Imran no friend of India

Sushil Kutty
Imran Khan feels slighted that the Indian media made him sound and look like a Bollywood villain. He should be glad he was not bracketed with the Bollywood hero. Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor… ‘Hero’ Amitabh Bachchan didn’t click with the audience. His copyright anti-hero took the cake. And reel-life villain Prem Chopra is a thorough gentlemen in real life.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief, all set to take over as Pakistan Prime Minister, should rise in his own graces. It is not easy. But third-time lucky is what they say. Khan’s first two marriages rocked only to be rocked. The third wife is not unlucky. Bushra Maneka stepped in and Khan made PM! Goes to prove that one Bushra in hand is worth a Jemima and a Reham in the bush.
Bushra covers Khan’s spirituality base. She tells him where he should be on the moral compass. Advice on statecraft and real-estate is covered by the military. It is said Pakistan military owns 46% of the country’s real-estate, which includes the disputed and bloodied Balochistan.
Khan wants to make amends for the military’s gluttony. Khan’s austerity measures include the promise not to live in the palatial Prime Minister’s House with its “gold-plated” chairs and cots. Speaking impromptu after watching PTI numbers climb in the Pakistan National Assembly, Khan vowed to turn Governor’s Houses into money-making utilities that will give people jobs.
There is danger in the rhetoric. Short of the magic number to form Government, MNA (member of the national assembly) of smaller parties and ‘Others’, whose support Khan will need, might not link up with him and his party. What is there in becoming an MNA if not allowed to live with the trappings of power and protocol; privy not allowed to ornery human beings?
Even the military might revolt in the face of austerity. What use owning 46 percent of Pakistan, sugar factories and toothpaste manufacturing facilities, not to speak of banks and hotels and resorts, if barred from living in the lap of luxury? Nobody sets out in public or military life with austerity the albatross. Unthinkable.
Simply put, Prime Minister Imran Khan can’t believe that every Pakistani wife is like Bushra his own, covered in austerity. Gold jewellery manufacturers and designers of fine high-end ladies garments will be reduced to penury. Every Pakistani woman will swoon under Khan’s strict give-up-the-world laws. Keeping one woman happy at home doesn’t mean making the entire lot outside unhappy. Lollywood will label him villain.
Khan says he’ll be guardian of Pakistan’s taxes (Sounds like somebody’s Chowkidar!) That he will put taxes to correct and right use. It’s scary for Pakistani politicians and big business to hear such talk. More boatloads of cash will make a run from Karachi Port. Maybe even from Gwadar Port if the Chinese allow it.
The once fast-bowler says he will send a delegation to China to learn how to lift people out of poverty. He need not – a dictator can do as he pleases. Question is whether he’ll be benevolent as he promises to be? For the Pakistani hoi-polloi, all this sounds good to the ear. Khan says he’ll not be the vindictive politician, but he need not be. Nawaz Sharif and Maryam he has already seen to it that they were put in jail.     But it is Prime Minister Imran Khan’s views on radicalism and terrorism, linked closely to his India policy, which will be tested. Like every Pakistani Prime Minister in the cusp, Khan has started off by taking the ‘K’ word. Stumbling on the word with intent and purpose, Khan says he’ll be keeping a close watch on what Pakistanis call “India-held Kashmir”. If Hafiz Saeed had just then stepped to his side, Khan would have given him a casual glance and said “O! It’s you” and gone on with his uplifting speech.
It galls the common Indian when a Pakistani PM – in this case one in the making – talks of Kashmir as if he owns the Valley.
There’s an anti-Indian in Imran Khan, not hidden but for all to see. He wants to turn Pakistan into a medley of Medina-like cities. He says Medina was the first smart-city the world ever saw. Obviously, he hasn’t heard of Ram Rajya and Yogi Adityanath’s Ayodhya. Ignorance is an ass and Imran says in Medina even the lowly dog was allowed dignity. It’s another matter that he called Nawaz Sharif supporters “donkey” and a PTI leader beat a donkey to death!
To get to know Imran Khan don’t watch Indian anchors hold forth on Indian TV channels. Get an eyeful and earful of Pakistani TV cthannels – Geo, ARY, Samay, Dunya… Listen to what newly elected PTI MNA Dr. Ameer Liaqat Hussain has to say about India and what Imran Khan’s thoughts on India are. Ameer Liaqat is a talkative @#*^# who can’t ever get the anti-India bile out of his system. Goaded by an ARY anchor, he vowed to beautify metropolis Karachi and run out India every opportunity he got to speak in Imran Khan’s Parliament. Inshallah! Imran Khan is no friend of India. Neither will be his Medina.   (IPA)

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