Why is Imran Khan in the struggle for power repeating the fate of Nawaz Sharif, the Bhutto family and Aghasi, and previous prime ministers?
Author: Mohammad Qadeer Mesbah, regional affairs expert, especially for Sangar
The Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf Party, which was founded in 1996 at the initiative of Pakistan's cricket team captain Mr. Khan, managed to upset the balance between two political parties, the Muslim League and the Awam Party, or People's Party. She has joined the political game for control and division of the power pie in Pakistan. For this reason, his political party can be seen as the third ruling party of Pakistan, which is not yet structured in many countries.
The strength of the political game of the organization is manifested in both demonstrative and practical programs that are well communicated to the audience through slogans and statements. When Khan founded Hizbi Insaf, he declared that his party advocated the creation of a state where the priority is the general welfare, education, health care, employment, freedom of speech, the abolition of taxes, and the elimination of religious discrimination. And he also said that this is the only party that does not accept nepotism. Soon these statements and goals found a place in the minds and hearts of the people of Pakistan and practically turned into a general intellectual awakening, and this passion was proved in the last elections.
Why is Imran Khan in the struggle for power repeating the fate of Nawaz Sharif, the family of Bhutto and Aghasi, previous prime ministers?
In terms of political structure and regional games, Pakistan has been considered one of the most important centers of tension and crisis since independence. But the dispute over the Kashmir region with India, the participation in the case of secession and independence of Bangladesh, the 45-year war in Afghanistan, the issue of forcible treatment of Baloch autonomy, and the plan for systematic discrimination of religious and state minorities were among other factors of internal instability in the period after 1947. left behind. The possibility of Pakistan's collapse was becoming more and more serious every moment, but thanks to good fortune and proximity to the lords, earls, the British kingdom, and American capitalists, Pakistan's statesmen were able to protect themselves using great financial, advisory, intelligence, and military assistance. Pakistan has not been divided, has not collapsed, but on the contrary, has become a major regional player.
Proxy wars with the help of Saudi Arabia's bountiful petrodollars, and technical and professional advice from Western countries recruiting regional extremists and jihadist groups of political Islam have opened up a new playing field for their talents.
Pakistan, itself very young and newly founded, was able to understand the Western approach after 1945, inspired by Western Asian policy. With the end of World War II, when Europe became a digestible fatty food for the Soviet Union and the United States, Pakistan adapted its initiatives with them and declared its involvement in the politics of combating communism, terrorism, and drugs.
To this end, to be loyal to the West, especially the United States, Pakistan helped them bring their expansionist rival Soviet Union into the Afghan field and finish it off. America, with the help of Pakistan, on the one hand, avenged Russia's expansionism in Europe, and on the other hand, avenged the failure of the Vietnamese and North Korean wars. The government of Pakistan entered that period at the behest of England to pretend to be more effective and justified in curbing communism, and to this day they use the half-burnt smoke of a Western product.
Mr. Khan entered the country's political scene with Tehreek-e-Insaf just as the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time, the trend towards one-sidedness in the center of America spoke the first word, and there were no other forces to compete with America's American industry, money, and technology.
In this sense, the government of Pakistan, understanding the current situation in world politics, could be a significant partner for the West only with the American card. From this point of view, it looked for a guarantee of support for the creation of its nuclear facilities in two ways: first, to plant the fear of Indophobia against India, which had nuclear facilities, in the heart of every citizen of Pakistan and second, to convey to the Western world, especially the United States, this message that Pakistan without an atomic bomb is like a mouse left on a subcontinent full of sharp-toothed cats. In this sense, at some point in its history, Pakistan, with the help of its British advisers, was able to play a game of logic with winning cards and attract the attention of the Western world.
But the course of change went so fast that the yellow dragon woke up in Beijing, and the polar bear yawned in Moscow. Both of them called the unipolar world wrong and considered unilateralism against the UN Charter and the Security Council of this organization. Military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia, Yemen, Syria, and Ukraine have exposed America and the West. The Group of 20 in Bali, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, NATO and Eurasia, and ASEAN appeared for macroeconomic, political, and security programs, and Mr. Khan, exactly one day before the Russian special operation in Ukraine, shook hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which caused anger Western authorities, especially Americans.
All this was simultaneously accompanied by the implementation of the Chinese project "One Belt - One Road", with the opening of Pakistani sea, air, and land corridors and long-term agreements between Islamabad and Beijing, and caused the emergence of new scenarios in Pakistan, which, like a web, clung to the body of politics, security, and economy.
Playing the red card renders Mr. Khan invalid in this twilight situation and could change the course of the political game in another way. It is likely that the US will go into the region under the pretext of protecting and safeguarding Pakistan's nuclear facilities and making an unwritten commitment to confiscate them to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorist and extremist groups.
