Oscar
Moderator
Unfortunately the Cipher was a case of linking one foreign policy aspect with an already failing local narrative.The Opposition formally announced VoNC on 11th February, 2022.
PDM announces no-trust motion against PM Imran’s govt | The Express Tribune
Announcement made following a meeting of the multi-party alliance during a press conference in Islamabadtribune.com.pk
Unless Americans went back in time to tell Pakistani opposition to file a no confidence motion for something that was going to happen a month later, your whole theory sounds fiction at best.
And the justification given is that it was conspiracy which it could have been or simply a benefactor in the establishment not willing to cover for a man who compromised his so called principles - so why should they not go back to their existing formula (regardless of the actual idiocy of that approach) instead of someone who they have no results from(in the metrics that matter from their perspective ) other than rhetoric.
Moreover, if the cipher’s content is real it completely destroys the self righteous victimhood narrative in the sense that it displays how much IK and Co did create policies which in retrospect did fail in achieving any of the idealistic claims behind them.
The question then isn’t whether IK was removed due to conspiracy
but that subsequent suppression of what was a part victim but mostly anti-system narrative driven vote bank that went to polls for him - due to a campaign driven on this cipher by a man unwilling to accept he was outmaneuvered in politics & statecraft due to his own ego and compromises made for his personal subservience to a unprincipled spouse - was illegal or not in how the system led by the establishment stole this mandate provided,
That question has a much straighter and cleaner answer and is supported by Pakistani history of preventing any actual power to the people by the establishment of which the military is a part of but includes business and feudal elite.
So - PTI is justified to protest the farcical results of the election.
But have no grounds based on this cipher to justify if they were actually doing “great things” or “constrained” or “victims” in during their government.
If anything, it only proves that IK was a bumbling leader no better than previous populists everywhere in his judgement of realpolitik nor of the system he supposedly came to change while willing to compromise on his principles.
Jinnah was criticized heavily by his contemporaries and by historians since on his flips in views.
His shift from Congress to Muslim League, his strategic use of communal politics in 1937, his calculated ambiguity on whether Pakistan would be secular or theocratic and ALL of it has been dissected and questioned for decades.
What nobody seriously disputes is the man estranged his only daughter rather than let personal sentiment override his political identity. He died with virtually nothing. He built his entire career without a Bani Gala, without a Bushra Bibi, without a Jahangir Tareen funding the operation from behind the scenes.
Imran Khan is a man too proud to admit he was outplayed, dressing up his personal failures in the language of national betrayal which his mice dance to while spouting nothing but pitiful language and low grade compartmentalism based insults on. Because deep down they know this as well - and the only defense then is their typical tape recorder… no different than PMLN or PPPP supporters who go on just Imran Khan tirades while unable to find typical compromises in early PTI appointments of some very good competent people… who themselves subsequently soured of IK.
PTI voters were robbed at the ballot box which is NOT in dispute and the establishment has done this for decades to protect an elitist corrupt system and THAT is not in dispute .
But the man they were voting for was not a principled outsider. He was just another beneficiary of the same establishment he claimed to be fighting, who discovered too late that the arrangement had terms he couldn’t meet.
