Will the political weather change in Pakistan  ? 

I have said in my article below that the political weather is changing in India :

But will it change in Pakistan  ? 

Presently, and in the near future, that looks unlikely, since the country seems to be under the iron grip of the Pakistan army, especially after the events of 9th May, 2023, following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Everyone in Pakistan seems terrified of the Pakistan army, which has carted off thousands of opponents and dissenters ( through the police, which loyally obeys the army’s orders ) into dungeons, where they have been languishing for years in horrible conditions. 

But there is a saying ” A single spark can set the prairie on fire “.

In India the sway of the ruling BJP seemed absolute and without any effective challenge since 2014 when it came to power. In fact it seemed to be increasing when West Bengal, a hitherto bastion of secularism, too came under its rule. 

But a single spark ( the inane remark in court of the Chief Justice of India that the unemployed youth are like cockroaches ) set the political prairie on fire in India. The huge amount of fuel, in the form of record and rising unemployment in India, the skyrocketing prices of food and other essential commodities, the appalling level of child malnutrition ( every second Indian child is malnourished, according to Global Hunger Index ), widespread corruption etc had already accumulated, and it only required a single spark to set it on fire. 

In Pakistan, too, conditions are similar to those in India, which means a large stockpile of fuel ( in the form of huge socio-economic evils like massive unemployment, soaring prices of food, fuel, and other essential commodities, widespread corruption etc ) has accumulated, waiting for the spark which will ignite it. What will be that spark is impossible to predict, but this much can be said with a fair degree of certainty that it will appear sooner than later. 

Many in Pakistan may think that the omnipotent Pakistan army will nip any opposition in the bud. What they forget is that a tiger can kill a prey, it cannot kill a swarm of mosquitoes. An army can fight another army, it cannot fight the masses once the latter get organized. 

In Pakistan the terrible socio-economic condition of the masses, which has made life almost unbearable, has reached boiling point. The explosion is not far off, awaiting a spark to ignite the fuel, and then the soldiers will run helter skelter rather than face the righteous wrath of the people.