What next? |
The test of any policy initiative, even if it involves showing an elected government out, is to ask the question: What next? In the case of K-P, where the PTI was shown the door, this question has assumed even greater relevance. In a way, the dissonance between the K-P/PTI and the Centre had been pervasive, and what ensued was the culmination of a long feud, misplaced or not. Whether it could have been avoided with better political management and honest and sincere coordination between the federation and a federating unit remains moot. PTI could have done a better job of its role and function – unless the aim was to only show the federal government down.
A standing threat to its political existence as a party and its government in K-P could have been avoided with a better sense of the dilemma that rode its prospects. From better governance to avoiding the pitfalls of keeping a feud going, there were off-ramps it could have taken. Instead, we have a situation of a drastic breakdown in which no side wins.
One thing is clear, though, that the responsibility to bring the change in K-P now rests with a single authority: the governor, his advisory council, his party, or the Centre that he represents with a single purpose to bring peace to a militarised province where cumulative failures of the past have only wrought strife and turmoil. Terror events in the province have increased manifold – there is a list being circulated from reliable quarters in support of why the intervention was inescapable.
That gives birth to two separate issues emanating from the Governor's rule and Emergency being simultaneously imposed on K-P:........