Islamabad, Pakistan: Contrary to the claims of Imran Khan that he is against the element of heredity in politics, the PTI’s provincial cabinet in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa speaks otherwise.
While forgetting the party’s long-time workers and those who have endured the hardships of imprisonment, the party has accommodated relatives and family members of important leaders and has again neglected weather-beaten workers.
The problem with PTI is that it considers wrongdoing as right for itself while it is a great sin for others. Recently, the government has been formed after the peaceful and transparent elections of February 8, 2024, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Imran Khan, who considers himself to be a wise man, made a surprising decision to appoint Ali Amin Gandapur, one of the protagonists of the May 9 events, as the Chief Minister – the same Ali Amin Gandapur, who is accused of many cases of terrorism and also accused of his involvement in stripping an orphan girl naked and forced her to march in the local market.
For the formation of the cabinet, Ali Amin Gandapur met Imran Khan in Adiala jail where decisions were made about the province’s cabinet. PTI has always been considered hereditary politics wrong and used to taunt Maryam Nawaz as well as Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as products of heredity politics. But now if we look at the cabinet announced for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, only the relatives of the senior leaders of this particular political party will be seen in it.
Arshad Ayub, the cousin of the central leader of a certain political party, Umar Ayub, is included in the provincial cabinet. In contrast, provincial minister Aqibullah is the younger brother of the central leader Asad Qaiser.
Similarly, Shahram Turkai’s younger brother Faisal Turkai also managed to make a place in the provincial cabinet, while former federal minister Noorul Haq Qadri’s nephew Adnan Qadri has also become a part of the Pakhtunkhwa cabinet and Khalid Latif Marwat, the younger brother of central leader Sher Afzal Marwat, has succeeded in becoming the special assistant of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, and thus the narrative of the inherent politics of a particular political party has been “turned away”.
Imran Khan hardly missed an opportunity in his political journey, in which he did not criticize his opponents on the issue of hereditary politics. He had developed this pattern over the years in which he did not stop his political opponents from slandering the politics of inheritance and through this narrative he misled the public.
But now when the particular party got an opportunity to end the politics of inheritance in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khan felt free to follow their opponents.
