Economic Reforms without Governance Reforms in Pakistan

Editorial

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Project Imran was launched around 12 years ago, and that the first PTI public meeting (jalsa) in Lahore was also the work of unseen hands.
In a press talk, Khawaja Asif explained in detail how Project Imran was launched around 12 years ago and, while avoiding the use of the word military, he used the phrase “by unseen hands.” The majority of the public interested in politics and the economy considers “Project Imran” a disaster and a nightmare for Pakistan, while the phase that terminated Project Imran was extremely eventful. It exposed the spellbinding of state-sponsored anchors and writers, covert operations by intelligence agencies, overt positions by state-sponsored judicial officers, and the tools used for fixing the situation. Khawaja Asif, without using the word ‘military,’ exposed layer by layer why Project Imran failed.
In Pakistan, hundreds of projects were launched during the last 78 years, including “Project Altaf Hussain,” “Project Nawaz Sharif,” and “Project Imran.” All three brought drastic changes to Pakistani politics and the social fabric. It will take decades to cleanse the garbage they left behind. Khawaja Asif, during his press conference, explained that Nawaz Sharif was jailed and his children went through physical torture and psychological trauma by those who launched Project Imran, and that Faiz Hameed was the focal person for executing all dirty work against politicians, particularly against Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family.
Project Imran Khan was a cliché breaker, and making a mockery of the Constitution, politicians, and Parliament was its core terms of reference. The project was assigned to communicate to the public that all politicians are corrupt and that the parliamentary system had failed to deliver; therefore, a new constitution was needed to replace the parliamentary system with a presidential form of government. Since Project Imran is almost concluded, it has taught several lessons to those who launched it and those who faced it, including the general public. One of the lessons is that the public must not trust media persons, anchors, news analyses, opinions, and commentary articles, and even editorials, because the content can be cooked, driven by motives instead of truth, and media is nothing but a tool of the powerful to spread their message to achieve pre-decided results.
The Project Imran, which heavily depended on mainstream media, particularly electronic media, also taught consumers that media provides whatever the powerful class wishes to spread. Therefore, wasting time and polluting minds by watching electronic media is not only useless but rather dangerous for the cognitive system.