All Eyes on One Man
By: Ahmed Maqbool
Tags: Elections, Democracy, Politics, Storytelling, Pakistan

All Eyes on One Man

With each passing day, the uncertainty is rising rampantly and so is the dissent. The environment is charged and so are the politicians. But at the moment all eyes are gaze at one man. How will he respond to it? What will he do? After all he is the only one right now which can do anything.

He is a knight not only on the ground but of a chess too. He has the resilience to endure pressure, ability to wait for the right time and the patience to see all that is happening around him.

Surely the things cannot run like this anymore. The concept of "hybrid regimes" already losing ground world over. The observers and analysts use the term in a negative light to explain the military-establishment cover under the umbrella of a democratic system of governance. According to the American political scientist Yonatan Morse, previously there was a certain component of optimism attached to the word hybrid regimes that such regimes would transform into becoming liberal democracies. They draw that optimism in the context of an unprecedented occurrence at the end of the Cold War, which saw numerous authoritarian systems across the world erode and adopt the democratic electoral and constitutional tools and reforms. But unfortunately that belief dropped off with time. And it only turns into an "electoral authoritarianism" with nothing but a job to secure their position and control.

After two heart-thumping, high octane and double -wattage events first in Gujranwala and second in Karachi, the opposition accomplished the target to unhinged the PTI-led coalition government.

The PDM is looking intrepid in his stance, turpitude over his way and eruditely playing his moves. Leading the ablaze, frenzy crowd which is ready to mayhem anything obstructed in their way. The motto of PDM is to get rid of this incompetent government as early as possible. And amid this Nawaz named some names that are responsible for bring this current government to power. The allegations are serious and need the clarifications scrupulously.

The opposition is looking ossified and strident so is the prime minister. Things are getting messier and hazy day by day. And needs an urgent rescue. But who is there to resolve all this? The Prime Minister definitely not. There is only man who can clean this mess if he is willing to do it within hours. The need is urgent because Nawaz is already lionised himself as a supreme leader which can go to any extent for the supremacy of constitutionalism. And on the other hand, Imran is not ready for coming out of his hallowed bubble of "NRO Nahi Doh Gya". Who is left behind? Yes, you guessed it right the establishment. And to be more precise the one around which the whole story revolves. He can impair the opposition pejorative stance but can’t scotch the growing emotion of dejection on incumbent which is growing due to there own ineptitude and inexperience. Need of the time is to stand up and save the credibility of the institution which he is currently commanding. He needs to unveil the truth and clear his position for once and all. No time to stay in limbo. But to explicit every possible doubt that is mustered in the public. One only hopes that he will act impeccably to tranquil the growing political instability instead of staying silent on the use of state machinery to suppress and oppress the opposition through hard hands. A pluralistic approach is required from the higher authorities to recuperate their image from being electoral authoritarian to law-abiding institution. The tranquilizer is in his hand and only he will decide when to use it and how to use it.