ONCE again, there is chaos on the streets in Islamabad and beyond. There are people on the roads, communications and life have been disrupted and there is very little information on the news channels. And then, we have two very loud sides to the story — one which feels it has won with people’s power, and the other which tells us only the house wins because it always has. That both are still locked in a never-ending struggle is accepted by neither side.
Even Hollywood is willing to accept the end of a good idea and let popular and long-running shows conclude, but not us. For us, there is never too much of a good or bad thing. And so it is with politics.
So here we are with our longest running soap — the opposition on the roads and the government doing what it does best, ie, pretending it is watching over a functional state and economy. But there are some differences, it seems. Not because the scriptwriters have decided to add a few original touches but because the country and the world have changed.
So on the one hand, there is a party in the opposition which has reaped the benefits of demographic changes, and on the other, we have older, tired parties, which have been at it for too long.
The powers that be seem to have evolved as much as the country and the people have.
The young in PTI think they have discovered people’s power for the first time and can change history by taking to the streets. These........