…on Imran’s win?
Life was so much simpler on the cricket fields, wasn’t it? Your Eyewitness is talking, of course, about Imran Khan’s evident victory in Pakistan’s elections. In 1992, for instance, no one doubted Pakistan’s victory in the Cricket World Cup final under Imran’s captaincy. After he and the iconic Javed Miandad had stabilised and then set a solid platform, the target of 250 was too much for England.
His announced victory in the elections, however, is being challenged by the incumbent parties as being rigged by the military in Imran’s favour. But in that accusation alone, there lies an incredible story. The Pakistani military intervene early in politics – with General Aube Khan arrogating the presidency to himself in 1958. To legitimise their foray into politics, they adopted the promulgation of an increasingly through and through Islamic State as their mission.
So how come the army’s now being accused of finagling elections on behalf of Imran, whom the world knew as the flamboyant, playboy cricketer? It was a very well-earned reputation! Coming from an aristocratic Pakistani family, he attended Oxford University, and even captained its cricket team. He went on, of course, to become one of the world’s great cricketing all-rounders – and captain, to boot!
He was very much ‘a man about town’ in London, and after his World Cup heroics, when he married Jemima, the blond, socialite daughter of British Billionaire James Goldsmith, it broke female hearts across the cricketing world!! But returning to Pakistan, even though an ostensible, typical liberal, he increasingly turned to Islam, and eventually formed a political party – Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) – that pushed those values. By then he’d divorced twice, and was finally married to an older, spiritually inclined mother of five.
As an old fan of Imran’s, your Eyewitness is very positive that while the military will initially have much influence over Khan’s government, once the old captain gets his feet on the ground, he’ll increasingly become his own man. His entire career in cricket – and now in politics – has to have given him an unshakeable confidence in his own instincts. Imran has an opportunity to return Pakistan to the path of an authentic Islamic modernity, which can show the western world that such a notion is not an oxymoron.
Next door, India, from which it fissioned to be birthed, will inevitably loom large on Imran’s agenda – especially as it relates to Kashmir. He begins, however, with a tremendous amount of goodwill from that country’s cricket-crazy populace. Such sentiments are not to be trifled with.
With the incumbent Government rejecting the results, the next month will be crucial for Imran Khan to demonstrate his leadership skills.
Off the cricket field!
…on Broomes?
Your Eyewitness thinks it’s ironic that so many persons have their buktas and drawers in a knot over some comments – alleged to be “insults” — made by some obscure NY Times reporter, while “I is” Broomes is allowed to get away with “Amazonia-gate”! Broomes didn’t only “insult” two real-life Guyanese by allegations – but was shown on tape to be lying through her teeth on the two security guards, who were only doing their job!!
As far as we know, no Guyanese has been actually physically hurt by the NY Times’ allegations, but those two guards were actually imprisoned for 16 hours while Broomes wolfed down her Chinese fried rice with not even a twinge of remorse! In the state-owned, taxpayer-funded Chronic, Broomes just received a full-page coverage of what was a disingenuously-designed image-boosting stunt – helping to rebuild someone’s burnt-out home!!
So the arrogance and inhumanity of Broomes to those two poor guards is now swept under the rug? What happened to that inquiry we were promised?
Oh Judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason!!
…to challenge Amna’s comprehension?
Does Lincoln Lewis really think it’s a lack of “comprehension” that former headmistress, and now PNC Chief Whip, Amna Ally, didn’t support the Labour Ministry motion?
Granger’s PNC’s neo-liberalism doesn’t have any place for labour!!
