quit when you are ahead...or do the work yourself. It's common knowledge that he did it Even guys like Mani Shankar Aiyar had to try and put it in a context because the rhetoric towards the end was quite sharp and abusive.
It was only at the fag end of the campaign, when the "neck-and-neck" nature of the pre-election polls indicated that both Imran's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice) and the Sharifs' Pakistan Muslim League-N needed to draw away some of the fringe extremist voters to overtake their rivals that both abandoned reason and decency to out-bombast the other by raking up anti-Indian and even anti-Hindu sentiment. That was more in the nature of electoral one-upmanship than serious policy as these end-of-the-campaign slurs were quite out of sync with the more carefully thought out manifesto pledges.
https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/what-imran-khan-win-means-for-india-by-mani-shankar-aiyar-1890382
NEW DEHLI: India has intensified contacts with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman
Imran Khan in the run-up to government formation reported
The Times of India.
The Indian mission remains in touch with senior PTI leaders who are likely to play an important role in the new government, the Times of India said quoting unnamed sources.
While the PTI campaign was not completely devoid of anti-India rhetoric, the Indian side understands that this had more to do with the rough and tumble of Pakistan politics than any antipathy of India.
Khan's party too has been appreciative of the fact that the Indian side, contrary to the popular perception in Pakistan that the Narendra Modi government wanted Nawaz Sharif's party to return to power, remained equidistant from all parties.
"They know that the Indian mission was as much in touch with PTI as with PML-N or even with PPP", said a source.
https://nation.com.pk/30-Jul-2018/i...ith-pti-as-imran-moves-to-form-government-toi
Imran Khan, with his rabidly anti-India speeches, will certainly not provide this kind of bonhomie and so if he does come to power there may be uncertain times ahead. But as India and Indians know too well, Imran has not been alone in his anti-India stance.
https://timesofislamabad.com/22-Jul-2018/how-will-india-deal-with-pm-imran-khan