Nation’s spokesman or devil’s advocate?

[Jolie]

Re: Nation’s spokesman or devil’s advocate?

@Doppleganger

Btw, my quip was that there should be more rigorous process by which politicians come up the ladder which certainly hasn’t happend for Imran. Perhaps, if he was seasoned then the verbal diarrhea that happens like we should negotiate with taliban while standing on the dead bodies of shiites in quetta would not happen. Call me an idealist but Pakistan has come to a point that andhon may kaana raja won’t even be able to drag this country along. Taliban to education to strategic alignment to water issues you name it require very firm and bold rethink.

Political Parties in Pakistan are basically either family businesses or local mafia groups. Imran could’ve been a PM of Pakistan ten years ago or at least a most senior minister or even PCB a Chief if he was political savvy. He’s been one man army for so long that it’s os easy to make him fall for baits. Rigorous process would make sense if in Pakistan, political parties were National Institutions. Sadly Imran had no already set up platform, he’d not come through established parties like Labour or Conservatives where he could expect a large network of people to take care of him and guide him (look how Conservatives came to Obama’s rescue when he went quite overboard with his naive hunky dory Foreign Policies). As far as his welfare policies and humanitarian work is concerned, he’s stop on, but it would’ve helped if he had senior and experienced bench of ex Foreign Office personnel advising him.