THE ONGOING DEMOCRATIC TURMOIL IN A PAKISTAN:
IMRAN KHAN’S TOPPLED GOVERNMENT.
For the last few months, Pakistan has been in the twilight of its political period. Because of the ongoing disorder and the opposition’s vote of no- confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan, there have been many protests in various cities. Imran Khan, who is internationally known for winning the 1992 Cricket world cup and building the first-ever cancer hospital in Pakistan, was elected in the 2018 elections and formed a coalition government. The elected government since then has faced many grave issues in its tenure, among which the most disturbing were economic depression, COVID-19, and the opposition peeve.
In the consistent struggle for Pakistan’s sacrosanctity, Imran khan started many socio-economic development projects which remained unfinished as he was dethroned. Starting from digitalizing forums and promoting public and state harmony, he wanted Pakistan to be completely sovereign in its affairs. There were some serious hurdles that the elected administration faced: ineffective economic planning, high-interest loans from the IMF, execution failure in taxation reforms, inflation, stance in Russia-Ukraine War, and poor international relations policies. During the last 3 years, the Pakistani Rupee constantly fell against the US dollar, and that has led to the ultimate inflation in the country.
From the very start opposing parties did not welcome Imran’s regime warmly and were in the constant struggle for finding flaws and inefficiencies in administration to be used against him and his party. It can be analyzed from three year period of Imran Khan’s government that his plans and strategies were in the best interest of Pakistan, but he needed better policies, better implementation mechanism, better word choice against the opposition and the USA, and better working on his team members.
After the no-trust vote had succeeded, Shahbaz Sharif, the brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed as the head of state. His far most priority is to stabilize the country’s economy. There have been certain measures already taken within three days of the new government, such as pension and salary increases by 10 percent for government employees to relieve the public. The good news is that the Pakistani Rupee is constantly rising against the US dollar.
However, the need of the hour is the economic and political stability in the country other than competing for the self-suited authority. Though this new government has started taking steps, one cannot tell whether it is for the sake of coming elections or they care about people. Whatever the situation is, it is no doubt in saying that after 72 years of independence, Pakistan is still democratically unstable, and that is a significant hindrance to its development.
