Meri taraf se ban hi jaye yeh PM aik dafa...kar le yeh bhi apna shauq poora. Aik saal baad jab yehi pak fauj apna qadri ya rizvi lashkar bheji gi Islamabad pe to pata chal jaye ga isse how ruthlessly he's been used as a tissue paper. At that time, someone else will be the new 'messiah'...my bet is on Mustafa Kamal
I respect that you demonstrate a difference of opinion. You are right in having misgivings about GHQ's involvement in political engineering because, in fact, the party you support was originally formed under the watch of an army dictator. Your beloved leader, Nawaz Sharif, was one of the many faces in the clique of sycophants nurtured by Zia. So, by extrapolation, you have reason to believe that every party that is appealing to mass populism is a product of deliberations in a GHQ conference room. Although that might not be the case.
You see, because, Nawaz never had to struggle in his political career. Muhammad Sharif had the right connections in the Zia dictatorship to kickstart his son's political career. Almost overnight, he went from a failed actor/cricketer/businessman to the CM of Punjab. Effectively a pliable pawn for the establishment to vanquish PPP in Punjab.
In contrast, Imran Khan had several easy pathways to take as a politician but he never took them because his was a genuine political struggle. He was offered a place in the king's party by Nawaz himself when he retired from cricket, he turned it down. Instead he formed the PTI in 1996 which failed miserably in next year's elections. He could have given in but he continued opposing the House of Sharif as Nawaz government harassed him and his family with false cases.
After the 2002 elections, he was offered a direct route to the post of PM by the dictator Musharraf. He declined on principle. Despite supporting him at the start (including on WoT), he saw the error of his ways and then opposed him on many forums which culminated in a jail term for him in 2007.
Again he boycotted the 2008 elections on principle while in the APDM alliance, which would have risked the integrity of his dwindling party. Meanwhile, one of the chief architects of the alliance, Nawaz Sharif, fell into the establishment's honey trap and contested the elections.
Then, Imran Khan singlehandedly revived PTI in in the 2013 elections. Despite the systemic irregularities and institutional favoritism stacked against his party, it emerged as the second largest in the country.
You can clearly see, with the contrast between Nawaz and Imran's political histories that who has been the real
ladla and who has been at the forefront of a genuine political struggle in the country.