Margret thatcher was forced to resign when she lost confidence of her own party members. Boris Johnson also became UK P.M. through political machinations against Teresa May. This is the standard parliamentary procedure in democracies. It is neither abnormal nor anything to worry about for a popular leader.
PTI is a minority government therefore it was extremely important to keep the party members and the allies together. Apparently Imran Khan has failed to do so. For example if a large section of his party is unhappy with Buzdar; why couldn't be preplaced as Chief Minister of Punjab?
Problem in Pakistan is the 'Hero worship' of the leader by the some of the members of his own party that's why all the commotion.
The crux of the issue isn't a democratic government being removed through a no-confidence motion. It should be done by all means.
And the PTI coalition had it's many faults as well. There were instances where they didn't keep their allies happy. Now, whether that was right or wrong as a whole is another debate.
But, the manner in which this no-confidence is being carried out is another debate altogether, and the real issue. Disregarding the foreign angle for a minute (why would the US Charge d' Affairs meet Fazulr Rehman and Maryam?), do you believe that it is right to topple a government by buying votes of government MNA's through money and tickets? You just sold yourself to the highest bidder. You did not represent your constituency, you did not represent your party ticket, but sold yourself and your vote, in supposedly the highest democratic forum of the country.
If you believe the government isn't working as it should, resign from the government ticket, and contest elections again and let the people decide. They can vote out the government, and then an in-house change can be carried out.
the primary reason from the current problems are machinations due to Aleem Khan & Jehangir Tareen and the arrogance of Imran Khan. That implies that Imran has not been able to control his party members.
That is the problem here.
You do not serve the fragile egos of these MNA's, you do not give them development funds (read bribes), not have them sitting in the front row of a press conference, not plaster their face on a poster, and they get offended.
Now tell me sir, btw, you are one of the few people in this forum I genuinely respect and like to read posts of, how can a government perform across the board accountability including in it's own ranks, when you have seen what that leads to? You remain bipartisan, let an institution do it's job, and what happens is that your party members then blackmail you? How can you have across the board accountability in this atmosphere?
What happened to Aleem Khan isn't anything new. I personally know of people who were jailed by NAB for 1.5 years consecutively just for an allegation of a mere Rs 300,000. And they weren't even politically affiliated! After 1.5 years the high court granted them bail and ordered NAB to wrap up this sham. Point being, NAB doesn't display this ineptness against politicians only, but to everyone in this land.
