Naya Daur executive editor Murtaza Solangi on Saturday likened Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan to a vendor overlooking a shop that lacked both: custom and glamour.
He made the comments in flagship Naya Daur show Khabar Say Aagay. Solangi said Khan’s confidence, however, was akin to a general who had emerged victorious in a war and not one who had been dealt a crushing defeat.
The Friday Times — Naya Daur editor Raza Rumi said Khan was not an “inaugural project”. He said similar “experiments” had been conducted earlier. What was unprecedented, however, he said was how an institution stood “exposed” this time around.
Lawyer Abdul Moiz Jaferii said the response to Ahmad Noorani’s report on former COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s assets was rather muted since every general considered themselves entitled to this.
Flagship Naya Daur show Khabar Say Aagay streams every Monday to Saturday at 9pm.
Looks like the blurb of today’s episode is in favour of Raza Rumi but the actual rebuttal in the show by Tamkanant blew Raza’s comment to pieces. If it was a true competition she would have won outright as Murtaza Solangi also very rightly agreed with her comments.
Project Imran is unique. During a martial law regime budding politicians have to respond to a dictator’s offer to get a foot in the door when a king’s party is selected. ZAB took up foreign ministry and NS took Punjab ministry during these times. This happens out of desperation in political circles when a martial law is in full control of the state and no one knows when this dark night will end. As soon as those dark period of our history ended both ZAB and NS established their own party and took up the space of leftist and centre right politics respectively. Their politics have been anti establishment throughout the rest of their careers and one was eliminated, family exiled and his party suppressed and other survived death penalty, party was hijacked, suffered exile, got minus one and has absconded to evade rotting in jail. This suffering and positioning describes them as democrats. They both were not projects but had a career break in martial laws.
Imran declared his political ambition 26 years ago and established his party but had failed for 18 years when 7-8 years ago he sold his soul to the devil during a completely non martial law parliamentary period when after 6 decades of suffering and losing half of the country we were looking forward to repetitive elections, continuity of Parliament and emergence of two party democratic state like most stable democracies. Project Imran was a completely pro establishment anti democratic move. He accepted because of lack of moral centre because there was no other compulsion as it was a democratic period. Because of this our elections and say was stolen from us and a covert martial law was imposed. It was meant to subvert parliament. This was a hybrid regime period. That’s moral excrement and a blatant attempt at Fascism against the people and we should be glad it’s over.
Our institutions both military and judiciary colluded and have inflicted this upon themselves and have lost all value in the eyes of all segments of our society whether they have suffered or benefited from it. PDM and PTI universally have lost faith in them as Moiz said in not so many words.
Last 8 years of project Imran has completely undone our institutions when we were rebuilding themselves since the latest return of democracy. This period will be remembered as a Bajwa-Imran Fascist period of Pakistan history.
29 November will always be remembered as a day of deliverance from our brush with Fascism. It was akin to almost the rise of Nazis in Germany and we all know what happened after. But since Imran suffers from destructive NFD which will make it very difficult not to long for it again and again. If he returns through the ballot box he will certainly make another attempt at it.