There are video proof and audio leaks of PTI parliamentarians from KP/GB getting armed ppl to Zaman Park. But this woke lot is disturbed that Punjabis living in Zaman Park are incensed that outsiders have occupied their peaceful neighborhoods and made it a war zone.
Zaman Park is not a D-chowk type enclave secluded and cut off from the populace. It’s a damn neighborhood. Imran Khan and his goons are making life for its residents untenable with daily hooliganism, rioting, sloganeering and resulting police shelling, containers, checklists etc.
That place has been under constant shelling for the past week or so. No one would accept this sort of bullshit in their neighborhood. Outsiders camping all over their neighborhood, chopping down trees, rioting, pelting stones, damaging property etc. please put your woke BS aside.
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Many ppl outside of Pakistan, especially non-Pakistanis in the Muslim world, are curious and worried about developments in Pakistan. I was moved to do this thread by some conversations I had with this group of questioners.
I picked a recurring theme with foreigners trying to grapple with what is going on in Pakistan - their window into Pakistani events is mostly through Imran Khan’s political narrative. My objective here is not to enlighten you about the chronology of how & why Pakistan got here.
My objective here is to impress upon the reader an involuntary bias that has developed as a result of having little access to Pakistani politics. It is important to acknowledge this and discount this bias if you want a true assessment of what is going on in Pakistan right now.
I can never know what the situation was like for my family in Bihar just before partition. Just given of what I know about the Muslim League, I don’t think I would have personally bought the partition idea. I am not very impressed by the leadership of that era frankly.
None of them stands out as someone who would’ve struck me as “OK, I am willing to suspend everything for the vision/idea of this person.” Never got the chance to talk to my grandfather for what were his reasons of buying the Muslim League dream.
If I were to guess, I would say that there is a high probability that my grandfather actually believed in the vision. Rather than any other reason like communal tensions he may have been experiencing or he just wanted to migrate to a new place to find new opportunities?
Who are Imran Khan’s political allies today? No one of note. The only one you could pull out is PMLQ who have now merged with PTI. Because an exclusivist brand does NOT tolerate other entities outside of it. Khan is on path to fascism. It’s the state’s job to stop him, period.
If Khan wins, which is a possibility even if remote, then we will see him grow worse and worse in his behavior. We will move to a one-man system that will then collapse after he dies. And because whole system would become contingent on him, state will also collapse.
So it is the damn job of the state to stop him now. It was the deep state that nurtured this beast that is now a threat to it. They can choose to sit quiet and let him have his ways, but the cost then is that he prepared to lose everything when Khan exits the scene.