PM Shehbaz Sharif confident his ‘speedy work’ will frighten ex-premier Imran Khan
“You [Imran Khan] may be panicked due to my speed of work but the people have stopped panicking.”
A PM who is not working for the country but in his mind he has Imran Khan all over and how to belittle him , how can he work for the good of the state? This is the message he is sending to the masses who are laready fed up with the purana Pakistan.
Under PML-N the quality of political discourse in Pakistan had sunk to a new low, with ministers believing their main job is to attack the opposition and demolish the ‘messenger’ of every important message.
Perhaps the reason people of this country waited for a messiah for 3 decades of corrupt goverance was that they waited someone like Imran Khan to appear and instill some hope, some confidence, some courage to the people. Shakespeare captured the political climate of fear and unrest in his play on the assassination of a popular and powerful ruler in another time and place – Rome. The play was Julius Caesar. In the opening section of the play Shakespeare introduces us to Brutus, wracked by doubt and torn between loyalty to his friend and love for his country. He refers to himself as “poor Brutus, with himself at war”. A little later we know what precisely troubles Brutus when he says: “I do fear, the people choose Caesar for their king.” By the time of the assassination, Brutus decides: “If then (any) friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, then my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more.”
Pandemonium in the Houses of Parliament is nothing new but he general public normally disapproves of unconventional conduct by members of parliament inside the House. Parliament is a very sophisticated system which needs to be worked with a certain finesse. Mutual trust, accommodation of each other’s larger interests and respect for each other’s views make it possible to build consensus on issues which come before the parliament.
The parliament of ours has been less known for civil exchanges, and better known for banality, deliberate barbs and cultivated incivility. The quality of political discourse in the country has sunk to a new low. The moment even mild criticism emanates from an investigative journalist, a political satirist, a poet, a dramatist, an author, a scholar or from opposition leaders, cabinet ministers line up to demolish the messenger of perhaps an important message.
