Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi has convinced the United Nations to recognize Islamophobia, while he complacently allows jihadis to wreak havoc in his own country with absolute impunity every day.
Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians live in Pakistan in uncertainty and under a cloud of terror, and Khan’s tenure as prime minister has not proved to hold any silver lining for them. Instead, their plight has only worsened. They continue to be demonized to the extent that Pakistani air has become practically unbreathable for religious minorities.
The former cricketer’s reputation as a Westernized sportsman and “playboy” initially deceived the world into believing he represented a liberal and a more contemporary vision for Pakistan. However, hailing bin Laden as a martyr, attributing rape to women’s attire, and blaming rape victims for their “inviting behavior” has exposed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief as the Muslim hardliner that he always was under his Western garb.
Now that the fate of Khan’s government seems uncertain and his days as prime minister appear to be numbered, it is worthwhile to consider the Islamist traits he has displayed while in office. Khan might have taken to Twitter to send Pakistan’s dwindling Hindu population his good wishes on Hindu festivals, but intolerance towards religious minorities, the abduction and forced conversion of Hindu girls, and mob violence against religious minorities ran unrestrained while he has been prime minister.
Khan was more concerned with preaching to India about secularism and giving sermons about minority rights to France, all while Muslim mobs kept killing non-Muslims for alleged blasphemy.
The agenda is to annihilate religious minorities by taking their women by force, converting them to Islam, and producing Muslim babies from them, as the toothless government looks on. In the face of media and social media pressure, even if officials reluctantly arrest some men, the perpetrators are rarely sentenced to substantial penalties or punishments.
Khan is a fanboy of Turkey’s autocratic, anti-Semitic and sexist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. So it is no surprise that he would want to emulate these traits as the prime minister of one of the most jihad-inclined Islamic countries.
The Khan government has propelled Pakistan’s irreversible descent into obscurantism and brazen bigotry. Like his predecessors, Khan will most likely be dethroned by the high-handed military of his country, leaving a legacy of blood behind. His “Naya Pakistan” will ultimately plummet into to a dark abyss.