Nowadays, Imran is everywhere in the news and even our respectable blog members discuss him more than any other on PkPolitics. Imran’s new political Qibla is army GHQ/ISI and he has received green signal from army Establishment to get ready to become next Prime Minister of Pakistan. However, it also depends on Imran and his party PTI to perform well at the (all-important) ballot box in next elections which means to win 20-25 seats so Establishment can help Imran form a post-election alliance with other parties (excluding PML-N). In my opinion, MQM, PML-Q, ANP, Independents and even PPP (with much reduced majority) will be part of next Govt in Pakistan.
Next elections are still 16 months away, it is plenty of time and anything can happen on our political scene. New political players can emerge, new alliances can be formed and even our infamous Establishment can find another boot polisher. In short, everything is possible, any change can occur from today to the days leading to next general elections.
Imran may be getting popularity in some sections of the society, but his electoral (seats-winning) position is still unclear, untested and rather weaker. His party candidates do not have electoral experience of winning seats. Following Questions are relevant and interesting and warrant serious discussion if PTI fails at the ballot box in next election:
What will happen if Imran and PTI do not win adequate number of seats?
What will army generals (who are behind him today) do then?
What if PTI wins 2 seats in next election?
What if army generals change their mind (not to make Imran next PM)?
What will be the position of Imran then? Where will he stand? What will he do?
In my view, all above assumptions are possible and may dent hopes of Imran Khan to become next PM. Army generals are generally fair weather friends and first (even before country) they look after their own interests, therefore interests and political aspirations of Imran will NOT be a concern for them. So if all my assumptions come to fruition, then Imran’s position after next elections will be of DHOBI KA KUTTA GHAR KA NA GHAT KA!!!
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