Governor’s rule has been imposed. There are two fundamental points that need to be understood.

The first is that governor’s rule and an emergency are not such evils that one must adopt an apologetic attitude towards them. If circumstances demand it, an emergency and governor’s rule are entirely legitimate and constitutional measures.

The second point to understand is that we were facing precisely the circumstances and events considered necessary to justify governor’s rule. Beyond this, perhaps no other option remained.

If we have had to witness these days, it is because of the PTI’s recklessness, its provocative attitude, its lack of seriousness and responsibility, and its continuous follies.

Unfortunately, PTI has never been able to behave like a normal political party. It turned democracy into the tyranny of the majority, fascism and a cult.

Political parties find a way out of a dead end. PTI had walked itself into one.

Politics is about taking others along. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf denied the very existence of everyone except itself. It believed that it alone represented the ultimate truth. Everyone else was Raja Dahir.

Any thief or crook in the world who joined its party would become pious, pure, clean and a saintly man of God. But even an honourable person who belonged to any camp other than theirs would be branded a thief, a crook or a thug.

Politics is about coexistence. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf tried to establish its fascism by trampling over everyone else.

It tried to set up its own fielding in the judiciary and demanded the same submission from other institutions: they were to remain obedient to Imran Khan and serve him.

In other words, no individual or institution was, or is, safe unless it spends its time facilitating Imran Khan or acting as his admirer. Khan Sahib’s dictum was that only animals were neutral. To live in this country, one was apparently required to be an Imran Khan tiger. There was no room for anything else.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf tried to exploit every weakness of the state and twist its arm. When the economy ran into trouble, the party sometimes wrote to overseas Pakistanis, asking them not to send money to Pakistan. At other times, it approached the IMF, asking it not to deal with Pakistan. Whenever an important foreign dignitary was about to visit the country, its people would sit on the streets and disrupt the visit. Whenever an important appointment was due to be made, they would take to the streets, flex their political muscle, paralyse normal life and try to force their demands on the system.

It tried to set........

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