHED because only an absolute idiot would make a decision like this.

Just imagine if I someone had power in two important provinces and was still UNABLE to make the life of Military miserable. Not only this, which idiot advise him to STAY in Zaman park??

Seriously, the situation had become dire, and IK should have gone to his power base in KPK where the Pushtoons would have come out in force with their weapons drawn to support him. Instead this idiot decided to remain in Zaman park so that he would be surrounded like a street dog and humiliated.

Just shows what an idiot he is and how he lost a historical opportunity due to his stupidness to win over this Corrupt vicious Army once and for all.
Thank you. He got nothing out of dissolving assemblies except getting his workers jailed & tortured. There's no such thing as rule of law, principles, constitution in Pakistan. I've always said that Imran Khan mistakenly thinks he's ruling a European country where people are fair & follow law.

People argue that he exposed PDM, SC, establishment by dissolving assemblies lol. What was there to expose? Everyone already knew they are corrupt! Had assemblies not been dissolved they could have been just fine and were going to win elections anyway as all economic blame goes to Shehbaz Sharif.

Also, why the hell is Imran Khan staying in Lahore? Hardly anyone came out to protect him. Few days of protests don't matter. Had Khan been in Peshawar, he would have never been arrested.
 
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Allies desert former prime minister amid disappearances and torture as powerful military reasserts control

In recent days, Imran Khan has cut an increasingly isolated figure. Since Pakistan’s former prime minister was released from jail, after a brief but explosive attempt to arrest him last month, his return has been marked by a mass exodus of the top leadership of his party, on a scale that has surprised even his critics.

Late on Thursday night, Pervez Khattak, the former chief minister and defence minister, became the latest high-profile resignation from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. He followed in the path of Khan’s former finance minister, his former human rights minister, his former information minister and his former shipping minister, who all stepped down from senior posts or left PTI altogether in recent weeks. Dozens of other federal and state ministers have followed suit.


Most of those who have not defected are now behind bars. On Thursday night, the president of PTI, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi – who recently said he would stand behind Khan during these “difficult times” – was arrested by anti-terrorism police at his home in Lahore. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Khan’s former foreign minister, still remains in prison after his arrest in May, along with several other key ministers and thousands of rank and file PTI members.

There is little question among analysts who is orchestrating the arrests and resignations. Since Khan’s relationship with the all-powerful military establishment fell apart and led to his fall from power, he has been on a crusade against the army leadership. He has accused them of attempting to assassinate him and of being behind his arrest in May, before he was released when the courts declared his detention illegal.

In response, say analysts and PTI members, the army chief is now trying to systematically break up Khan’s party, before arresting him and putting him on trial in a military court. The likelihood of Khan being allowed to contest Pakistan’s next election, due by October, is considered by most to be very slim.

“This dramatic crackdown is a clear strategy by the military to break down all the support structures that Khan has,” said Avinash Paliwal, an associate professor in international relations at Soas University of London. “Once those structures are gone, Khan is next in line.”

Yet despite Khan’s claims that this is a “crackdown never seen before in Pakistan’s history”, Paliwal said this was instead a continuation of a pattern by the military that has marred the country’s pathway to democracy since 1958, when the first military coup took place.

Since then, the military has routinely asserted itself as the most powerful political player in Pakistan, either through direct rule or by controlling and masterminding things behind the scenes. All of the country’s most powerful political parties have fallen foul of military crackdowns and arrests. Before Khan, it was the prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, who in 2017, after falling out with the military, was toppled from power and jailed for corruption, as were several others before him.

“This is no anomaly, it is something that the military does occasionally whenever it feels that it needs to tame a civilian political outlet which is getting too big for its boots,” said Paliwal. “The military is the only party that is ruling the country.”

Khan would not be the first prime minister to be put on trial by the military. In 1977, the prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was deposed in a military coup, put on trial under martial law and then executed.

The pressures imposed on senior figures, and even those lower down the ranks of PTI, have been stark. One senior party leader who was arrested in May and has since resigned from PTI described being handed over by police to the notorious military agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

“For me they used multiple methods to pressure me to leave the party, but one of the worst was torture,” he said, requesting anonymity over fear of the military. “They tied my feet and hung me upside down and I was like a punching bag for them. They were beating with sticks and punches and kicking me.

“They called my family and threatened them and told me that they would pick up my children and entire family if I don’t leave the party. The offer I was given was that if I left PTI, I would get relief. I knew there was no other way.”

Even those lower down in the party described the pressure they were receiving from the military, with many accused of taking part in violent riots and protests that erupted on 9 May after Khan’s arrest. Homes and headquarters of the military were among the buildings attacked in the violence.

Since then, the military and government have described it as a “black day” for Pakistan and vowed to bring the full force of the state down on those who took part, while accusing Khan of being the mastermind. Those who participated, and even those who were just affiliated with the party, have been rounded up in their thousands and charged with terrorism offences, with some due to face trial in military courts.

The brother of a PTI youth wing leader said his whole family had been in hiding since 9 May, after experiencing raids on their homes and constant harassment by police. He said he had been separated from his wife and newborn baby for almost a month as a result.

“Why are they harassing me or my parents just because my brother is part of the PTI leadership?” he said. “We have received indirect messages to ‘quit PTI if you don’t want to be in this situation’. This is the worst political situation I’ve seen in my life.”

Human rights groups have expressed concern that the military are turning to their other notorious strategy of intimidation for those aligned with PTI or opposed to the military: disappearances.

The pro-PTI journalist Imran Riaz Khan has been missing since 11 May. On Sunday, Murad Akbar, the brother of a former adviser to Imran Khan, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, was picked up from the family home and has not been seen since, with the police denying any knowledge of his whereabouts.

“We all know who is responsible,” said Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who is in the UK and no longer an office bearer in PTI but is named as an accused in one of the prominent corruption cases against Khan. “My brother has no involvement in politics. Going after my brother and abducting him is to pressurise me.”

On Thursday night, the prominent lawyer and rights activist Jibran Nasir, who was an outspoken critic of the military, was picked up by unidentified men in Karachi, according to his wife.

Yet for all the pressure being exerted, the scale of the defections and speed of the collapse of PTI has exceeded that of any other party that has faced a similar crackdown. Analysts say it is a reflection of the ideological weakness of PTI under Khan, who failed to build any institutions within the party and relied solely on his own populist appeal to keep it together.

There had been mounting frustration at Khan’s political games. Though his public crusade has been to demand general elections as soon as possible, according to those in PTI’s former top leadership, and confirmed by the law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, behind the scenes Khan twice torpedoed offers by the ruling coalition to hold elections.

The first offer came in May last year and the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, had even written his resignation speech, but after the government approached Khan with the election proposal, he announced his “long march” protest. Not wanting to look like they were bowing to pressure, the government called off the plan.

Then, during supreme court-mandated negotiations between PTI and the government in early May, the government proposed dissolving the parliament by July and holding elections at the end of September. PTI senior leaders in the meeting were enthusiastic, but after a phone-call with Khan, were told to reject the plan and looked visibly dejected according to those in the negotiations.

As trust in Khan’s loyalty to his party members has diminished, few at the upper levels of PTI have proved willing to stand up to the military and face the likely draconian consequences, instead choosing to leave him. A former senior party leader confirmed that several of those who resigned were now in discussion for a plan to rebuild PTI “minus Khan” as a way to “save the party”.

“It is the bitter truth [that] Khan does not care about his workers and close aides and what they go through or face,” he said. “Anyone who has known him closely, knows he just thinks about himself. Khan is a big narcissist.”


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IK was an idiot and to make matters worse, he had Senior Party members who were on the book of the Military ! As soon as IK took the decision of dissolving KPK and Punjab assemblies, I knew HE WAS FINISHED because only an absolute idiot would make a decision like this.

Just imagine if someone had power in two important provinces and was still UNABLE to make the life of Military miserable. Not only this, which idiot advise him to STAY in Zaman park??

Seriously, the situation had become dire, and IK should have gone to his power base in KPK where the Pushtoons would have come out in force with their weapons drawn to support him. Instead this idiot decided to remain in Zaman park so that he would be surrounded like a street dog and humiliated.

Just shows what an idiot he is and how he lost a historical opportunity due to his stupidness to win over this Corrupt vicious Army once and for all.

Let's dispel some Urban Myths about Imran Khan: He is a PUNJABI! And he insults Punjabis by claiming to be some Pashtun/Pathan. If it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, it is a duck!! Watch his effing Urdu!!

But he has, admirably, fooled people in KPK to think he is one of them. He is not. Javed Miandad, the greatest Pakistani batsman, also has a 'Khan' in his name. He is not a Pathan and neither is Imran. Some missing pigments or extra pigments don't make one who is not.

And what power-base in KPK? A power base where Imran's most trusted person like Pervez Khattak left after just a few days after 9/5 and that too without facing any prison?? Do you guys know that STUPID Imran let go of his control of KPK by dissolving the Assemblies? So what difference if Zaman Park or KPK then? Zaman Park is the 'home' of this Punjabi guy and that's why he is there!!!

And weapons drawn to support him in KPK? You are asking for a civil war in Pakistan!! How are YOU different from the likes of TTP??

How low PDF members--especially the overseas Pakistanis, comfortable in their foreign abodes, can sink!!! Makes my blood boil in rage!! Burn your homeland over some fantasies led by an intellectually and morally bankrupt person like Imran Khan!!
 
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The key thing to remember is that the army tolerated his rhetoric against former COAS and even Chief Justices. However, their patience had to thin out sooner or later. That's just reality.

And his minions' attack on GHQ and various other military installations was the last straw. I can't stress just how supremely moronic that move was.

I mean, attacking army outposts with sticks and stones? Are you fuckin' nuts?!

As far as I'm concerned, the 'establishment' could've treated it as a 'Declaration of War' or something close to that effect but to their credit, they only deployed the riot force.

And then there were online pundits and keyboard warriors, beckoning for an all-out civil war while comfortably settled overseas, trying to rile up the young, brainless political minions, urging them to throw their lives away for their own personal gratification.

Long story short, why the surprised Pickachu face?! Do stupid things, win stupid prizes, it's that simple.

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IK was an idiot and to make matters worse, he had Senior Party members who were on the book of the Military ! As soon as IK took the decision of dissolving KPK and Punjab assemblies, I knew HE WAS FINISHED because only an absolute idiot would make a decision like this.

Just imagine if someone had power in two important provinces and was still UNABLE to make the life of Military miserable. Not only this, which idiot advise him to STAY in Zaman park??

Seriously, the situation had become dire, and IK should have gone to his power base in KPK where the Pushtoons would have come out in force with their weapons drawn to support him. Instead this idiot decided to remain in Zaman park so that he would be surrounded like a street dog and humiliated.

Just shows what an idiot he is and how he lost a historical opportunity due to his stupidness to win over this Corrupt vicious Army once and for all.
This was akin to Imam Hussein going to Kufa to kick start the rebellion against Yazid. Punjabis played the role of Kuffans.
 
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The way I see is little diffrent then most commenting here or on pakistani prostitute Media. With the exception of one or 2 Rest were all useless and 2 faced them leaving PTI is a blessing not a breakup. Khan should stay away from electable...Longer Military slash PDM holds on to power illegally better for PTI

Countries economy can only grow when locals invest in it , Well let's face it, who is going to trust them and invest in Pakistan and when I say who I mean pakistani nationals and the answer is No one. Foreigners will invest? So forget about what they doing to PTI ask what they going to do to save themselves from economic Meltdown...

Economic meltdown is not General's problem, their problem is to have a govt who gives them a free hand, no questions asked no accountability. Give Army inc. a free hands to do their dirty work. Generals live in a separate world, they and their families have nothing to do with Pakistan. Their kids get education from Army schools and proceed to foreign universities, their begmat have their own social life, going to their all facility hospitals for free, Generals play Golf 5 days a week.

If you ever have a chance to sit among the company of Army families you will realize they are not from Pakistan!!
 
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Most of IK haters dont hate IK. They just hate Niazis. You will find an example somewhere on this page.
Comical.
 
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The key thing to remember is that the army tolerated his rhetoric against former COAS and even Chief Justices. However, their patience had to thin out sooner or later. That's just reality.

And his minions' attack on GHQ and various other military installations was the last straw. I can't stress just how supremely moronic that move was.

I mean, attacking army outposts with sticks and stones? Are you fuckin' nuts?!

As far as I'm concerned, the 'establishment' could've treated it as a 'Declaration of War' or something close to that effect but to their credit, they only deployed the riot force.

And then there were online pundits and keyboard warriors, beckoning for an all-out civil war while comfortably settled overseas, trying to rile up the young, brainless political minions, urging them to throw their lives away for their own personal gratification.

Long story short, why the surprised Pickachu face?! Do stupid things, win stupid prizes, it's that simple.
Neither Imran Khan nor senior leadership ordered attacks on GHQ or army. It was simply public blowback to the stupidity of the establishment for potentially harming the most popular leader.

If I were against Imran, I wouldn't have done anything retarded like trying to arrest or kill him. In fact, I would have just let him stay in power as the painful economic decisions he was taking were going to make him a one term prime minister anyway. Yet, you can always count on the establishment to do the stupidest things. They need to administer IQ tests before placing such people on top.

As for keyboard warriors causing unrest, that's silly. Did you know 220 million Pakistanis produce $25 billion exports compared to $30 billion remittances from a few million expatriates? They are literally lifesupport for Pakistan, without them you would have been bankrupt long ago. Many of those expatriates toil in awful jobs in the middle east to support lazy, useless family back home. If you don't want them involved then don't take their fcking money!
 
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IK was an idiot and to make matters worse, he had Senior Party members who were on the book of the Military ! As soon as IK took the decision of dissolving KPK and Punjab assemblies, I knew HE WAS FINISHED because only an absolute idiot would make a decision like this.

Just imagine if someone had power in two important provinces and was still UNABLE to make the life of Military miserable. Not only this, which idiot advise him to STAY in Zaman park??

Seriously, the situation had become dire, and IK should have gone to his power base in KPK where the Pushtoons would have come out in force with their weapons drawn to support him. Instead this idiot decided to remain in Zaman park so that he would be surrounded like a street dog and humiliated.

Just shows what an idiot he is and how he lost a historical opportunity due to his stupidness to win over this Corrupt vicious Army once and for all.
It was people like Fawad ch that now ran away with tails between their legs. Ch Pervaiz Ilahi was on record saying that had this dabbu arrested before (after his 1st arrest) the government would not have fallen. I dont agree with staying in Punjab was a worst idea, people of Punjab specially Lahore took a hell of a beating but did not allow his arrest. His arrest happened in Islamabad. Also his constant mantra of pessimism is what has led to this enemies now conveniently stepping over every red line. N league with no support is much better in dealing with these Genralz because they know how to keep these dogs on a leash. IK on the other hand despite huge support did nothing and wanted to play in a system that is designed to make sure he looses. What is happening today is the result of the choices he has made before and after the fall of his government including giving that bastard bajwa extension. History has proven whenever an army chief is given extension, he has always bitten on the *** of those giving that.
 
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Yeah I read this statement in the news and I actually thought for a second that he was misquoted or something, but no, the guy actually did say it.

Who tf do we have as finance minister?
Jokers. political appointment... the choice of Bajwa.
 
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