Khyber PK is the province where Tehrik-e-Insaaf of Imran Khan is hoping to get majority seats this time. They are non-existent in Sindh, Balochistan, GB, and Kashmir. In Punjab, they have some support in the urban areas of central Punjab, and that’s not enough by any means to win them any respectable numbers in the Punjab assembly. So their only hope is KPK. But in KPK, all the surveys point that PML-N and PTI are neck in neck. Almost all the votes in KPK are right winger except votes of Awami National Party (ANP) which is thoroughly unpopular in the province after their five year rule, and besides they are at the direct targets of terrorists. Right wing vote is going to divide between PML-N, PTI, JI, and Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F with some for JUI-S of Sami ul Haq.

 

 

It was pretty surprising for me that PML-N or PTI didn’t strike seat adjustment with the JI. PTI’s refusal is understandable as they are on cloud 9 and already dream that they are in the government. But what happened to the experienced PML-N? They need not to take any risk and must make seat adjustment with the JI, who are their natural allies at least in KPK. Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F is also going to win some considerable seats at the provincial level in next elections with it’s sound voter base. Their voters are ultra-religious and semi-illiterate and doesn’t really much know or think about hypocrisy, greed, corruption, and expediency of their leader Fazlur Rehman. It’s understandable why both PML-N and PTI avoided him. But PML-N should show some politics there and try to strike deal on few seats in KPK to deny any chance of winning to PTI.

 

PML-N must burst this PTI bubble, the legacy of Shuja Pasha.