The new Prime Minister has adopted a conciliatory stance in his first speech after his party’s decisive victory
LAHORE: The new Prime Minister, Imran Khan — as media and the masses have been saying lately, given the fact that Khan is closest to making it to the Prime Minister House — has adopted a conciliatory and softened stance in his first speech after his party’s decisive victory in the elections held on July 25. And the PPP has this time again won in Sindh. In any case, it’s not a hung parliament but it is going to be a coalition government, a thing not new in Pakistan.
With the likelihood of the PTI leading the coalition government, the ministries of finance and foreign affairs will likely stay with it. The PPP’s victory in Sindh, which failed to deliver miserably in the province during its uninterrupted rule in the past ten years, has come rather as something unexpected. Perhaps, the outcome of the polls explains the working of the ‘electables’ phenomenon in Sindh province. Where Karachittes have chosen the PTI over the MQM-P and the PSP, in other parts of the province the PPP still holds the sway. Given this situation, economic and social conditions in Sindh are less likely to change at least in the next five years.
Hamid Shahid
Published in The Express Tribune, July 28th, 2018.
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