Saeed Afridi’s tweet is talk of the pundits. If we assume that the tweet is credible, what the analysts have missed is that Asim Munir “the deceiver” himself could have ordered the Military Intelligence (MI) report. That is, should the table turn in the future would take Asim off the hook by implicating other agencies in the future for the May 09, 2023 events. This is, when PTI protestors and implants were given access to military premises.
Pakistan Army is finished. Youth to become the contenders as office bearers.
The army has plotted to the arrests of PTI leaders. They are defecting the PTI party in droves. Shereen Mazari, a former PTI human rights Minister, while in jail succumbed to pressures. Ms. Mazari was threatened her daughter will be stripped naked. –Social media.
The army has imprisoned up to tertiary leadership of PTI to portray PTI as a hollow party without leadership. I think it is a temporary setback for Khan.
Imran Khan (IK) is like Elan Musk to his followers. IK is a brand name. It sells. Khan can pull names out of his hat and his party will come alive. Think for a minute, projecting those names to the world. Khan could have majority young mature women as his majority cabinet members. The world will take notice of the newly selected members taken from the sixty-percent youth.
The army with the help of Punjab police can arrest the new eligible lot to run for offices and try to make them defect from PTI. Surely, Khan will have their replacement with a newer young blood. This cycle can continue. Let the world see those behind the tyranny.
The youth movement will begin. Jail the newly selected youth for the offices and they will not fudge. The criteria for selection is youth from a marginalized and oppressed community; divine driven; those that have experienced injustice or witnessed injustices; a strong desire for accountability and justice. These factors will motivate them to take risks to seek redress.
Idealism in the youth will not make them back off to run for the office when faced with heavy-handed tactics of the regime. The youth has nothing to lose. Their risk levels are incalculable. Find an eligible twenty-five years old belonging to a marginalized and oppressed community—they are risk driven. Find a religious young man, he is risk driven. From the ashes of tyranny stars will rise to give the world a newer democracy.
Pakistan is going through a pre-newer democracy phase. Unfortunately it is tyranny and torture. In torture or a third-degree torture, historic societal norms are at play. In some cultures, it is engrained in the cultural mind an accepted punishment to maintain social control and enforce self-authoritarianism. Pashtun culture is rebellious to authoritarianism. The essential thought is, selecting youth with cultural norms is taking measures to cure cultural barbarism as a norm when exercising social control and authoritarianism.
Tyranny at home means Khan’s struggle against dictatorship (fascist regime) will make use of publicizing petitions and awareness campaigns initiatives to educate the international community. The time tested Khan is faced with a new challenging situation.
It would make no difference if Khan is eliminated from politics with any means, short of taking his life. Khan can direct politics and direction from his bedroom. Khan is bigger than life. Assassinating Khan will be the establishment’s Waterloo. Though taking Khan’s life is very likely because Asim Munir thinks he can control the people.
IK is equal to the State. It is the statesmen’s responsibility to ensure the survival of the State. IK is a moderate tempered leader and should do well by not escalating the risk. IK enjoys the support of a self-mobilized social media. Though IK has not effectively cultivated the support of lobby and engaging international bodies to seek intervention.
Due to torture and the establishment’s killings of up to forty PTI workers on May 09-10, 2023 protest. Majority of the protestors were shot in the head. Khan has decided against protests and may not allow civil disobedience, such as boycotts to disrupt the normal functioning of the regime.
Nonetheless, Khan has developed and conditioned the new generation. I see them with a developed Gharat once laughed at in Pakistan. The anchor Raoof Klasara on television once laughed at Pashtuns by telling a story—a Pashtun killed a man from Gharat he exhibited for a day, but then the same Pashtun said now he is in jail living the remainder of his life as a bagharat (without gharat.) Klasara is a soulless and a person of void.
Void—Meaning downgrading a person to a state as the logic warrants. For instance, in a cultural stance, if a Pashtun had one bullet of fine quality—usually expensive; he would not use it on Klasara, for the bullet is too expensive and prestigious to waist it on his kind. For Klasara, either he misunderstood the core value of a Pashtun or knowing he lacked qualities competing with a Pashtun’s gharat; a necessary guarantee for existence (or existence of the State.) This was Klasara’s way of elevating his person into existence.
If the Joint Criminal Enterprise, The Punjab Clique if not stopped today, the entire KPK province will face army operations. I am eager to see what name will they give—Rah-e what? Many in Pakistan believes Pakistan Army is their army. Think again. It is a delusion. Asim Munir made the men in Sialkot Garrison chant PTI Murdabad. It is an alarming and irreconcilable inflection point.
Lt. Gen. Tariq Khan on Haider Mehdi Perspective (May 23, 2023) show has offered peculiar assessment in defense of the army leadership—“Not to question.” Men are not to question leadership. Pakistan Army in bulk has failed the ethnic nation of Pakistan.
The army has risen into treason because they lack the strong sense of duty to country. Do not hold on to hope because the salient causes of lacking duty to country is corruption, self-interest, political interference and coerced into carrying violation of human rights. Pakistan Army is finished—there are no salvageable remnants.
Khan, a widely popular leader is the solution to put the army back into the bottle. New youth franchisee is the answer to as office bearers. Mahmood Shah Qureshi can tag along. He is resisting defection.
Bio: Mian Hameed is the author of his latest book: MANIPULATION OF THE MIND: Our Children and Our Policy at Peril. One of the aspects discussed in the book is to raise the K-12 scholastic level to impact policy. He blogs at mianhameed.com on policy concerns in the South Asia and the United States.