“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” or this proverb’s French counterpart “L’enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs” (hell is full of good wishes and desires) are aphorisms quite sententious in their meanings. Problem with adages like these is that they turn into clichés and lose their good meanings along with their spirit, the good thing is, the fact they describe never dies away and keeps hovering above.
Now the matter of good intentions comes in when we look at the current state of affairs of electioneering in Pakistan. This time around a seller of ‘Change’ (another clichéd term) is on the scene. Why to describe him in third person, let’s call him Imran Khan. Now I don’t doubt Mr. Khan’s apparent (stress) intentions and, gosh, more I have belief on his supporters’ intentions. Mr. Khan and his clan’s aspirations for the country are admirable in the view of non-performance of last five years of working democracy. This is a gentleman’s general view of the situation and as he sees or presents it on the media, or to the public.
Is the performance of last term really the reason for Mr. Khan’s rise on the scene? If Yes then why the worst performing Federal Government of PPP is missing from his target menu, along with the sindh and Balochistan governments. KPK government was ideal so Mr. Khan shies away from naming it, too.
That means there’s more, than meets the eyes. I still have no doubts about Khan’s supporters’ intentions, only have complaint against their squint eyes and grimaced faces. But what matters most ‘is’ Mr. Khan’s own intentions. Does he think that mentioning Zardari once or twice in his speeches is good enough to show his balanced mental approach? Is this his sense of justice he promises to bring to our land? Now this is too easy for a nerd to get.
So situation seems to go little deeper. One’s point of interest kindles at the thought that what new he has brought about that such a sudden burst of popularity embraced him. What is new? The idea of Pakistan he is clamouring around is cent percent same as he did 17 years ago. The governments then had all the ills, performance would beg asylum from (per him). Why Khan’s bitnoben didn’t sell then? Because it didn’t carry much weight, was stuffed with all good words, yet sounded undeliverable by him, evinced lot of personal ambition etc (The list is too long)
So much for Imran Khan’s intentions, one must focus on the fact that most of us don’t even realize what waiting for us in case Imran’s party’s wins (and this whole thesis is based on the hypothesis of Imran Khan’s victory in elections). Personally I feel unsafe in Imran’s Naya Pakistan as a citizen, and fact is all the people believing in personal freedom, freedom of expression, liberty to exude individual creativity and sense of development etc would all become vulnerable. It’s not because of Imran’s desire and teaching of his followers to use Bat, his election symbol, as a weapon against his opponents, by successfully wrapping it in a cricket vernacular, but for the forces who were receding due to infamous dictator’s deeds, upsurge of activist media, a vibrant judiciary and an out coming civil society, hasn’t surrendered yet. Not that I am pointing out to spy agencies only, but to a mentality, a way of thinking, which does not
believe in any good values. They are unable to digest all these good values. All these evil forces and symbols of status-quo were suffocating during the last days of dictator and re-beginning of democracy right afterwards. They were on a look out for a way to survival, PPP’s longstanding image of being anti-status-quo and PMLN’s hard won anti-establishment and rebel to status-quo image had quashed them into hideouts. No longer did they find out that PPP has lost its liberal, anti-status-quo socle, its popular positions compromised and the party’s ideology turned into a mumbo-jumbo only to kowtow to its co-chairperson’s ambitions (has the word ‘ambitions’ repeated itself?). Here the forces to be, found some respite, seemingly, after lot of deliberations and PPP’s lack of capability and its interest thereof only in money matters, (and some other ambitions against Punjab and becoming the Robin Hood for other provinces) relished the idea of
spanking the erstwhile political enemies, a dream come true for many. So it was decided that pace of over-zealous Punjab chief be paced down, load-shedding be made weapon which would create all sorts of damages to the most developed and developing province, as soon as the damaged is done, unleash a vocal leader with some glamour and attraction, and who is only Vocal.
After little dusting, the needed character was found from holy repository of (un)usable leaders. Why to talk in third person, let’s call him Imran Khan. Now the situation is, the new found savior is found squalling hither and thither fullfilling holy agendas. Behind all his tall claims hides the big plan of making this nation hostage to suffocating restrictions, a controlled, very controlled democratic set-up. Majority thinks, Khan has some bone to pick with Nawaz Sharif and his party, when you go deep you don’t find anything concrete, he can really put up against Nawaz. So Nawaz Sharif and his party is being used as a Red Herring, not for Nawaz and his party is the only reliable and worthy voice against all the devilish forces, but agenda is against the common man of Pakistan. Who would only be left to feel disappointed over his choice, on the pretext of Performance yet another time. And by the time unripe minds of today who are taking politics as a
video game and Imran Khan as their Mario or Gordon Freeman and election campaign and votes as their controls, would grow up and consider it as a wrong of their young hood. They’d again be blaming older generations, then in a different context.
Now let that be who has what intentions and playing what games, it’s a sorry state of affairs that no political party is able to understand the gravity of situation. PMLN's reaction to rising threat is only reactionary and their invalid media cell has failed to expose Khan and his sponsors, behind his cosmetically done good agenda badly. Even more sorry state of affairs is that of PPP, which is in total control of the Greed orientation of its leader, its sympathizers still pin hopes to it, just being loyal to their liberal ideology.
Sadly PMLN, PPP (if PPP really not abetters with IK Network), Media (which is openly siding with Imran Khan) and the erudite classes of our society have failed to comprehend the challenge lying ahead in form of Imran Khan and his sponsors and taking the coming elections in a stride leave alone spreading the awareness about it.
So if PMLN or PPP are incapable or unwilling to expose khan and his sponsors’ agenda, should the rest of Pakistanis let their and their country’s future go in abyss? and back-track on all the efforts and successes gained against these forces so far? and compromise our freedoms, our moderate disposition to a Modern Clad Taliban styled mentality? say good-bye to Progressiveness and developmen? and come out saying to the world, here we are new Afghanistan and then keep rotting in this hell for 4-5 more generations?? Just watching TV analyses, burning from inside, cursing Khan on Social Media and private gatherings is a recipe to disaster, a disaster whose magnitude hardly anybody seems to be able to realize and gauge. If saner voices sit back and see the coming elections with that subtle interest in politics and silhouetting the changing face of la politique with deep interest and stopped short of Exposing Khan and his hidden Nefarious designs then that
would be a wrong way to tread and would prove to be a Road to Hell, paved with all good intentions.
Now the matter of good intentions comes in when we look at the current state of affairs of electioneering in Pakistan. This time around a seller of ‘Change’ (another clichéd term) is on the scene. Why to describe him in third person, let’s call him Imran Khan. Now I don’t doubt Mr. Khan’s apparent (stress) intentions and, gosh, more I have belief on his supporters’ intentions. Mr. Khan and his clan’s aspirations for the country are admirable in the view of non-performance of last five years of working democracy. This is a gentleman’s general view of the situation and as he sees or presents it on the media, or to the public.
Is the performance of last term really the reason for Mr. Khan’s rise on the scene? If Yes then why the worst performing Federal Government of PPP is missing from his target menu, along with the sindh and Balochistan governments. KPK government was ideal so Mr. Khan shies away from naming it, too.
That means there’s more, than meets the eyes. I still have no doubts about Khan’s supporters’ intentions, only have complaint against their squint eyes and grimaced faces. But what matters most ‘is’ Mr. Khan’s own intentions. Does he think that mentioning Zardari once or twice in his speeches is good enough to show his balanced mental approach? Is this his sense of justice he promises to bring to our land? Now this is too easy for a nerd to get.
So situation seems to go little deeper. One’s point of interest kindles at the thought that what new he has brought about that such a sudden burst of popularity embraced him. What is new? The idea of Pakistan he is clamouring around is cent percent same as he did 17 years ago. The governments then had all the ills, performance would beg asylum from (per him). Why Khan’s bitnoben didn’t sell then? Because it didn’t carry much weight, was stuffed with all good words, yet sounded undeliverable by him, evinced lot of personal ambition etc (The list is too long)
So much for Imran Khan’s intentions, one must focus on the fact that most of us don’t even realize what waiting for us in case Imran’s party’s wins (and this whole thesis is based on the hypothesis of Imran Khan’s victory in elections). Personally I feel unsafe in Imran’s Naya Pakistan as a citizen, and fact is all the people believing in personal freedom, freedom of expression, liberty to exude individual creativity and sense of development etc would all become vulnerable. It’s not because of Imran’s desire and teaching of his followers to use Bat, his election symbol, as a weapon against his opponents, by successfully wrapping it in a cricket vernacular, but for the forces who were receding due to infamous dictator’s deeds, upsurge of activist media, a vibrant judiciary and an out coming civil society, hasn’t surrendered yet. Not that I am pointing out to spy agencies only, but to a mentality, a way of thinking, which does not
believe in any good values. They are unable to digest all these good values. All these evil forces and symbols of status-quo were suffocating during the last days of dictator and re-beginning of democracy right afterwards. They were on a look out for a way to survival, PPP’s longstanding image of being anti-status-quo and PMLN’s hard won anti-establishment and rebel to status-quo image had quashed them into hideouts. No longer did they find out that PPP has lost its liberal, anti-status-quo socle, its popular positions compromised and the party’s ideology turned into a mumbo-jumbo only to kowtow to its co-chairperson’s ambitions (has the word ‘ambitions’ repeated itself?). Here the forces to be, found some respite, seemingly, after lot of deliberations and PPP’s lack of capability and its interest thereof only in money matters, (and some other ambitions against Punjab and becoming the Robin Hood for other provinces) relished the idea of
spanking the erstwhile political enemies, a dream come true for many. So it was decided that pace of over-zealous Punjab chief be paced down, load-shedding be made weapon which would create all sorts of damages to the most developed and developing province, as soon as the damaged is done, unleash a vocal leader with some glamour and attraction, and who is only Vocal.
After little dusting, the needed character was found from holy repository of (un)usable leaders. Why to talk in third person, let’s call him Imran Khan. Now the situation is, the new found savior is found squalling hither and thither fullfilling holy agendas. Behind all his tall claims hides the big plan of making this nation hostage to suffocating restrictions, a controlled, very controlled democratic set-up. Majority thinks, Khan has some bone to pick with Nawaz Sharif and his party, when you go deep you don’t find anything concrete, he can really put up against Nawaz. So Nawaz Sharif and his party is being used as a Red Herring, not for Nawaz and his party is the only reliable and worthy voice against all the devilish forces, but agenda is against the common man of Pakistan. Who would only be left to feel disappointed over his choice, on the pretext of Performance yet another time. And by the time unripe minds of today who are taking politics as a
video game and Imran Khan as their Mario or Gordon Freeman and election campaign and votes as their controls, would grow up and consider it as a wrong of their young hood. They’d again be blaming older generations, then in a different context.
Now let that be who has what intentions and playing what games, it’s a sorry state of affairs that no political party is able to understand the gravity of situation. PMLN's reaction to rising threat is only reactionary and their invalid media cell has failed to expose Khan and his sponsors, behind his cosmetically done good agenda badly. Even more sorry state of affairs is that of PPP, which is in total control of the Greed orientation of its leader, its sympathizers still pin hopes to it, just being loyal to their liberal ideology.
Sadly PMLN, PPP (if PPP really not abetters with IK Network), Media (which is openly siding with Imran Khan) and the erudite classes of our society have failed to comprehend the challenge lying ahead in form of Imran Khan and his sponsors and taking the coming elections in a stride leave alone spreading the awareness about it.
So if PMLN or PPP are incapable or unwilling to expose khan and his sponsors’ agenda, should the rest of Pakistanis let their and their country’s future go in abyss? and back-track on all the efforts and successes gained against these forces so far? and compromise our freedoms, our moderate disposition to a Modern Clad Taliban styled mentality? say good-bye to Progressiveness and developmen? and come out saying to the world, here we are new Afghanistan and then keep rotting in this hell for 4-5 more generations?? Just watching TV analyses, burning from inside, cursing Khan on Social Media and private gatherings is a recipe to disaster, a disaster whose magnitude hardly anybody seems to be able to realize and gauge. If saner voices sit back and see the coming elections with that subtle interest in politics and silhouetting the changing face of la politique with deep interest and stopped short of Exposing Khan and his hidden Nefarious designs then that
would be a wrong way to tread and would prove to be a Road to Hell, paved with all good intentions.
