I don’t really want to get into the claims of rigging in 2024. In any case, if 2024 was rigged so was 2018. Mian Sahab and Maryam Bibi were in jail. Imran was the “selected” PM.

I agree that 2026 is different from 2024. “Operation Sindoor” served to rehabilitate the Field Marshal. The hybrid regime is much stronger than it was twelve months ago.

Imran Khan won the 2024 elections from jail, with his party banned and his candidates running as independents.

Infact it was not even close, he probably won 2/3rds majority which is what set the alarm bells ringing

In my city ok Karachi, he won 17 or 18 seats out of 20, whose results were changed in the morning and given to MQM which was not even 3rd in contention.

In Punjab, both Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz lost their elections along with a host of others. Only Shahbaz may have actually won his seat.

Facts are facts, lets not deny them.

However PTI since that has lost a lot of support and Field Marshall Asim Muneer has gained some popularity after defeating India and getting several wins on the diplomatic front.

I think Imran Khan should have compromised when offered a deal last year but he is stubborn as an angry ox.

And in any normal country said Kharge wouldn’t pander to the worst tendencies of the same community that killed his family but unfortunately, we are not a serious country.

The deccani muslims killed lot of Hindus from 1940-48 just because they were Hindus and expect Hindus to be peaceful. Locals have penned songs on the atrocities. There is a song “Nakka Andalamma” which describes how muslims raped her. It’s always muslims start and Hindus will respond. 1991 riots in hyd is still fresh in our memories.

The metaphor of the monkey getting his hand stuck in the candy jar is often applied to Pakistanis and the ‘Kashmir dispute’.

From an Indian perspective, “Agent Imran” was a useful idiot when it comes to Ind-Pak relations. That’s what the phaujjj thought of him when it ‘organized’ the PM Kursi for him. He was only too happy to parrot the PakMil invented ‘hard’ propaganda rhetoric against India. Which is just noise anyway.

More importantly, he damaged Pakistani foreign relations, and his messianic self-belief led him to trailblaze as a Pakistani politician into directly challenging PakMil. These are all ‘good’ outcomes from an Indian view.

If there existed such a thing as an objective Pakistani liberal-minded patriot, capable of honesty, then they would be willing to accept the fact that the path for Pakistan to progress cannot be constructed without somehow getting out from under the kleptocratic jackboots of the Pakistani Miltary. Till date, Immmy was the best shot that Pakistanis have taken at attempting this. For this alone, Immy deserves credit. Sure he was…..a misguided messiah with warts. But this alone, is nothing to be dismissed.

//Yes after 200 years of Hyderabad State coexiating with Hindus, suddenly the Nizam thought he would become an Islamic ISIS inspired state and great Patel had to stop it!//

The Nizam did not think so, the razakars did and he was not smart enough to know otherwise. You should read ‘The Hyderabadis’ by Daneesh Majid. It covers how not only his non Muslim advisors but even Jaamt e islami advised the Nizam to make peace with India but he did not listen. Believing he could be independent.

Parts of nizam’s territory in karnataka was till very recently called hyderbad karnataka, now called kalyana karnataka.

This is the most backward region of karnataka.the region lags in every matric.

Nizam’s rule was hugely exploitive, extractive and exclusivist. It benefed mostly the Muslim elite.

They called themselves Osmani, claiming lineage from turkey. They brought brides from turkey and many princes stayed in turkey.

Interestingly, their army chief was a Egyptian and he went back promptly after defeat.

Osmanis never considered themselves as belonging to this land.

I think this is how mughals also felt.

The region’s well known representatives are kharge father and son duo.
Senior kharge’s house was burnt along with his mother and sister by maurading razakars.

razakar is such a hated name that Hasina got into great trouble in Bangladesh when she accused
The JI backed protesters as razakars.

After the election, a middle aged woman was asked by a media guy as to why she did not vote for Jl.
She said that they were razakars.

The hyderbadi razakar’s legacy is well maintained by oweisi.