Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman and Prime Minister Imran Khan stated that the current military leadership has come to terms with the fact that the “regime change experiment has backfired.”
“I’m confident that the new military brass understands that their efforts to change the regime have gone awry,” Khan stated in an interview with Voice of America.
Khan, who was ousted from his position via a no-confidence vote in April of the previous year, emphasized that elected governments must possess both responsibility and authority, and warned that a country’s system will crumble if this balance is not maintained.
“The fundamental principle of power balancing dictates that the elected government, which is accountable to the people through their vote, must also possess the authority to make decisions,” Khan added. The former Prime Minister emphasized that the two concepts, responsibility and authority, are inseparable and a system cannot function if they are not held by the same person.
“A system will not operate effectively if the army chief holds the authority while the Prime Minister bears the responsibility,” Khan stated. When asked about his relationship with the military as a former Prime Minister, Khan explained that all military policies in Pakistan hinge on a single individual.
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