False Narratives.

A true and genuine political leader is a person who, with his visionary narrative and strategic initiatives, plays a transformational role in the process of nation-buildingand invariably prefers national interest over the political interest of his own political party if a permeating situation so demands. Above all, a true leader also stands at a higher moral pedestal than the people he is supposed to lead. If we apply this yardstick to judge our past and present political leaders, no one has the credentials of a true leader.

The military dictators who dismissed representative governments with the promise of reforming the system and eliminating in-built avenues of corruption in it also succumbed to the lures of power wielding. The cumulative effect of the shenanigans of politicians and military dictators is that the country, even after almost seventy-five years of its independence, is still struggling to find its direction, and has had to face existentialist threata and is now in the grip of an unprecedented economic melt-down and political instability.

Imran Khan who came on the political horizon of the country as a revolutionary, determined to put the country on the path envisioned by the father of the nation and give it a corruption-free system of governance, is also part of the problem.

During his three and half years rule, instead of reforming the system of governance, he focused more on political vendettas by instituting cases against opposition leaders. He also defied democratic norms by failing to build a working relationship with the opposition, which is imperative in a democratic dispensation. He hated even sitting together with the opposition to deliberate on contentious national issues. He ruled the country through ordinances, lowering the prestige of the parliament. The natural consequence of pushing the opposition to the wall was the no-confidence motion against him which ultimately succeeded. The opposition used its constitutional right to depose him.

It was, however, not smooth sailing as per the constitution. Imran resorted to...