New Delhi:
The Imran Khan government in Pakistan had assumed power in August ZZ 2018,and the going has been pretty tough and full of political frustration for theruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Smarting from the defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's local body elections, on Saturday, Dec 25,Khan restructured his party organisation.
Defence Minister Pervez Khattak has been made chief of the PTI party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
and National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri has been made the new leader in politicallycrucial Balochistan.
For another key political region in Pakistan, the Sindh, Imran Khan has nominatedMinister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi as the party's local unit president.
Zaidi tweeted to say he was "humbled by the faith" that the leader had shown in him.
"Will try to live up to the expectations of all, especially PTI workers. Together we will pull Sindh out of deprivation," he tweeted.
Fahd Husain, Resident Editor of 'Dawn' daily, says: "It has literally been downhill from the day that Prime Minister Imran Khan took oath of office in August of 2018. That was the highest point for the PTI. Each year since then has weakened the government’s performance, diluted its credibility and undercut its viability as a party that is fit to rule".
He further says, "If it somehow survives in office in 2022, it would do so as a weakened shell of its original self".
Prime Minister Imran Khan had earlier acknowledged that wrong selection of candidates had led to the party’s defeat in its stronghold of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) has managed to win the highest number of mayor / chairman seats in the keenly fought elections for 39 tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa held on December 19.
As the year ends, Imran Khan's party is in worse shape than it was when 2021 had dawned. "It is now struggling to stay afloat in a sea of mounting troubles...," says the commentary in 'Dawn'.
It can be stated from an Indian perspective that time has dulled Pakistan's memory in more ways than one. Thus, notwithstanding the claim of enforcing principles of 'Naya Pakistan' - as claimed by Imran Khan - Islamabad has not yet given up the old habits of trying to thrive in propaganda.
Between Imran Khan's regime in Pakistan and the Narendra Modi-led dispensation in India,it has been three years.
The biggest tussle and battle of nerves between Modi and Imran came in February 2019. India retaliated
Pulwama terror attack by bombing some terror hideouts.
Of course Imran Khan’s tenure would also go down the memory lane in Pakistan that saw abrogation
of Article 370 by the Modi government, and it could do nothing much about it.
During the tenure of PM Imran, on another occasion Pakistan got it on its nose was at The Hague.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on July 17, 2019 by 15-1 verdict held Kulbhushan Jadhav's conviction by
Pakistan wrong.
The year 2021 was especially harsh on Imran's party, says Dawn's Fahd Husain.
He says, "though the scourge of inflation has dogged it since previous years, it was this year that it really cut deep into household budgets".
"Not all of it was the government’s doing — Covid supply issues creating mayhem across the globe — but much of it was. And is. The inability of the (Imran) government to manage the supply side of essential commodities, and the bumbling way in which it tackled macroeconomic policies, fed into the monster of inflation," he notes.
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