The shameful and unprecedented political drama that has been witnessed in Pakistan in the last few days, do probably have no annals in the world history. A supposedly democratic country Pakistan has always been dependent on two As, Army and Allah, to run any government since its incepetion in 1947. However, with Imran Khan taking the centre stage of Pakistani politics, a spectre of complete uncertainity took over the country and nobody inside or beyond, seemed to have a fair idea about what was going to happen next.
The prelude to the story begun a few days back. With political circles agog with rumours of Imran Khan-led Pakistan Terek-i-Insaaf (PTI) party losing its legislative majority and government about to fall, the political scene in the ocuntry suddently became very intense. Imran Khan made a very unexpected public announcement on television that if he is forced to resign, he will become more dangerous and take to streets. Then some unverfied media reports proclaimed that he has asked some time from the arbiter of poitical disputes in the country, the patrons in Rawalpindi, the Army to let him complete the Organisation of Islmaic Countries (OIC) conference in Islamabad and then he will resign.
Meanwhile the no-confidence motion was submitted in the National Assembly and the Speaker, in a highly partisan ruling made sure that the legislative process gets delayed considerably while ruling PTI and its leaders get ample time to marshal resources and bring back dissdents...
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