‘Pak military may install an Imran-zardari government in 2023’ ISI, Pannun trying to disrupt Red Fort I-day function
significant factor in the politics of the country; whoever tries to challenge it will be removed. We have seen how democratic governments were overthrown in the past. As of now Imran Khan is a good man for them, so his government they would try to repeat in 2023 even in alliance with the PPP as Asif Ali Zardari has improved his relationship with the deep state,” Sanjay Kumar Bharadwaj, professor of South Asian politics in Jawaharlal Nehru University, told THE SUNDAY GUARDIAN. “Now the Chinese factor looms large in Pakistani politics. Traditional parties like PML(N) may not fit in that; Pakistani military wants to be in the barracks but control things from outside,” he added.
The confrontational approach by PML(N) against the army establishment led to an overall attack by the deep state to put the party on the margins and helped the PTI to gain the confidence of the deep state as it backed the military in the episode. “Democracy is a joke in Pakistan; all the elections are more or less rigged. Once Nawaz Sharif was brought by the establishment to counter Benazir Bhutto, now Imran Khan has been nurtured and made the Prime Minister,” a senior commentator on Pakistan affairs told THE SUNDAY GUARDIAN. In a nutshell, if a PTI-PPP government is formed in 2023, then it will be courtesy Pakistani military establishment’s control over the democratic process. of 5,000, these 50 become a potent force. The intel indicates what the Isi-backed ‘Khalistan’ infiltrators intend to do by keeping the farmers on the front,” an official aware of the situation said. It may be mentioned that a liberal policy of giving visas even to those known in the past to have been enthusiastic backers of the Pakistan military strategy of creating violence in the name of “Khalistan” had been followed for some years, although wiser counsel seems to have prevailed since last year’s violent scenes in the National Capital Region.