Back-door politics

This refers to the news report, ‘Imran Khan rejects PM’s enquiry commission, threatens street protests’ (April 23). I voted – full of hope and enthusiasm – for the PTI in the last election. It has all been downhill from there. If the PTI wishes to come to power, it should try to go the democratic way. This business of trying to come to power by having someone (no prizes for guessing who) knock out Nawaz Sharif does not smell right. And even if someone does, the PML-N will still have 130-something seats in the National Assembly. And the next best – the PTI and the PPP – will still have only 30 or so parliamentarians each.

I, for one, therefore cannot figure out the math of how the PM getting shoved aside by familiar undemocratic (though surely Pakistan loving) elements will pave the way for an Imran Khan-led glorious new dawn, one which has not shone too brightly on the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Perhaps we, the people of this country, will one day vote the PTI into power. Imran Khan should therefore work for and wait for that day. And if it comes, he should walk proudly into the corridors of power through the front door.

Sher Ali Khan

Mardan