The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is our Scheherazade, an obsessive vendetta its existential challenge
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is our Scheherazade, wedded to its King Shahryar, who has vowed to eradicate corruption and deliver a Naya Pakistan. She must find a way around this predicament or else risk extermination.
Elected as the country’s prime minister in 2018, Imran Khan finally secured the job he had wanted and sought for a long time. Many analogies to cricket situations were invoked along the way and the people were promised a spectacular end to widespread corruption in Pakistan. Corruption, according to the PTI’s principal narrative, was the bane of Pakistan’s existence; the ultimate threat to good governance, social justice and economic prosperity. How has the chapter on delivering a corruption-free Naya Pakistan fared?