The Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has levelled the charges against PTI’s Chief Imran Khan is running a foreign funded campaign against Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Muneer. He said in his tweet that the cuss drive against national institutions and its leadership would be intolerable.
The Prime Minister also instructed the Ministry of Interior to take action against the miscreants who are involved in the backbiting of Army Chief.
While replying the PM’s statement, PTI’s leader Fawad Chudhary also said in his tweet, “Let me make it clear PTI has nothing to do with any slanderous campaign against Army Chief, rather we expect his good office to play role in normalizing Pak politics by helping ECP to hold peaceful and transparent elections.”
On the other side the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab Mohsin Naqvi said in his press conference that from now on the provincial government would reply that the elements who are spreading chaos in the province would be dealt with iron hands.
It seems that the PDM led government has taken the decision to play on front foot against PTI’s Chairman Imran Khan. But the aggressive move from the government would deteriorate the situation and enhance the political tension.
At this point of juncture, when the economic condition of the country is moving towards default, and the government should pay its full heed towards the streamlining of the economy of Pakistan, but contrary to this, the government is in the mood to create further political polarization.
If the tug of war between the PTI and the government intensified, then the country would have to face prodigious damage and the ultimate sufferer would be the common man. Now when the economy is going to drown and the general elections are very near then, the rigidity of the people in the power corridor would prove detrimental to the country. Actually the stubborn behavior of the government would also tarnish its image in the people, who are already fed up with the rulers due to excessive waves of price hikes during their tenure.
The politics of the decade of 1990s harmed the country, when PPP and PML(N) were fighting against each with full power so much that its aftermaths are still bumping the economy of the country even after the lapse of three decades.
It looks like that the both political parties i.e. Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N) who were in extreme opposition in the ear of 90s, but now they are coalition partners in the government, have not learned any lesson from their past and now once again they are going to air the flames of political rivalry in Pakistan just for their face saving instead of restructuring the economy which has become the urgent requirement of the time.
Both the government as well as PTI should align their direction in the right way and get prepared for the next general elections that are going to be held within the current calendar year. The hovering tense political situation would not only harm the country, but the whole saga would hurt both the political powers.