GAME SET AND MATCH

 GAME SET AND MATCH

 

LT COL NOEL ELLIS

06/II/2024

 

Imagine you are playing a Tennis match. However, this match starts with a ‘set score’ of ‘love five’ and ‘game score’ of ‘love forty’. The only advantage is that you are serving.

The match referee is biased and has penalised you for ‘foot faults’ of all the other things. The linesmen are biased too and have given your ball ‘out’ when it was on the line a couple of times. The third umpire couldn’t do a thing.

The spectators are on your side. Knowing that you are capable of winning the match from here, they keep cheering you. The security gets nasty and muzzles them up. Those who got agitated and attacked the security were arrested and put in jail. You too were warned of the consequences, if your fans were not kept under check.

Your coach, physiotherapist, PR manager and all others supporting you were already under house arrest. Your present wife is under oath to keep her mouth shut or else she too goes to jail. You raise your voice; it falls on deaf ears. Your protest goes vain. You predict that you will be ‘made to lose’ this match and your prediction comes true.

The Umpire tells you where and how hard to serve. They also tell you whether you can return the ball to the opponent's court. You are fitter and much smarter than your opponent, but you are accused of taking drugs. 

It is ‘game, set and match’. You served well but the opponent who was out of the circuit since more than four years returned to play. He got all his ‘bans’ quashed by the umpires and referees. You stood no choice but to keep playing till you lost and paid a penalty imposed on you for unfair play.

You were put behind bars for being supported by a rowdy crowd. The match got over prematurely. It was time for you to rot in jail. You are charged for everything under the sun.

You ask for lawyers; you are denied the one of your choice. They give you a tiny prison cell to rot. You are just Qaidi number 804. You look up to Allah. That’s all you can do.

Isn’t this situation befitting the Ex PM of Pakistan Imran Khan. Wasn’t his ousting known? Moreover, there is not one PM in that country who has not been jailed.

Charges galore await Imran, plus his Vazeere Kharja and even wife Bushra Begum. You never know if the ‘hangman’s noose’ would be awaiting him. What a pitiable state that country is in!

 In 2019, I penned an article called ‘Chaddo Khan Saab’. It was in Punjabi, which the general public of Pakistan understands and addressed to Mr Imran Khan, where I had warned him of the consequences of taking pangas with the “establishment”. I had also warned him of the consequences of needling India through the so-called ‘jihadis’ and ‘pau kilo’ nuclear bombs.

Imran paid for being forthright and honest. Imagine his wife too has been put behind bars for not staying separated for the stipulated time before re-tying the knot (Nikah) with Mr Imran Khan as per Shariya law. A fine of 5 lakhs plus a seven-year term has been imposed besides more for other offences.

Would these terms be separate or run consequently, I am not aware. There were more than 150 cases against him. The way things are going, he might be jailed for another 100 years. His political career has been sealed. His ‘Bat’ , the symbol of PTI, the party he had formed more than two decades ago, has been taken away from him. It is basically game over.

His political opponent, who was in exile, returned on the condition that cases against him be withdrawn and pardoned. With things well settled abroad, they will be the first ones to run away from Pakistan at the slightest danger to their lives or ‘lively hood’. The latter refers to 'politics' their politicians are good at.

The deep state will dictate how to govern from behind the scenes as usual. One step which deviates from their line and this ‘shareef man’ goes to jail. The military surely rules the roost.

Here was a man, who still has a popular support base cannot stand in elections due on 08 Feb 24. His loyalists are standing as ‘independents’. However, the ballot will go in the favour of the candidate already ‘decided’ by the ‘Khaki’s’. Irrespective where you stamp the ballot paper, the vote will go to ‘Noon League’ is already written on the wall.

Hopefully, people of Pakistan will vote wisely. If not a win, “PTI” can they still be the main opposition party or will it be game set and match for Imran? I wonder!!!!!!!

 

JAI HIND

© ® NOEL ELLIS