This short article is a part of three series on Imran Khan—the man, the country, and his follies. If I divide Imran Khan into three structural portions: The leader – The scholastics – The body; we can evaluate the man, the country, and his follies respectively.
In this part, we will evaluate The Man—The Leader. Imran Khan was and will remain Pakistan’s blessings. His impact on Pakistan and upon the world leaders is immense. The Pakistani people and the world leaders—Middle Eastern leaders, were eventually empowered with Khan’s sense of dignity.
The people were given the realization to think to live with dignity. The country was given dignity from his invisible presence (his aura) and through established means, to become a better society.
His aura strengthened the Pakistani institution of hope that lives strong through the institution of Islam. The hope to fight corruption, and a hope to live with dignity are Khan’s prominent themes. Dignity is a social, economic and a military posturing concept.
The established means, was his concept of modeling Pakistan after Riyasit-e-Medina (the Khalifate.) I studied Riyasit-e-Medina through a determined Khan. I observed the following:
Khan seems to fail to articulate what Riyasit-e-Medina looks like. I contemplated, perhaps there was no need for such articulation because an educated Muslim is expected to know the attributes found in the Khalifate. The attributes in Riyasit-e-Medina were—the state was erected on the foundation of justice as a means to offer a social welfare policy.
The problem with my interpretation is, the Riyasit-e-Medina quickly becomes vague and wide from other interpretations. A domestic implication is that Khan’s message cannot gain a strategic depth to address domestic challenges. On the international front, Riyasit-e-Medina turns problematic too.
However, Khan was not challenged by his opposition and his critics on the principle of Riyasit-e-Medina because the corrupt opposition and the critics could not find an alternate convincing vision. Khan’s Riyasit-e-Medina, gave free medical health to Pakistanis at no direct cost to them. Quite frankly, Khan has challenged the West to duplicate his feet.
Khan, made the reading of Quran with translation mandatory in the schooling system. The benefit. The first three pages has the ultimate wisdom for humanity. These pages, has means to a complete financial system for an individual and for the country. Imagination to live with dignity from financial independence begins in these pages.
These two aspects are just a few that were the beginnings of his building a powerhouse: Riyasit-e-Medina. However, failing to manifest a strategic depth of his vision, it could not overcome the distortion from the wide interpretations. This paragraph takes on a profound meaning when I address Khan from the structural portion of, ‘The Scholastics—The Country.’
Khan as a key note speaker dignified the 48th OIC session (March 2022.) He projected his message to the foreign ministers f the Muslim world. Khan mentioned Riyasit-e-Medina, which is a rebuke of the governments of the monarchies.
His speech was in contrast to the Sharif, that cannot even read from a slip he holds in his hand, and the other—Zardari, was an all-round disgrace to Pakistanis.
Khan’s impact on the world leaders can be noticed in the foreign policy of the Middle Eastern leaders. Khan, in my view is one of the influences on the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia that was lately “rebuked by West, faces dilemma over Russia and China.”
Today, PM Khan faces a vote of no confidence in the parliament. The man, the country and his follies may provide a look into the capabilities of his person in a decadent system – Alternately, a ruthless and a benevolent order.