Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and the cult followers are feeling ecstatic over the exuberance and violence of the ones taking part in protests, and are eagerly waiting for their arrival in Islamabad at D-Chowk in huge numbers. The over-optimists imagined that a big number had reached the D-Chowk.
While the participation of protesters from Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) has been insignificant, the bulk of the marchers is from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), which was expected.
The brainwashed cults are so joyous that the response of the people in Pakistan is massive. This impression was built by the types of Shahbaz Gill and Jibran through fake videos. In their view, the surging crowds have given shivers to the govt. They assume that the Government locked down the country and paralyzed the state machinery out of fear. They are pleased that the Government is losing PKR 195 billion daily to block the marchers.
Protests launched by Pakistani expats affiliated with PTI in Western capitals were another matter of delight for the cults.
The drawing room warriors are over-exuberant. They danced in their comfortable homes after receiving news of the forcible removal of containers and other obstacles, and the forward move of the caravans towards Islamabad. They added their names to the list of jihadis by copy-pasting and forwarding the fake videos.
Their joys knew no bounds when they learned that 119 policemen of Punjab Police had been injured and one constable died in the scuffle with the violent mobsters coming from KP. Twenty-two police vehicles have been destroyed or damaged. A few containers were destroyed.
Among the protestors, many were armed with weapons, knives, and rods, and had fired their guns at the law enforcers. Some of them were injured.
Moreover, on November 26, four Rangers personnel were martyred when miscreants of the PTI rally turned over a vehicle to them in Islamabad. The incident occurred at the Srinagar Highway where the driver hit his vehicle into Rangers officials who were on duty to maintain law and order during PTI’s protest march on D-Chowk. Five other Rangers and police personnel suffered critical injuries in the incident.
Under Article 245, the Pakistan Army has been called in to deal with the miscreants with an iron hand. Orders have also been issued to shoot miscreants and troublemakers on sight.
While the party leader is smugly sitting in jail and making minute-to-minute progress, some of the party leaders in the field have either got themselves arrested by the police voluntarily, or are keeping themselves and their family members at a safe distance.
They all are expecting the workers and their sons to cross all the hurdles, combat with the police, bear with the baton charges and teargas shelling and the cold winter boldly, sacrifice their lives, or get locked up in jails on criminal charges. For them, the sole mission was to reach D-Chowk at all costs even at the peril of their lives.
By late evening, the Peshawar prong reached the outskirts of Islamabad. The government offered a place to camp outside Islamabad near Peshawar Mor, but so far, PTI has not accepted the offer.
Finding the roads blocked, the planners made a slight change in their strategy and the protestors were directed to go slow and exhaust the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). They hope that soon the Government will throw in its towel and clear the way for PTI to take over the reins of power.
PTI is utilizing all possible resources to dethrone the Government in power and capture power. As a policy, it looks for soft areas and exploits each & every opportunity to achieve its objective. Protests during the SCO Summit and the current visit of the President of Belarus are cases in point.
During its rule, PTI’s focus was on jailing all the political opponents, and after losing power in April 2022, it has been resorting to politics of hate and violence. It refuses to realize that violent measures to seize power are counterproductive and totally against the national interests.
Instead of cooperating with the ruling Government to stabilize the sinking economy, PTI has been constantly working on an agenda to topple the ruling regime.
Instead of cooperating with the Government to put up a united front to defeat the nefarious designs of external enemies, PTI views the real enemies as friends, and the political opponents as well as the military establishment as enemies.
PTI leadership is oblivious to the grave internal and external threats, and their only concern is to grab power by hook or crook.
PTI is making hue and cry over the alleged stolen mandate but does not understand that charges of rigging in elections, stolen mandates, and corruption are old recurring phenomena since the birth of Pakistan, and nothing new and exceptional happened on February 8. Even the elections in 2018 were rigged, and the victory of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML N) in Punjab was callously snatched.
If the leaders of PML N and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) are thieves and robbers of its mandate, PTI’s basket is full of these very sins. Its opponents call PTI a terrorist group and not a political party. For two and half years its behavior and conduct have been similar to the banned groups like Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
Both sides call each other black, but the party leaders and workers eulogize their political parties and lambast the other. Both lack a sense of political maturity and tolerance, but PTI leadership is much more rigid and fixated.
It wants to negotiate with the military establishment only, forgetting that Imran Khan has been consistently demeaning the Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) leadership from April 2022 onwards.
PTI not only callously breaks the rule of law, democratic norms, and ethics, it desperately seeks external support. It would be happy if the Western forces or Indian military invaded Pakistan, or if Pakistan defaults and becomes bankrupt.
This party is the only one in Pakistan that hasn’t raised its voice for the cause of oppressed Kashmiris and Palestinians. It has so far not censured Kabul for abetting cross-border terrorism into Pakistan, or even the TTP which has bloodied KP.
Imran Khan was the only PM in Pakistan who was completely beholden to his wife Bushra, and he took dictations from her in all state matters. Bushra Bibi still enjoys complete sway over him and this untimely call was given at her behest.
PTI is playing the ethnic card and has galvanized the Pashtuns to invade the capital city and Punjab.
KP Government resources were used by Chief Minister Gandapur last time, and again on November 24 to storm Islamabad.
PTI has played a big role in lowering the image of Pakistan in the eyes of the world community, in creating a wedge between the Army and the people, and in indoctrinating segments of serving and retired armed forces persons. To demonize the Pak Army, Imran Khan declared Sheikh Mujib a hero. In the past, the Awami League and Mutahida Qomi Movement (MQM) had used ethnic cards to promote hatred and had sought external help.
The liberated electronic media, and now social media, have not only ruptured the social fabric of society, but have also fanned hatred, extremism, emotionalism, divisions, and terrorism. These tools are extensively used by PTI’s network and absconding journalists to glamorize Imran Khan and his party and to badmouth the opponents.
The objective of ongoing protests was to cancel the three-day visit of the President of Belarus, to force the Government to accept its four demands, to do politics over dead bodies, to internationalize PTI’s case, to impede development works, and to get National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
The political unrest has given an opportunity of life to hostile intelligence agencies to fish in troubled waters maximize the use of terrorists against sensitive targets, and trigger a civil war.
The security situation in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, and Sudan was not as bad as in Pakistan today when they were destroyed through invasions and covert operations.
Pakistan is gripped in multiple crises and has too many external and internal enemies. All have ganged up to derail Pakistan. The worst part of the story is that the educated people have been mesmerized by the cult leader, and have adopted the cult culture. They see things from their own myopic periscope only, which doesn’t show any signs of reason and logic. They can only see Imran Khan as a Saint, a Messiah, and a demigod.
With this sort of situation in existence, when we cannot differentiate between good and bad, between black and white, I reckon, we as a nation seem to have lost our senses because we have become our worst enemies. We are merrily cutting the tree upon which we are perched.
There is no need for India or anyone else to spend money on creating internal problems for Pakistan, since this job has been taken over by a political party the media, and the so-called intellectuals and so-called saner elements.
