IK Daring The Establishment- Part 2

 IK Daring The Establishment- Part 2

Establishment’s eternal accomplice,  Pakistani Media (Print, Electronic & Digital) is 99.99% subdued. The only genre they have not been able to harness is digital media particularly Vloggers because they are paid by YouTube and not by the compromised media houses except BOL & ARY (partially compromised due to recent data update). Since most media is fed, controlled and patronised by info/ public relations department of both Govt & establishment, few genuine media people got into real quandary when establishment shifted its narrative in favour of Thieves. Some of media people had built their careers on these narratives. It would have been a disaster for Imran Riaz Khan & Siddique Jan to take a U turn on narrative injected into them, on which they got convinced and sold it to people. 

Interestingly, everyone in this country was forced to think or rethink his/ her approach towards politics, establishment and future of Pakistan in past five months. Starting from myself, I was indoctrinated that NS, AAZ even JUI, JI had foreign agendas to serve. Past decade we were fed on their corruption scandals and other shortcomings. When they would abuse Army, we would stand like sentinels of our institution at digital media frontiers. IK was presented to us in different way. Longing for overdue change, most people stood by the slogan of change. Suddenly, a change of heart by the most powerful man in the country and IK seemed to possess every ill imaginable and his Govt was toppled. Establishment installed same people whom they vilified for past two decades. Was established right then or now? Actually, it never was right.

Our men in uniform are real gemstones. They are simple, God fearing and if situation demands they would put their lives for this country without second thought. With all these super cool qualities, they are easy to manipulate as were we in our younger days. Some hard core soldiers still have faith in the ‘system’ and I feel for them because once I was one of them and thought exactly the same way and bought the deceitful narrative as it was sold to me. And I would beg everyone to draw a distinctive line between soldiers in the field and astray decision makers. My heart bleeds for my institution and the country but hope must remain alive.

There is a way out rather face saving option for the big face & redemption for the institution. Abandon thieves. Simply disown them. Continue in the big office. Have fresh elections if possible, free & fair. Let people have their say. Let them shape destiny. Let new Chief Executive choose the next most powerful man in the country. If this option not taken & ‘engineering’ continues then country shall be pushed back a decade or two and institution shall take couple of generations to redeem itself.  

For IK, what happened or didn’t happen on 25/26 May can’t go unnoticed.  You stood us up. We felt stranded like Pakistan, forsaken by all institutions and politicians. The only ray of hope was that we were there with Pakistan. So when you decide to go out this time, first reach there, share your Google pin and we may join you.