IK needs a new team of advisors and a wider coalition of supporters, especially amongst non-Pakistanis.
He need to pick the right people, that can build a long term vision of economic growth, and find investors willing to support it. Find out the terms under which those investors would be willing to invest and make just enough of those policy proposals part of his party’s platform, to guarantee investment, but not give away so much to alienate the elite amongst the voter and donor base. He needs a plan to make all the rich of Pakistan way more richer.
The PTI needs to hire lobbyists around the world and build contacts across the political spectrum, domestically and internationally, especially on the left.
Formulating a balanced foreign policy agenda, so if re-elected, western foreign powers don’t feel a return of the PTI will hurt their interests or undermine Indian economic growth, in which many western financial institutions are invested. For example, leverage his years of efforts to settle the Afghan issue, to build a plan with the Afghans to jump start transit trade through Afghanistan. With a Pakistani route to Central Asia, Pakistan can utilize it proximity to Afghan, not in support of a war, but in a way for western and gulf firms to make money, especially in lithium mining. A commodity whose demand will keep going up. This good will with the Afghans is one capability IK genuinely has. He lost his government. In part because of the perception he build around the “Absolutely Not” statement he made.
Have an actual plan to rebuild relations with India, that doesn’t abandon the Kashmir but pivots to new way to support the Kashmiris without making it the constant drum beat.
He needs a plan of succession, so the reforms don’t die with him.
New PTI motto is going to have to be “Sua Sponte”
