State power is necessary with street power

 

Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan have announced a real freedom movement against the government, the aim of which is to get rid of the government and hold new elections soon.

If one examines the political history of Pakistan, generally only those protest movements against the government have been successful which had some form of support from the establishment or which resulted in the form of martial law.

However, the recent statements of the former prime minister show that he is also opposing the neutrality of the establishment and the current political government, so his movement does not seem to have such support. So will they succeed in repeating the new history or will history repeat itself?

"State power is necessary with street power"

 Senior journalist and analyst Mujbibur Rehman Shami said that in history no government has ever fallen due to a movement against the will of the establishment.

Referring to history, he said that in 1969, when the rule of then-President Ayub Khan ended, even after the intervention of the army, General Yahya Khan came to power.

According to Mujibur Rahman Shami, when the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) movement against former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was successful in 1977, martial law was imposed and General Zia-ul-Haq took power.

Similarly, in the nineties, the governments of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir were dismissed under 58 2B, but when it expired, in 1999, the Nawaz Sharif government was abolished by General Pervez Musharraf's martial law.

According to a senior journalist, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was also dismissed by the Supreme Court by suo motu, which was also an extra-constitutional move in a sense because this decision set a new precedent.

To a question regarding the possibility of the success of the movement against Imran Khan's government, he said that in April, Imran Khan's government was terminated by a no-confidence motion and if he had been in the parliament, he might have been defeated by the no-confidence motion. Only they could end the current government.

However, the chances of success of their movement are low because the government does not fall unless the state power is added to the street power.

"Democratic movements against dictators succeeded"

According to political analyst Zaigham Khan, it is not correct to say that the democratic struggle is not successful in Pakistan, because there is no other country in the world where martial law was imposed four times and democracy was restored four times.

History since 1947 is a witness that when the establishment is in government, then the democratic struggle has been successful. This is the reason why Pakistan never became Syria and never Lebanon. Therefore, we should also look at this positive aspect.

According to the senior analyst, most coalitions against democratic governments are engineered or have some aspect of engineering. Undemocratic ousting of democratic governments in the past resulted in martial law as we saw in the PNA movement against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

Zaigham Khan said that PNA leader Air Marshal Asghar Khan had written a letter to the then-army chief inviting intervention as if it was an undemocratic effort that resulted in martial law.

Regarding the success of Imran Khan's movement, he said that in order to oust the government in a democratic way, people need to stand up at the national level and the city-by-city government system has to be jammed, but the mood of the people of Pakistan is It is not anarchy where people like to vote out the government.

This is the reason why Imran Khan's meetings have a large number of people, but despite calling several times, there was no 'up-rising' across the country.