

The grand show brought in a crowd of more than a hundred thousand by some estimates, while the message remained on point: the tabdeeli is needed, along with whipped cream of anti-America rants.

The October 2011 public rally at Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore was seen as a rebirth of the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Not too long ago, project Imran Khan promised a change from the “corrupt”, “deceitful” Sharifs and Zardaris.

In the name of tabdeeli, this is where we are at, waiting for a change to undo the tabdeeli.Īlso Read: Imran Khan mixing religion and politics won’t turn Pakistan into welfare Madina From political allies sending mixed signals of finding it “hard to support the government” to last week’s joint parliamentary session being postponed because the ruling party lacked numbers to legislate, they were enough to fuel the “change-is-coming” fire. What signals toward the change of hearts? On the surface, it’s the prevalent inflation and three years of sheer incompetence (and whatnot) but in the heart of hearts, it was the prime minister Imran Khan’s delay in appointing the spy chief, which has led to all the speculation. Soon there will be ministers vouching that their king is going nowhere, but that’s the dilemma when you’re holding a King in a deck of Jokers. Some would say the winds of change are blowing, others would be seen giving clichéd: mulk iska mutahmil nahi ho sakta (country can’t afford this change). This time they’re saying that the relationship between Rawalpindi and Bani Gala is growing “complicated”. Like an annual ritual, the whispers are becoming louder. The season of smog is here, so is the season of confessions.
