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akistani Prime Minister Imran unemployment. The major investors
Khan — the cricketer-turned among the people of Pakistan too have
politician and the civilian face of the es- been reluctant to invest in their home-
tablishment, a word used for the army land. Amidst this hard economic situa-
and its intelligence wing, the Inter servic- tion, the slogan in his election campaign
es Intelligence (ISI) — appears to be grop- slogan was “Naya (new) Pakistan”, but he
ing in the dark to tackle the formidable is nowhere close to building a modern
political-economic crisis the country is state. With his inability to move towards
facing. In his bid to assert himself even modernizing his country, he is now
after completing 15 months in the cov- seeking religious slogans for retaining
eted office, he betrays the aggressiveness power to divert attention of the common
of a cricket captain, He had represented people suffering under unprecedented
a fresh approach, when in 1996, he had price rise. His focus has now shifted
launched Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pa- from Naya Pakistan to convert Paki-
kistan movement for justice), but these stan as an Islamic state on the pattern
decades of experience in the public life of Medina, as Hindus dream of a Ram
Few takers of Imran

Khan’s dream state

does not reflect the much-needed matu- The Pakistan prime minister Narendra Modi government.
rity of a senior politician. Apart from the concept of a dream
His frequent outbursts against his appears to be groping in the Median state, Khan supporters among
political rivals, especially the three-time dark to tackle the formidable the Muslim radical intellectuals have
prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, reflect his aggressively projected Pakistan’s role in
state of mind. A confused person, who political-economic crisis faced by implementing ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’, an Is-
claims to be a democratically elected the country, reports gopal misra lamic concept that is given in the Hadith.
leader of the 220 million people, but Ghazwa means barbaric war. to conquer
depends upon the might of the country’s India.
armed forces. He is just like a babe in the Rajya, where common man is the centre After this war, all Idol worshipers will
wilderness of the murky complex. of the governance. be murdered by the winning Islamic
Khan blessed by the establishment In this Islamic concept of state, each army. However, most of the Islamic
assumed the coveted office of the prime citizen, including non-Muslims, had scholars, including Jamiat Ulema-e-
minister on August 18, 2018, but it ap- equal rights, but in his government, Hind, have called that it is misinterpre-
pears his government is under seize of apart from Hindus and Sikhs, the Sindis, tation of the religious text.
its own rhetoric. Taha Siddiqui, a France- Mohajirs (the people of India migrated to In spite of a friendly or controlled
based Pakistani journalist, has exposed Sind) and people of Balochistan are seek- media, the communalization of politics
the Khan regime’s inadequacy to tackle ing asylum in different countries. Infuri- in the country has few takers. Senior
basic issues being faced by the country. ated by the abrogation of special status writers and journalists like Hasan Nissar
He was expecting flow of investments, to Jammu and Kashmir under the Indian and Najam Sethi have already expressed
especially from the international donors, Constitution, the Islamic parties, which their doubts on the communal rhetoric.
the Chinese, World Bank, and the non- mostly get support from the establish- Khan is yet to realize that with the exit
resident Pakistani. His frequent visits to ment have unleashed the concept of the of the majority Muslim population of
Beijing could not yield any substantial two-nation theory, which led to the par- East Bengal, now Bangladesh, the two-
funds. tition of India in 1947. The change in the nation theory is already dead and buried
The Chinese investment in the OBOR constitutional status of Kashmir is being nearly half-a-century ago in 1971. It has
(one belt one road) has considerably re- projected as an anti-Muslim measure. become irrelevant with growing aliena-
duced, the international donors have However, India’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, tion of the people of Sind, Balochistan,
forced the government to impose fresh the most respected of the Muslim organ- and the people migrated from India,
taxes on the people facing massive izations has endorsed the decision of the the Mohajirs.

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