within the party ranks.
Already, PTI chief’s politics is replete with U-turns. Some of these are, his wedding before bringing about a change in Pakistan, payment of power bills to get supply restored, bringing a bizarre end to his massively flawed civil disobedience drive, his decision to withdraw resignations and re-join the National Assembly despite terming Parliament a fake and those sitting inside it thieves and dacoits.
Imran has unfortunately established himself as a politician, who talks big but acts in an ordinary way.
He had formed a three-member commission under the incumbent PTI’s Chief Election Commissioner Tasneem Noorani on the party’s intra party polls, which had declared the electoral exercise largely flawed.
But instead of acting on its report, Imran again constituted an election tribunal, headed by widely-respected Justice Wajeehuddin Ahmad; its other member is Yousaf Gabol. This forum issued its order on October 17, 2014. It called, among other things, for re-poll within three months, reducing term of office of the party’s elected persons to two years.
Through orders, the tribunal continued reminding and even cautioning Imran to follow the order in letter and spirit, who instead, summarily asked the tribunal stop functioning, which was defied by Wajeehuddin.
Then take the case of Ziaullah, which was brought to his notice last year by PTI’s so-called forward bloc, led by Qurban Ali, the MPA elected from Nowshera, PK-16. They had given documentary proofs against the mining minister. However, to their dismay, it was totally ignored.
It was only recently that not Imran or his party, the provincial Accountability Commission took action against the minister. It is widely alleged that few key PTI leaders, sitting in Islamabad are sooner or later, to be probed for their role in corruption.
It goes without saying that the commission report throws up an opportunity to the party chairman to show how different he is from the rest of politicians on receiving a political set-back.