The PTI Government and Pakistan’s Policies

Fozia Khan
2 min readApr 15, 2021

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Pakistan till its beginning has been struggling with internal as well as external policy making and popicy lines.

The objective Resolution paved the ways and Pakistan; in democratic as well as martial law governments, tried to legislate and execute accordingly with successes as well as failures.

As far current government 'PTI' is concerned, it seems confused about whether to carry a neutral or Islamic opinion all along its policies. The confusion that seems is from the leader and chairman of PTI, between his acts and policies and his speeches and plans.

Plans of PTI government

Riyasat.i.Madina was the main motto of Imran Khan. After coming to power in July 2018, Prime Minister Imran Khan has claimed many a times during public speeches that the country under him has entered the final phase to build Pakistan on the principles of Riyasat-i-Madina. The definition he offers is

a society based on justice, compassion and the dignity of our human beings

The Questions left Undisclosed are

How the political power will be managed in such a society?

How will the resources be distributed in such a society?

How will the welfare state get money to spend on welfare activities when most of it is used for military purposes?

How people could be made active politically, stronger financially, neutral to other religions and races and sects, and stable emotionally..?

Both Imran Khan and the traditional Ulema in Pakistan seems to be silent on these questions.

Contradictory concepts which have brought policies to a vague position

Riyasat.i.Madina was having a system based on Qura'an and Sunnah as a sole source of law.

Parliamentary, presidential or restricted democracy as needed according to the circumstances was there,

A well defined constitution based on Islamic laws,
System of justice,
Transparency and merit
Responsible governance
Good relations with opposition
System of distribution of resources,
Character of Political leaders well defined

All seems lacking in Khan's definition of the Welfare state i.e present day Riyasat.i.Madina.

Still Pakistan is at chaos: sectarian wars, economic destruction, social wars, immorality, unequal distribution of resources, no good relationship with foreign states, no cordial relations of federal government and provinces. Neither is Pakistan acting as being on strict Islamic model, nor the one it was before 2018.

Can Khan make a redistribution of resources where welfare budgets would exceed the defence budget by 20-25% as was in Riyasat.i.Madina?

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Fozia Khan

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