


They ensured that transport was denied to PTI voters and ensured that their movement was hampered and disrupted.

They shamelessly ordered the arrests of prominent PTI leaders, arranged for others to be attacked on the streets and yet banned many from entering the province. The Provincial government posted people of their choice to posts with intent to interfere in the election process and in violation of the defined protocol. The living were declared dead and denied the right to vote while the dead were declared alive and voted with impunity. They fiddled with the voter lists and tried their utmost to make it as difficult as possible for the PTI voters to cast their vote. The Election Commission conveniently looked the other way so that the many violations that were duly reported were neither investigated nor addressed. Never before has a hostile government been allowed to chair a government, illegally through a judicial license, and permitted to conduct an election of this nature and magnitude where a conflict of interest was so blatantly served. Read More: Congratulations PTI for learning to stand on your own feet Imran was proven right with his Statesman approach of avoiding physical conflict and instead galvanizing people into a force to be reckoned with. People such as me looked for conflict and confrontation and when we did not find any we were disappointed and disillusioned. I regret to say I too proved to be amongst those smaller people when I could find no light at the end of the tunnel I gave up. He was not flustered, remained unruffled and was not intimidated by the one-sided show.Ī smaller person would have wilted in the face of the array of State machinery and Government apparatus aligned against him. He displayed no frustration during this ordeal of an election where nerves were tested and resolves challenged. He was unflinching in the face of deceit, treachery and betrayal not losing his composure nor his sense of decency. He stared down all the elements against him – alone. So Imran Khan stood his ground and made history.
