Tahirul Qadri's long march

[Amal]

Re: Tahirul Qadri’s long march

@Ali_Syed

I think in all of this PTI has lost, as their stance was not clear till the very end they were not clear if they were going to be a part of the long march or not. The day before yesterday imran asked the youth to be prepared for tsunami march and that he can issue the directives at any time. The next day when the joint opposition vowed to not support unconstitutional steps PTI backed off. With the result some PTI supporters were also a part of the long march yesterday. There was a big divide in the party leaders and supporters too on the question of joining he long march or not. What impact it had made on the party we will come to know in the future.

A totally different consequence might have befallen the nation had PTI become a part of the long march. Imran is still taunted for his support for Musharraf’s referendum; had the army intervened on the pretext of impending insurrection, the PTI would have been banished from Pakistan’s political map for good. PTI’s stake in the democratic system is far greather than PAT’s.

Qadri’s long march was one of the most toughest Catch-22 the PTI had faced ever. There were certainly two sets of opinion within the party — just as there were pro and anti sentiments about the march throughout the country — but an early end to the march, and a rather trifling one, would help the party to get back to business as usual.

PTI should now proactively try to make a bloc with PAT and JI to cash in on the zeal the long march has created. Though in the long run I do not see this government actualizing any significant point it agreed in the long march declaration, thus benefiting the PAT or the PTI, but still an opening is made for both the parties as their agendas are anyway fully compatible with each other.