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Zahid Rabbani
The PTI Long March for real freedom has resumed, along with a pleasant news that Imran Khan has called on his party workers to end their road blockades with immediate effect.
Pakistan’s overcast political sky is showing signs of whirlwinds, overwhelming the state and society simultaneously. Consequently, political instability is growing, dividing society. The outcome of this instability is affecting the credibility of the state’s institutions.
Politics should be an institution through which political players can solve their problems via give and take. Due to a disturbing political climate in the country, the leaders need to tone down political rhetoric and should avoid bringing the state and society to the point of no return.
Political leaders need to understand that the country’s recent political turmoil has caused Pakistan to lose ground in terms of growth and repute thanks to a constant game of musical chairs being played by the country’s political parties who are giving their dear homeland a nasty name worldwide.
Political polarization may make the scenario violent. For the sake of the country’s future, our politicians need to stop stirring distaste against rival political parties, which makes the public even less open-minded than they are and gives the outside world more chances to present the country in an undesirable light than it already does. As a replacement for it, they need to find the middle ground.
The conflict between the PTI and the PDM government should not go from jittery to completely unreceptive. A few would have expected Imran Khan to budge an inch particularly when the public opinion is apparently in his favor. Yet the PTI chief is reevaluating some of his stances in his fight with the government.
Reportedly, Imran Khan has offered a fresh take on the issue of appointing a new chief of army. After repeatedly demanding that the appointment of a new chief be made in consultation with him or his party, he while speaking to a group of journalists at his Zaman Park residence said that he does not see a problem if Shehbaz Sharif’s government appoints the next army chief.
He even looked all right with the indication of the appointment made without any feedback from his party. He made a startling statement that they can appoint whomsoever they want.
Earlier, in several public meetings and remarks made over the course of the past several months, Imran Khan had said that the government is unfit to make the appointment to the top military slot.
Imran Khan had severely condemned the government after the unsuccessful assassination attempt on him. Surprisingly, he made a sudden departure from that statement and avoided sharing his thoughts about the FIR finally filed by the Punjab Police, which did not name any of the three people he had originally nominated. Instead, he said that his lawyers would be providing his stance on the matter.
Things seem to be moving in the right direction now. In politics, one should not burn all boats but should have the flexibility to move back and forth with political opponents.
When Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formally wrote to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to form a judicial commission to probe the attempted assassination, Imran Khan expressed his openness to that proposal to involve the Supreme Court.
By endorsing the Supreme Court probe panel suggested by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the PTI chief has just helped cool the increasingly hot political environment in the country.
Imran Khan says he will join the Long March in Rawalpindi to head to Islamabad. Let us hope the resumed Long March will remain peaceful, as people are desperate enough to see its happy end.
