At present, Pakistan is facing a very serious situation. Rains and floods have caused widespread destruction. The already crisis-ridden economy is under further pressure. Due to the rapidly changing regional and global situation, Pakistan faces the challenge of tackling complex security issues and above all, increasing threats to internal stability. Today's fundamental question for all the quarters concerned about this situation is what is Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan doing in the name of politics?

Imran Khan is giving a message to the world through his propaganda campaign that Pakistan does not have to get aid.  He doesn't realise the sufferings and hardships of the victims. What harm can their propaganda do to the victims and Pakistan? All the leaders and delegations of various countries and international organizations, including the Secretary General of the United Nations, have come to Pakistan to assess the devastation, they say that they have not seen such a disaster in their lives. He also says that pakistan alone cannot deal with such a big disaster.

The whole world should come forward and help Pakistan, but PTI's social media "rasputins" are making fake videos and making them viral, in which the world is convinced not t  Just a few days ago, a sad and condemnable incident took place. The Punjab government of PTI and PML-Q stopped trucks carrying flour for the flood victims of Sindh at the Sindh-Punjab border. 4,500 bags of flour were purchased by provincial disaster management authority (PDMA) Sindh from Punjab and this was known to the Punjab government. Despite this, the flour was not only confiscated but cases were also registered against the truck drivers as the PTI people do not waste any opportunity to play political tricks.

We have suspended all our other political activities on the instructions of our leaders Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari and are doing more relief and rehabilitation work than we can afford. Whether people call us good or bad, we are with them. If they are angry with us, it means that they have a relationship with us and they have a favor on us. We believe that the problems of the people due to this disaster are very high. We are determined that we will not sit until the people are rehabilitated because our relationship is with the people. The focus of our politics is the people. The PTI's modus operandi is that it shoots videos as planned and scripted. Its politics depends only on false propaganda.

The incident that took place in Masjid-e-Nabawi is proof of this. The PTI's propaganda machinery in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa does not see any such thing. This is the PTI's attitude in a national disaster. As far as the economy is concerned, the PTI preferred its politics over the national interest.

Imran Khan has tried his best not to issue a relief package to Pakistan. The world knows that the current economic crisis is created by Imran Khan's government. Imran Khan's government itself signed an agreement with the IMF and itself deviated from it. When his government collapsed, Pakistan had reached the stage of economic bankruptcy. The only way to avoid this situation was to get a relief package from the IMF on the terms on which Imran Khan's government had signed, but imran khan tried to make Pakistan like Sri Lanka through his "macaulay politics". He called the finance ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab through his former finance minister Shaukat Tareen to write a letter to the IMF and tell it that these two provinces would not be able to pay their share of money to repay the loan. The aim was for the IMF to refuse to issue a relief package to Pakistan. Not only this, Imran Khan does not even realize the internal and external threats to Pakistan's security. They are constantly attacking national security institutions and making them controversial. Imran Khan says that the Pakistan Army should not remain neutral and they should bring them to power by political interference. If Army does not do so, it will not only be responsible for the damage done to Pakistan, but it will also have to face the "wrath of the people". They are also threatening the judiciary and declaring in public meetings that they will take action against whichever judge decides against them. He is also making the appointment of the Chief of Army Staff controversial and giving the impression that only the Chief of Army Staff whom he will appoint will be patriotic. Imran Khan's statement has also evoked a strong reaction from the Armed Forces of Pakistan, but he is not shying away from his narrative of making institutions controversial.

There are limits to politics, but Imran Khan and his colleagues are crossing all limits. Why is Imran Khan doing this to the country and the nation in this time of trials and tribulations and what is his agenda? The Supreme Court has also advised him to go to Parliament and play his role as the country cannot afford immediate elections at this time, but he is also criticizing the Supreme Court on this.

Ghalib's poem on Imran Khan is true: They ask, "Who is the Mighty?" Someone tell or shall we tell?

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 26 2022

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