Imran vs democracy

Published September 3, 2014

ORDINARY global citizens like me are shocked to see what is happening in Pakistan! How can Imran Khan challenge duly-elected members of the National Assembly and a duly-elected prime minister?

If this type of protest is allowed, how can democracy succeed in Pakistan? If every loser calls the election he lost as ‘rigged’, then why have elections at all?

How come the PPP, the MQM and other political parties are not uniting behind Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif? Instead they seem to be criticising him. The media too needs to stand behind him.

A revolution is needed in Pakistan, but not the Imran Khan- type of revolution. He has no role in helping democracy.

May God bless Pakistan with a good, stable democracy.

K.B. Kale
Jakarta, Indonesia

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2014

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