Understanding Imran Khan’s no-trust motion situation

Islamabad, April 3 : Despite trying his best to save himself from no-confidence motion for past several weeks, the decision on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s fate would be taking place on Sunday. Last week, Khan spoke about a “threat letter” received from certain international powers and claimed that his ouster by the opposition leaders was actually a part of a global conspiracy. However, he declined to make the ‘letter’ public. Dawn quoted analysts who know the PM as saying that this was nothing more than yet another populist stunt by a man who has repeatedly used sensationalist claims to retain the awe of his core constituents, whose faculties of critical thinking remain suspended while listening to him. However, to understand how Imran Khan ended up in this situation the fine line between political amorality and bad politics needs to be understood, the Pakistan daily reported. It was soon after Imran Khan became the country’s PM, the elites who had vouched for him began doubting their decision. The contemporaries who were sceptical about the prediction of “gradual crash” of Khan’s regime, brought the “threat letter”. According to Dawn, if only these contemporaries had been more invested in doing some actual political analysis, they would have reached the same conclusion that only a handful of analysts, such as Najam Sethi, Saleem Safi, Fahd Hussain and Abbas Nasir, did. Since the Day 1 of no-confidence motion, some members of the ruling party expressed their intent to vote against the government, which Khan claimed that they were “bought” by the opposition. Though there was no evidence to justify the claim, it was supported by several journalists as well. In their minds, they were not echoing what the government was saying but speaking against the ‘unethical’ and ‘immoral’ nature of Pakistani politics, Dawn said. Imran Khan had gained power through political amorality. Later, this amorality created a discord and he faced no-trust motion. RNJ