Pakistan - Imran Khan’s parrots

And their honest police force

For two days PTI sycophants lavished praises over the KP government for arresting revenue minister Ali Amin Gandapur. Their comments were identical. Didn’t we say the police in KP was independent of government pressure? Would any other political party arrest its own minister for wrongdoing? Wasn’t Gandapur nabbed the moment it was proved that he had broken the law? Why blame the PTI alone, aren’t there bad eggs in every political party?

The PTI parrots are used to repeating faithfully whatever the leadership says. The rare breed with a black band around their neck would repeat anything however irrational once it was certified as official truth. When Imran Khan said drone attacks are the root cause of terrorism, every parrot chanted the mantra day in and day out. Now that Khan is silent on the subject, the birds too have forgotten the tune. If it suited Imran Khan to announce at 1 pm that it was a dark night, every parrot would repeat that it was night and that only the PPP and PML-N agents were calling it day out of sheer malice for the great Khan. Some would even look towards the sky and claim they could see clearly the Big Bear and the pole star.

Imran Khan has now decided to support Gandapur. After concluding somewhat late that sending a minister to jail would be a political blunder, Khan has declared that Gandapur has been politically victimised and that he had in fact taken away the ballot papers for safekeeping. Khan has however yet to construct a convincing story regarding who was behind the political victimisation. To his dismay the case against Gandapur was not initiated by the PPP or the PML-N. The JUI-F did not have anything to do with the case either. The incriminating Incident Report was filed by the District Police Officer after hearing the AC City, local SHO and the villagers who blocked the minister’s way.

Imran Khan takes credit for turning the KP Police into the most honest force in the entire country. Hasn’t he repeated umpteen times that unlike the police in Punjab and Sindh, the KP police acts independently of the political administration? How could the centerpiece of Imran Khan’s political achievement suddenly turn out to be no different from its counterparts in other provinces by indulging in political victimisation and that too of one of PTI’s provincial ministers?

Once Imran Khan nails down the real culprits who were behind the conspiracy to malign the innocent Gandapur, the parrots too would start repeating the new tune totally forgetting what they had been singing so far. Parrots after all are parrots.