: End of a bromance: Why Pak Armys top brass fell out of love with Imran #IndiaNEWS #International Khan, also chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, has enjoyed the perks of military support

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End of a bromance: Why Pak Armys top brass fell out of love with Imran #IndiaNEWS #International
Khan, also chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, has enjoyed the perks of military support and this was one of the reasons why the opposition parties had called him selected instead of elected Prime Minister of the country.
However, when he became the Prime Minister, his relations with the military establishment took a U-turn, which many say was due to realisation within the military establishment of their miscalculations related to Khan and his capabilities.
Khan was most certainly the blue-eyed boy of the military establishment. He was supported before by the then ISI chief General (Retd) Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who was believed to the mastermind behind the 2014 protest sit-in against Nawaz Sharifs government.
The 2014 PTI Dharna was the brainchild of the former ISI chief. General Pasha had vowed to oust Nawaz Sharif, Khawaja Asif and Chaudhry Nisar at all costs, Javed Hashmi, a former PTI president, said.
The PTI chiefs support by the military establishment also played pivotal role in bringing him into power during 2018 as the then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Jawed Bajwa along with the ISI, extended complete support to Khan and his narrative of accountability.
However, after 2018 till April 2022, Khans ability to extend the existing relations with countries like Saudi Arabia, the US, China and the UAE, coupled with expectations from him of fixing the tainted image of Pakistan in front of the world through his celebrity image and aura, backfired in a way that created more challenges for Islamabad and increased concerns of all regional countries and the western states in terms of cooperation with the country at any and all levels.
Imran Khan claimed he would bring in tons of foreign aids through remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis, which did not happen. He damaged Pakistans relations with the Arab world by announcing to launch a parallel alliance to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation with Malaysia and Turkey, said Kamran Yousaf, a senior analyst.
He started eyeballing the US and the West after NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. He even forced Chinese companies to halt their operations under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). All these things caused serious damage to Pakistans regional standing and its foreign policy.
And to top it all, Khan completely wrote off his opposition parties, their existence and centred his focus on putting them behind bars without the understanding of right of wrong, just of unjust, legal or illegal. He refused to talk to them, to create an understanding in the parliament. And he kept his eyes closed on the wrongdoings of his own party members, he added.
Khans shortcomings, specifically in view of serious reservations and concerns shared by friendly countries, are considered as one of the reasons why the military establishment decided to take a step back from supporting and as many term as spoon feeding him in managing the government.

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