![]() They have forced out not one, but two chief election commissioners, for attempting to enforce it, through the implementation of a free and fair intra-party election. The concept of universality seems lost on them. It is ironic that a leadership which based much of its recent political strategy on the sanctity of the Supreme Court, has largely ignored its own party’s constitution. I am deeply saddened to see the way in which we are squandering ours. History, politics and people rarely create political opportunities of this magnitude. Despite countless opportunities, God-given, people-bestowed, and establishment-provided, the PTI has lost momentum. Our repeated failure to fill the vacuum created by the PPP’s decline in Punjab, and the MQM’s continued fracture in Sindh, have further exacerbated matters. The inability to build this institution has also profoundly demoralised party workers across Pakistan. Much like Ayub Khan’s Convention Muslim League or Pervez Musharraf’s ‘King’s Party’, in its current state, the PTI will go the way of the dodo. ![]() While this is not particularly democratic, having no system at all, virtually guarantees the PTI’s early demise. The latter two will survive their current leadership because they have hereditary succession. Today, the PTI faces a far greater existential threat than the PML-N or the PPP because its future is tied to the fate of one man. Nevertheless, party loyalists supported Imran Khan because he had consistently assured us that like Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, we would make the PTI an institution, so that its core values would remain intact, no matter who came or went, and for generations to come. Elections, which despite a wave of support, were lost due to the resultant internal strife. The leadership felt that these ‘electables’ were needed to ensure victory in the 2013 elections. Now that the electorate were convinced we were different, that we represented the disenfranchised middle and lower classes, we began recruiting opportunists from other political parties. Having achieved critical mass on the basis of our message, the PTI initiated a course contrary to its political ideals. But then something inexplicable happened. On October 31 st 2011, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Inquilabi Nazriya erupted on the streets of Pakistan.
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