By: Syed Shahzaib Haider
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is repeatedly showing his ample condemnation of the newly formed government which was formed in consequence to the no-confidence motion which thrived to remove him from his chair and accusing the US of toppling his government. The PDM of his tenure in the legislative parliament, jointly submitted the no-trust motion earlier this month, seeking Khan’s ouster for allegedly mismanaging Pakistan’s economic and foreign policies. The 69-year-old former cricket said he would stand up to foreign intervention in Pakistani politics, rejecting the misrule charges by his opponents. After getting out of the house khan named the current government as “Imported government” and he is emerging stronger in his narrative. I will not let this conspiracy succeed at any cost,” Khan said in his address. Demanded general election as the only way out to this whole chaos.
PML-N Government after taking control swiftly rejected Khan’s allegations as baseless and said it’s just his frustration of defeat, with this almost every unbiased analyst and anchors of the top television channels and newspapers agreed with what the current government is saying especially after the clear statement of DG-ISPR by saying that we found no word as conspiracy against the former government in the document which former prime minister with complete sureness confirmed as a letter to reveal the conspiracy against his government. Washington also dismissed the charges by saying clearly that we are never against the law of the land of Pakistan and we never will be instead we respect the constitution of the country and will always stand by it. “When it comes to these allegations, there is no truth to them,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters during a regular briefing.
“We are closely following developments in Pakistan. We respect [and] we support Pakistan’s constitutional process and the rule of law,” Price added.
“The national security committee expressed grave concern at the communication, terming the language used by the foreign official as undiplomatic”. Analysts say the development is likely to strain an already fragile relationship between Pakistan and the U.S.
However, the reality is a little different to what khan was claiming, about two dozens of Khan’s ruling party lawmakers have defected because of their frustration for being a part of an unskilled and few big-headed ministers of khan’s cabinet, and key coalition partners also have abandoned the government and joined the opposition, left him without 172 votes. The majority he needed to survive the no-confidence motion in the 342-member legislative assembly.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the 2018 general election but fell short of receiving a majority, forcing him to form a coalition government with the help of political allies that was the peak of his political career with no allegations on him. But things now are completely changed government now has a complete charge sheet against him and the other party leaders.
So far there is no worthy evidence of any conspiracy behind the no-confidence motion, analysts are of the view that khan is only using it as a shield for his mismanagement of the country’s economy and inflation. As for the last couple of months out of his many addresses to the nation as prime minister, he never expressed his concern on the primary issue of this country like poverty, lawlessness, corruption charges against his ministers, the highest inflation of all times, and not fulfilling the great promises he made before coming into power. Apparently, people from almost every walk of life say that the only thing that got him out of the prime minister’s house is his rigidity of not accepting the incompetence of his government.
The writer is the Director of the editorial board at the ‘The Dayspring’. He can be reached at [email protected]