While talking to Dr Moeed Pirzada Mazhar Abbas senior analyst, columnist said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announcement of launching a movement against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over Panama Papers is a political gamble which, if lost, would spoil his chances in the next general elections.
Mazhar Abbas said that it’s a gamble because if other opposition parties, particularly the PPP and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), did not join Imran, it would be quite difficult for PTI and PAT to do more than what they did in 2014. Both PTI and PAT have apparently not calculated the time factor Eid falling in September and Ashura in October.
It’s a political gamble for Imran on another count also. Imran has also hinted at moving the Supreme Court and has also agreed to join the meeting of the committee on Terms of Reference (TORs) with the government. It’s going to be a do or die situation for the PTI if it loses case in the SC as defeat at the highest court would also mean end of the movement as all parties are bound to accept its final verdict,he added .
Mazhar Abbas said that as a situation appears today, this movement is without any ‘script’ and this match would not be supervised by any neutral umpire.