18/08/2014
Imran Khan's Masterclass
Against Nawaz Sharif That
The Entire Nation Failed To
Understand: As soon as Imran Khan
announced his Civil
Disobedience movement
the entire opposition and
twitterati erupted into a
tirade of jokes asking questions such as, how
would PTI supporters not
pay GST on milk, bread and
other groceries. Or that if
they wont pay the utility
bills the utility services would be disconnected
and so on. However, none of these so-
called intellectuals were
able to understand that
what this Civil
Disobedience movement is
aiming to do is declare Nawaz regime a dictatorial
regime and hence render
all foreign debts that the
regime would contract as
unenforceable. As, I have
already explained that a debt becomes illegitimate
if a) the regime that
contracts it is despotic
and/or dictatorial and b) it
was not spent on the
betterment of the nation. The entire long march is
based on the premise that
Nawaz Sharif and his party
rigged the 2013 General
elections and hence the
regime is dictatorial and illegitimate. Before
announcing the Civil
Disobedience movement
Imran Khan went into
elaborate details of how
the Sharif has previously used foreign debt to fill his
coffers. What Imran was
trying to do here was to
establish a case that the
foreign debts which this
regime would incur would not be spent on the nation
but would rather be
laundered out of the
country to power the
business of the Sharif
dynasty. In simpler words Imran
has told the entire world
and specially the foreign
lenders aka (IMF, World
Bank and Asian
Development Bank) that any loans incurred by the
Sharif regime would not
be enforceable on the
future governments of
Pakistan. To make it
abundantly clear to our intellectual elite, Imran is
telling the foreign lenders
that if he ever came to
power, he wont pay back
the loans that the Sharif
regime would borrow. This means that the foreign
lenders has only one
option left before them
and that is to decline all
future loans to the Sharif
regime. Since, the Sharif regime relies heavily on
foreign lending to finance
its budget, the move
would cripple the
government and will bring
it down to its knees without any bloodletting
on the streets. I once read a quotation
that Brilliance hits a target
that no one can hit, Genius
hits a target that no one
can see. Imran's masterstroke
against Sharif is such an
act of genius that the
entire nation is unable to
see the target that it has
hit. All that PTI and its horde of social media
jihadi's now need to do is
explain this to the entire
nation that: Since, we consider the
Sharif regime as
illegitimate, all foreign
debts that it would incur
would be illegitimate
odious debt and hence would not be paid by the
future Pakistani
governments. Imran Khan himself needs
to do a better job and
explain this to the foreign
lenders that since the
Sharifs always loot and
plunder these loans for their personal gains, future
PTI/Pakistani government
would consider the foreign
loans received by the
Sharif regime as
illegitimate. Once this is made abundantly clear to
both the national and
international audiences, it
does not matter an iota if
the civil disobedience
movement fails to reduce the amount of taxes
collected at the National
level.
