Yesterday, before Imran Khan’s speech to the Nation, I published an article, “A Move: Imran Khan Can Checkmate.” The theme was, Imran Khan (IK) in an un-ending cycle could replace his party’s leadership arrested by the establishment with youth and the people will vote them in. This article was in line with IK not accepting defeat and in cricket’s terminology, he would play to the last ball to win.
IK’s address to nation brings home a thought that Khan is closer to playing his last ball. IK informed the nation that he is making a committee and if the establishment convinces the committee on two questions that he would step aside from politics. Meaning, IK would comply with Bajwa’s “minus Imran Khan” formula.
Morality is a key metric in convincing the committee Pakistan will be better off.
The establishment is to convince the negotiation committee on two issues; 1) Will the country run better without IK in the run? 2) Rather than sooner, the benefit to Pakistan to hold elections in October 2023, and IK would leave Pakistani politics.
Khan is well aware that his removal is not a Pakistani internal affair. Khan mentioned in his address that the Human Rights organizations are silent, is reasoning enough Khan is not the Western world’s desired choice. There is practically silence in the West on the tyranny of the fascist regime in Pakistan. The White House spoke person Karine Jean-Pierre made a weak statement to the effect that the United States is aware of the situation in Pakistan and the U.S. values the rule of law.
Is IK planning for a way out and handing over the PTI party to Mahmood Shah Qureshi and Asad Umer, both have not left IK PTI party? Certainly, there is some wisdom in taking this path. I am imagining the committee will get convinced. Taking on the burden and responsibility of buying into the regime’s strategic direction for the nation. History will weigh in on taking on such a responsibility.
The convincing strategic direction is one likely to consider economic and foreign policy. Pakistan will continue as before with army’s main staple diet corruption. Polity to follow suit and remain subservient to the army.
Alternatively, is this Khan’s strategic move? Knowing the committee could not be possibly convinced on the merits. If morality is part of the criteria, certainly it is not attainable with current regime and structure in place. Knowing Khan is a bad judge of character, can the committee deceive IK? All possibilities are tenable in Pakistan.
Another criterion, whose wisdom to decide which bipolar camp for Pakistan to land in? China or the Western bloc. Clearly, the United States cannot allow Pakistan to be neutral. Geographically Pakistan cannot benefit from the United States if the geography of the United States is a handicap in the Eurasia geopolitics.
Dr. Paul Krugman thesis that won him Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences would guide Pakistan to lean on and benefit from the new and rising bipolar camp to benefit from trade. Islamic teachings tend to guide to take care of neighbors.
From the tyranny unfolding, the Western powers may not be in a shock because Pakistan has behaved exactly as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) churned model would have precited. The Punjabi clique is historically deplorable and irredeemable is now at the helm of the regime running an economic and moral havoc with the country. The country is soon to default. Women are stripped naked. Children beaten. Extrajudicial killings and arbitrary third-degree torture is rampant.
The people of the decent world are shocked as they watch Pakistan. A country knowledgeable enough, for her survival to have placed nuclear deterrence against the hyper-nationalist India; yet army’s power and treachery in the making has spilled the country from the verge of megalomania into a cavity of moral depravity not seen in the world as far as I am concerned has left us to rethink the ambit of survival. The Punjabi clique are Muslims is a new low in Islam.
The remainder of this article speaks to morality. Without IK, Pakistan cannot rebuild her morality. Morality is a key to a nation’s rise. I became aware of the importance of the mechanism necessary for morality in shaping a country at the age of forty. It was imperative for me to take action to ensure I took one small step for the betterment of my children in my adopted country—the United States.
To benefit my children, or our children or my country, it took me eleven years to write my book, MANIPULATION OF THE MIND: Our Children and Our Policy at Peril. This book has a hidden thought—America losing her morality.
To understand morality in America, or understanding Khan vis-à-vis morality in Pakistan, a small lesson in understanding civilization classification is necessary. Professor Quigley has classified civilizations into Class-A and Class-B. The Western civilizations are of Class-A classification. It caters to individuality. Whereas, Class-B civilizations nurture kinship plus local (or community.) China from 450 AD to present and Pashtun ethnicity are Class-B civilization.
In the United States, Class-A civilization is put in place to destroy the family nucleus. Hence, morality comes into the fold. It was planned to destroy the American way of life—my book documents it with air-tight research. Class-A civilization or individualism or globalism or the American Civil War are synonymous. By now you should have gathered why LGBT etc., is a key promoted value in America—individualism to reach to globalization.
In weeks to come, in my crusade I aim to meet Republican congressional representatives to focus on morality in the upcoming U.S. elections. Trump has already attacked the establishment, a theme in my book. behind the means and ways placed in controlling America not in the interest of the people. All Trump needs to do is to bring moral values back into his campaign and the United States. Elections can be sealed and China contained!
In China, rejuvenating moral value is a strategic objective. It is important to note, “In January, 2011, a 9.5 metre bronze statue of the Chinese sage Confucius was unveiled at the north gate of the newly renovated National Museum, just off Tiananmen Square,…” Confucius is important for China to give the nation a leap, a moral leap that is, in leaving behind the United States.
Khan would have come across as ‘more’ enlightened to the Western world if he had explained Pakistan through the concepts placed in the Western textbooks. Like, orienting Pakistan for progress through establishing moral values and not by more explicit terms Rayasat-e Madina. Threat is eliminated in the corporate world. Other than a few individuals in their field of expertise, Khan’s team was ill-equipped ethically and did not intellectually complement the skills necessary for addressing world affairs to guide Khan.
Will IK shortchange the country if morality is not a key metric in the committee’s convincing criteria as to stay or leave politics? Will IK become a disappointment should he exit politics? All of us knowing well the Joint Criminal Enterprise (the Punjabi clique) cannot bring moral values to Pakistan.
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.