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PTI’s FIRST 100 DAYS - RULE OF AND BY U-TURNS

Pakistan Peoples Party Response to PTI's Hundred Days Plan and Hundred Days in
Power
Introduction

Before 2018 elections, PTI created much hype around its 100-day plan, drawing up charts and power point
presentations to lay down a vast, ambitious but equally ambiguous agenda for its first 100 days in the
government.

In this plan, PTI promised transformation of governance, strengthening of the federation and revitalizing the
economy. They promised a revolution in the social services, and they promised to ensure national security.

More specifically, the party promised to strengthen the federation by creating a South Punjab province, a
mega development package for FATA and a development package for Karachi. The government promised to
revitalize the economy by an economic package which included creation of 10 million jobs, and building 5
million houses, besides promotion of manufacturing sector and medium and small enterprises, and tourism
by identifying 4 tourist destinations.

The PTI has reneged or conveniently u-turned on their promises, whether it is economic pledges, political
positions, governance reforms, or foreign policy commitments, which is hardly surprising. We consider that
their 100-day plan was nothing but an electoral gimmick and that is what it has become, as 100 days are over,
as little of their agenda stands implemented.

Hundred days later, this 100-day plan has become an object of mockery and joke making, as few in the
country are taking it seriously, while PTI is trapped in its own statements and words and have announced to
launch yet another progress report which PPP considers nothing but a ‘cover-up’ of the 100 days of U-turns,
pure lies, and deception.

In fact not only that they have backtracked on their words and promises, none other than the party leader has
stated that this is a sign of leadership to make U turns. This is not only a confession of their lack of
conviction, it is an admission of their inability to make decisions they believe in.

We feel the country is being run by a ‘selected’ Prime Minister and his ‘selected’ cabinet which is making the
poor people of this country go through political somersaults. Having no answers to our questions, PTI
cabinet members contradict one another, PTI spokespersons are often abusive and aggressive.

This short report examines the PTI’s 100-day Plan as it was presented prior to elections to throw light on
how many of these commitments, pledges, and promises were actually delivered to the people.

The PTI plan comprised seven themes and within each of these themes several pledges. Let us closely look at
the PTI themes and how PTI backtracked, U-turned or simply ignored the promises made by them leading to
nothing but a rule of and by U-turns.

THEME 1: TRANSFORMING THE GOVERNANCE

In this theme, PTI promised that they would reform the government by vigorously pursuing accountability,
by putting in place an effective local government system, depoliticizing the police, rationalizing access to
justice and initiating civil service reforms. Except empty rhetoric on accountability and a task force on civil

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service reform, there was business as usual on governance characterized by favouritism, political pressure on
the police, and the usual transfer posting job. There were many U-turns here, the most glaring of them
concerned the Prime Minister and his cabinet’s performance in the ‘selected accountability' and the non-
performance in the National Assembly and the Senate:

1. Accountability’s multiple U-turns: Ehtesab as Intaqam

Not a day has passed in the last 100 days when PTI Ministers, MPs and even the Prime Minister himself have
not called out the corrupt and vowed action against them. But these have become empty slogans as PTI’s
role in anticorruption campaign is partisan and controversial. There are two particular U-turns we would like
to point out as below:

• The Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Ehtesab Commission was closed down arbitrarily after wasting the
nation’s resources of about 1billion rupees. The Ehtesab Commission was set up with the aim of
eliminating corruption under the 2013 manifesto of the PTI. Has corruption been wiped out from
KP or do they consider it a failed initiative? In our view it is a U-turn so that it allows them to evade
oversight in the province under their own watch.

• Out of the 800 plus Pakistani property owners in Dubai, announced by PTIs Asset Recovery Unit,
one name is known to all – that of Aleema Khan, who is the sister of PM Imran Khan. But she has
apparently been allowed to get away from investigation by paying penalty to the FBR showing that
PTI campaign against corruption does not involve their own people or the first family and therefore
seems to be victimisation of the Opposition. We consider this a plea bargain without accountability
allowed to the Prime Minister’s sister creating an exception in the law.

• Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Hall of Fame includes his friends, financiers and cronies which are
appointed in all shades of Advisers and Special Assistants. Among the ‘luminaries’ are Zulfiqar
Bukhari, and Awn Chaudhry, who are seen to be selected not on the basis of performance but on
nepotism.

2. U-Turns in the Parliament

The Prime Minister promised to give weekly answers in the parliament in Prime Minister’s Question Time.
However, not only has he not responded to questions, he has hardly made any appearances in the parliament.
The Opposition has demanded that he come and speak in the house on his various visits abroad, but he has
adamantly stayed away from the sessions, preferring instead to restrict his appearances before television
cameras in edited and televised addresses.

The Government has also yet to make any laws in the first 100 days in the legislature, which has just become
a debating club.

In addition, by denying the Opposition leader the right to take the charge of the Public Accounts Committee
as has been the tradition, the government is only showing its insecurity and short-sightedness. This stubborn
position has also been instrumental in stalling of the parliamentary work and the formation of the
Committees.

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Most oversight work of the government takes place in Standing Committees, but to date not a single
Standing Committee has been formed and not one meeting to monitor the working of the government has
taken place. This makes a mockery of the government claim of ensuring transparency as this is not possible
without parliamentary oversight.

To add insult to injury when the Senate Chairman banned Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, he went
on a tirade against the Senate Chairman and sadly was backed by the Prime Minister in this reactionary
behaviour.

3. Anti-Encroachment drive and Bani-Gala: Aik Nahin Do Pakistan

The PTI government brought down hundreds of buildings in Islamabad Capital Territory and the Punjab, yet
when it came to Bani Gala, there was an offer for regularization of the property. This is not one but two
Pakistans contradicting their promise of equality where one Pakistan is there to protect properties of the rich
and the powerful including Imran Khan, and the other Pakistan of the poor, weak and helpless whose
properties are bulldozed.

4. Local Government System: No Roadmap

The PTI government vowed to bring about changes and reforms in the Local Government system based on
their model in KP. So far, there is no roadmap on this promise, except one meeting by the Prime Minister
where he tasked the Punjab Government to come up with new local government model. In any case, this was
a promise most likely to fail as local government systems under the Constitution are a provincial mandate and
in this case the federal government wanted to force one or two provincial governments to change the order
of things overriding the law, which was not likely to happen.

5. Police Reforms or PTI Police State?

One of the longstanding commitment of the PTI was to reform the police system by instituting independent
policing making it free from political influence. Instead, one of the first scandals to hit the Tabdeeli
government came with the first lady’s ex husband Khawar Maneka ordering a transfer of a district police
officer (DPO), of Pakpattan for not apologising to him. This was followed by transfer of the Inspector
General, Punjab, and later Inspector General, Islamabad. In fact, the IG Islamabad was transferred because
of the PTI Minister Azam Swati’s altercation with his poorer neighbours on the trespassing of their cows into
his farmland! This shows that the police is not only far from independent, it is heavily under pressure from
the political incumbents belonging to the PTI. We fear that PTI aims to impose a Police Raj by ensuring that
they remain under their political influence.

6. Protocol and Security Stunts

For years, PTI criticized ‘lavish’ protocol by various governments in power and promised that they would
follow simplicity when in office. But once in power apart from a few antics, the people witnessed the same
traffic blocks, long queues of cars, and long waits on roads of PTI government.

For instance the newly elected President Arif Alvi would video record his movements without protocol but
accompanied by dozens of security personnel. But many private channels recorded his VVIP drives in a
grand cavalcade.

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 When asked, PTI defence would say this was security and not protocol! Now it is routine to see their
nominated Governors on red carpets, PTI Chief Ministers holding up the traffic, and Prime Minister and his
entourage with same protocol as the previous incumbents.

7. Special Planes and 50 Rupees a km Copters

The PTI government said that Imran Khan would only use commercial flights and no special planes would
be used for foreign visits. However, his visits to Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have been on special planes but
so far the government has not yet given us the details of the costs incurred on these trips. A U-turn on use of
protocol and special transport came when we learnt that the Prime Minister was using a helicopter to ride
back and forth from BaniGala and reportedly his pet dog also accompanied him and enjoyed these rides too!

When Information Minister was confronted on these rides, he was quick with his answer, that these rides
cost 50Rs a km!

THEME 2: STRENGTHENING THE FEDERATION

In the second theme, titled ‘Strengthening the Federation,’ the government promised a South Punjab
province, FATA merger where they promise integration, legislation and launching of a development plan, a
reconciliation process in Balochistan, a Karachi package and an anti-poverty drive in the poorest districts of
Pakistan. Let us examine this tall agenda in detail:

1. South Punjab: A Promise Yet to be Fulfilled

The government promised a South Punjab Taskforce, and did manage to create a two-member task force
comprising the cabinet members from South Punjab, viz, Shah Mehmood Qureishi and Khusro Bakhtiar, but
to our knowledge no meeting of this two member force ever took place. Later on, the Chief Minister
constituted a so called Council on South Punjab, where there was no representation of the Opposition. So far
there has been no statement on the progress made on this pledge which became a major rallying point for
PTI electoral victory in South Punjab. But now this is turning out to be a major betrayal.

2. Karachi Package: Dashed Hopes

The government promised a transformative Karachi package but the commitment to Karachi can be seen
from the fact that it took three weeks for the Prime Minister to visit the Karachi metropolitan city.
Subsequently there has been much lip-service on the issue of Karachi but a concrete package has not been
seen. On the contrary the projects started by PPP Government in Sindh, most importantly the K4 project is
suffering because the federal commitments are not forthcoming.

It may also be mentioned here that Karachi as the capital city of Sindh province is a part of provincial
mandate and announcements of the package without taking the Council of Common Interest (CCI) on board
will be a violation of the constitution.

3. Fata Merger: Delayed and Denied?

In its 100-day plan, the government promised to launch a mega development plan in FATA and begin the
process of extending all laws to FATA. However there is so far only lip-service on both these counts. We

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have yet to see the Government formulating a plan for development, and financial commitments have not
been announced either.

4. Poverty Alleviation Drive: Bulldozing of the Poor

Although we have yet to see or hear of the PTI government’s anti-poverty drive in the poorest districts, we
have seen, heard and experienced PTI’s anti poor drive. At the first instance, the PTI government launched
anti-encroachment drive against the poorest of the poor in Punjab and in Islamabad while offering an NRO
to the Prime Minister himself for his irregular, and unregularised palatial farm in the notorious Bani Gala
where the elite have converted farms into residential areas without permits.

5. Attempt to Roll back 18th Amendment: Weakening the Federation

PTI 100 day plan or their 5 year manifesto disregards the principles of federalism where powers are
distributed between the centre and the provinces. Whether it is the local government or health and education,
PTI government at the centre is recklessly encroaching on the jurisdiction of provincial government. In one
instance, even their allies the Balochistan members of the parliament voiced their concern saying that they
feared the centre had made agreements on Balochistan resources without consulting the stakeholders.

THEME 3: REVITALISING ECONOMIC GROWTH

The Government promised a 10-point plan to revitalize the economy, including jobs, houses, reenergizing
industry and the small and medium enterprises, and putting on track the Public Sector Enterprises - PSEs.
However there is not only no plan, the government has unleashed a reign of economic warfare on the people
by slapping price hikes especially of utilities upon them creating a tsunami of inflation.

1. 10million Jobs: A Hollow Slogan

The promise of “unveiling Pakistan’s most ambitious job creation strategy to create 10 million jobs across
five years, has so far been nothing but a hollow slogan. Not only that there is no strategy in sight after 3
months, people are being deprived of jobs by ordering bulldozing of shops and commercial projects.

2. 50lakh Houses: Naya Pakistan Housing Scam

In the 100 day plan, one of the most ambitious target was to announce a policy framework to launch 50 lakh
houses. As with most other targets, government hastily launched the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme
with little thinking leading to long queues of people thronging the Nadra offices. Now as hundred days a
nearing to a close, the PTI is taking U-turns and rethinking policy, design and even on how to implement the
plan as bottlenecks on financing, on land acquisition etc are surfacing.

3. Tourism and Four Destinations

In their 100 day plan, four new destinations were announced with fanfare and a promise to promote tourism.
We have heard nothing on tourism nor seen any tourist sites announced even in their own government in the
KP.

4. Inflation and Electricity, Gas tariffs: Tsunami against the Poor

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Far from revitalizing the economy the first decision of the government was to escalate the gas tariff which
was increased by nearly 143 per cent. This was followed by increase in CNG to 100 rupees per kg up from
84 rupees a kg. CNG is the poor persons fuel, and this increase has led to impact on prices of essential
commodities. As a result of raising of gas, electricity and CNG prices, inflation rose, and is presently the
highest in five years. As our Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says “Das (10) rupai ki roti, Pandra(15) rupai
ka Naan, Wah Ray Imran Khan.”

5. IMF U-Turn

During election speeches Imran Khan vowed that he would commit suicide but would not go to IMF for
more loans. After nearly one and a half months of uncertainty and flip flops the government announced that
it would be going to the IMF to resolve the balance of payments crisis and the current account deficit. The
uncertainty led to a windfall in the stock market leading to a loss of capital of nearly 800billion rupees.

But even this announcement by the Finance Minister was U-turned by the Prime Minister in no time. None
the less the government has entered into negotiations with the IMF but there is no information on the details
of the negotiations except the report from the media.

6. Dollar Rupee Rate: A turbulent economy

The uncertainty and indecisiveness of the government did allow a number of vested interests to make money
as the rupee dipped overnight and lost more than 10 per cent of its value increasing our import bill and our
debt manifold.

7. CPEC Flip Flops

The Adviser for Commerce said that CPEC projects will be halted but then there was a U-turn. Soon
enough, the government retracted and said they are committed to CPEC. We are still not sure which of the
two is PTI government policy. The visit to China only brought more MOUs making it unclear as to what
governments commitment towards CPEC really is.

8. Austerity Measures: Gimmicks and Trickery

The Government spent endless time and money immediately after coming into power to put into effect their
objective of austerity drive. But these actions bordered on ridiculous acts involving journalists being allowed
access into the Prime Ministers House and making recordings of toilets and bathtubs there. This ridiculing of
a State House was not only a shameless gimmickry it also humiliated the Prime Minister’s Office.

The Prime Minister decided to auction the vehicles in the Prime Minister’s House, and sadly did not even
spare the eight buffaloes which were presented to the previous Prime Minister. He announced to convert the
Prime Minister’s house to a university but himself simply moved to a smaller building of the Prime Minister
House which was allotted to the Military Secretary.

Similar gimmicks were witnessed in the Governors’ houses as these were opened to the public, but after
passing of the first few days it was business as usual and the PTI government conveniently forgot its pledges
to convert these places to universities, and museums.

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 9. Swiss Accounts and the mysterious $200bn

Imran Khan and his team quoted a figure of $200bn ad nauseum which they claimed with certainty was
hidden away in Swiss banks by Pakistani clients. They promised that they would recover this amount at one
stroke and all the fiscal problems of the country would wither away.

However they would not quote the source when asked stating that the previous government had given this
figure. Even after coming to power, they continued to use this number but had no idea on the sources, nor
the institutions that could trace this amount. It turned out in due course that this amount was a conjecture
and not based on facts. And within a month, this mantra of 200bn accounts faded away.

In the first cabinet meeting, Minister Finance Asad Umar promised a task force to recover this money from
foreign accounts. Within weeks they went back on their words and admitted that perhaps this was not likely.

10. PTI's ‘PMLN’ Status Quo mini-budget

When in opposition PTI rejected the federal budget using the argument that the PMLN Government did not
have the legitimacy to pass the budget of the whole year when there were here for only a couple of months
and that this should be left to the incoming government. However the so called mini-budget laid before the
parliament in September as simply an amendment of the previous Finance bill 2018 but without providing a
new document for receipts and expenditures which a new budget should ordinarily do. In addition, the
Finance bill amendments maintained a status quo on the tax policy of PMLN especially of indirect taxation in
the form of withholding taxes. In fact the only major amendment they made to this budget was a 250bn cut
in development expenditure. So the so-called mini budget was a continuity of the PMLN and a U-turn on
their previous position.

11. PSE Revival, Attack on Pakistan Radio and Utility Stores

While the government promised revival Public Sector Enterprises particularly the Steel Mills, and the PIA
there is no plan in sight of their revival or resurgence. But on coming to power PTI attacked other public
sector companies like the Radio Pakistan and the Utility Stores, threatening their closure and forcing their
employees on the streets in their first 100 days.

THEME 4: AGRICULTURAL REFORMS AND WATER CONSERVATION

PTI promised an agriculture emergency, increase access to subsidized finance, launching plans to increase
milk and meat production. But the only gift they have given to the farmer is to take away their only subsidy
to farm inputs and increased the prices of DAP and urea which coupled with a water crisis threatens the
livelihoods of the farmers.

There is also no commitment in sight to providing subsidized inputs, or credit, nor any facility to promote
agriculture as they had previously promised. Government promised to import the fertilizer in November,
but where is the fertilizer?

1. Agriculture Emergency and Access to Finance: Unfulfilled Promise

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PTI promised to launch an agriculture emergency to increase profitability by launching an agriculture policy.
They further promised to optimize subsidy programs, promising crop-mix besides other programmes.

In hundred days of their rule, there was little mention of agriculture or farmers. In fact reversing their
commitment to profitability, the government transferred inflationary cost to the farmers by increasing cost of
fertilizers and phosphates by nearly one-third making agricultural business uneconomical.

Contrary to promoting access to credit and finance to farmers the rising cost of inputs placed additional
burden to the farmers.

2. Transforming Agriculture Produce and Revamping Livestock Sector

Government’s 100-day plan initiative to both transform the agriculture produce and introduce a programme
to revamp livestock sector remains unfulfilled.

3. Upgrade and Implement National Water Policy: No Policy in Sight

Far from upgrading and implementing the National Water policy of the previous government, the present
government has miserably failed to address the water needs of the country or seem even ready to face the
lethal crisis of water shortage. Instead the government strategy seems to be to put this urgent issue on the
backburner.

4. Crowdfunding DiamerBhasha Dam

In his second PTV style address, PM Imran Khan announced to build the dam by collecting donations taking
forward the idea floated by the Chief Justice of Pakistan. As the only public service work he has ever done is
by collecting donations and private funds, this was to be expected. But what was surprising is that he actually
believed that 1500bn rupee project could be made by donations. A project of national importance ideally
needs commitment to raise funds through taxes but PTI government’s approach towards nation building by
appealing for donations is foolhardy and borders on the bizarre.

THEME 5: REVOLUTIONISE SOCIAL SERVICES

PTI promised to revolutionize social services, transform health and education, expand social safety net by
expanding the BISP, champion women development, announce clean drinking water plan for every citizen,
and champion green growth.

Although in 100 days there is a revolution in rising costs, but we do not see any revolution in social services.
In fact, the only public-sector program for the poor the Benazir Income Support Program faced negligence
in the first 100 days. There is also no anti-poverty agenda, or any social service agenda from the government
except a few tents for the homeless, no visible effort has been made to offset the pressure on the people as a
result of inflation.

1. Health and Education: Attack on the 18th Amendment

PTI proposed a step by step plan to transform and depoliticise health and education. Further, they promised
to extend its program for health insurance card which was provided in the KP to other provinces as well. We

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did not see nor hear any step by step plans. Except a National Curriculum Council the only steps in
education are retrogressive as the government froze HEC allocations for this year and many public sector
universities are likely to face financial crisis as a result.

2. Benazir Income Support Program: Slowing Down

In the 100days the only initiative the PTI government took in this anti-poverty program was to appoint a
chairperson. Other than that BISP is now subject to delays and so far any innovation or enhancement has yet
to be seen as promised in the plan.

3. Women’s development: Least of the Priorities

Although women have comprised the backbone of their support, PTI has unfortunately only used women to
fill its public meetings and now in the parliament, the quorum. The 100-day plan promise was merely to
champion women’s development but we have neither seen nor heard Naya Pakistan ‘change makers’ even
pay that lip service to women’s agenda.

4. Clean Drinking Water: Appropriating Municipal Functions?

Not only has PTI promised change at the central level they have also promised change in subjects that fall in
municipal services not realizing that these are not functions of central government but of provinces. Of
course it is possible for the centre to work towards this agenda by using the Council of Common Interest but
the government cannot promise these without understanding Pakistan’s federal structure. It is clear that PTI
has no idea of how Pakistan is governed and many of its U-turns will be taken because of this shallow
understanding of distribution of powers in Pakistan's multi-tiered federal system.

THEME 6: ENSURING NATIONAL SECURITY

In this chapter, PTI has again reaffirmed the most important issue in Pakistan’s foreign policy – that it is
inextricable with the country’s national security. Although national security dimension should and does
inform the foreign policy, a country’s foreign policy is grounded in a country’s national interests
encompassing economy, trade, and many other facets of a country’s. By inserting the foreign policy agenda
within the paradigm of national security, PTI government has confirmed our fears that the national security
state model will not only continue but will be strengthened.

1. Distorting Institutional Structure

From whatever we understood from the jargon in their plan, PTI aimed to strengthen the Foreign Ministry
and expand its coordination with the Prime Minister’s office implying perhaps the age-old understanding that
the foreign ministry was being run from ‘elsewhere’. But assuming that foreign ministry is a part and parcel of
the national security apparatus is admitting and agreeing to the status quo.

2. Pakistanis regional and global relevance

Increasing and expanding global relevance was the main objective of the PTI plan on foreign affairs. But in
these hundred days, the PM missed the opportunity to address on only major world forum that took place in
this period, the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA and went on a begging bowl mission to Saudi

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Arabia instead. Besides we don’t want to repeat the disastrous phone calls and letters to various countries
which caused us unnecessary embarrassment and badly exposed PTI government's naive approach to
handling foreign affairs.

3. Leverage foreign policy to expand the economy

PTI’s U-turns on Foreign visits: the Begging Bowl Mission to Beijing and Riyadh

In one of the first of the press briefings the information minister Fawad Chaudhry announced that the Prime
Minister Imran Khan will not undertake any foreign visits in the first three months. In the next 100 days we
saw four U-turns to this commitment. The Prime Minister made U-turns to Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Malaysia
and China, and except for Saudi Arabia, no gains were achieved in resolving our balance of payments crisis.

Undiplomatic Speeches

In both China and Malaysia, PM Imran Khan demeaned the office of the Prime Minister by denigrating
Pakistan publically in an international forum.

4. A National Security Organisation, A Non-Starter

The PTI promised a National Security Organisation, a promise yet to be fulfilled despite passing of its
100days. Although the logic of this fancy set up is not clear.

5. Internal Insecurity

The Prime Minister chose to remain the Minister for Interior but was found badly wanting in responding to
the incidents that threatened the internal security of the country as for instance:

Appeasement with the protestors in the aftermath of AsiaBibi judgement

In his address on television, Imran Khan promised to come down with a strong hand on those who
challenged the state in the aftermath of the Asia Bibi judgement. However within days there was a U-turn
and there was an appeasement document with those who not only challenged the writ of the state they also
threatened the judges and the army chief.

Tahir Dawar Incident

The example of SP Tahir Dawar demonstrates that no one is in control in the interior ministry. If a key
officer could be kidnapped and taken through two provinces into a foreign territory, it shows that the interior
minister is not fit for the job.

THEME 7: ENSURING IMPLEMENTATION

Finally, PTI is not only overzealous in its 100-day plan, promising rivers of milk and honey, they are also over
pretentious in their methods.

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In this section PTI promised a team of ‘change leaders’, and a government of zero corruption. But the actual
reality of the so called change leaders is before the nation, as is the promise of zero corruption:

1. The Odd Change Leaders of Imran Khan: Keep the Change

The ‘Change Leaders’ of Imran Khan comprises the illustrious Fawad Chaudhry who cannot speak a single
sentence without using abusive language. It further comprises of Faisal Vawda who seemingly has hidden
fantasies of being a Commando or John Rambo as he appeared in a very sensitive situation donning a
bulletproof jacket and a gun. This hall of fame also includes Azam Swati who picked a fight with his poor
neighbours over a cow and had an IG suspended on delay to answer his call and of course the ever present
Bukhari for whom the country's ECL law was violated. Other change leaders were erstwhile members of
General Musharraf’s cabinet and do not inspire any confidence or public trust.

2. Prime Minister as Tabdeeli Khan

The 100-day Plan promised none other than Imran Khan to lead the change and agenda of reform. But the
mantra of Tabdeeli was short-changed and Tabdeeli has only become a hoax within which PTI has indulged
in politics of gimmickry and expediency.

This change now is symbolized by trespassing cows, buffalo auctions, and PMs dog riding the helicopter.
Prime Minister has not just been seen to not lead any change, he’s been seen to enjoy the trappings of power
– the helicopter rides, changing the cops, and ostentatious foreign visits. A Prime Minister who justifies his
policy reversals as a good quality has to be pitied, for policy reversals more often than not are signs of weak
conviction, and weaker will.

3. The Most Opaque Government

In their 100 day plan, PTI promised the most transparent government ever. So far the government is opaque
and even shady. Transparency in governance is best achieved through oversight. The best oversight
institution is the parliament which the present government has rendered ineffective as no committees are
notified.

Further PTI Government has not informed us how Prime Minister’s sister Aleema Khan’s case has been
dealt with. No information has been released on the various visits abroad of the Prime Minister who has not
bothered to come to the parliament in these three months.

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