Imran khan u turn history
Channel: Mediatrack
Date: 2022-10-03

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has a special love affair with U-turns and has by now completed quarter-century (silver jubilee) of volte-faces if one was able to correctly count them.

There is a strong likelihood that some about-turns may be missing from the list compiled by this reporter. Every time, Imran Khan reversed his previous stand, he gave his own logic and reasoning that was hardly convincing and impressed all and sundry.

His latest 180 degree turn was the end of boycott of the National Assembly. While announcing to stay away from the Lower House of Parliament, he had declared that he would not attend its sessions till a decision of the Supreme Court on the offshore companies against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his children. Everyone knows that no ruling has come from the top court.

Before this boycott, the PTI had not turned up in the National Assembly for months in 2014 during its prolonged sit-in and had dubbed it as a collection of looters, tax evaders and thieves. After wrapping up that protest, it had ended the boycott to earn unforgettable boos and jeers from its parliamentary rivals.

At the time, the PTI lawmakers at the federal level and in Punjab had also tendered their resignations but had taken them back conveniently after doing away with the sit-in.

After the surfacing of the Panama Papers scandal, Imran Khan had quickly demanded a judicial commission headed by the chief justice but when the Supreme Court agreed to constitute it, he threatened to boycott it.

He had also called for a judicial commission to probe his allegations of rigging in the 2013 elections, but when it was formed and had started functioning, he had repeatedly stated that the time for such body has gone by.