[DAWN] AT times a revolution, at others a movement, and yet others a political party for radical reforms, the PTI has now comprehensively lost the plot. Even the pledge to not leave the premises until the prime minister resigns is no longer repeated. The talks around examining the four electoral districts where serious wrongdoing is alleged, have been forgotten.What we have now is petulant and indignant oratory delivered to an assembled multitude, about the general deplorability of the status quo. No real path forward, and no path back either. By now everyone can see that the PTI has a lot of stamina to bellow its message night after night -- but there is no real message as such.
Consider the diatribes against the power tariff hikes and the IMF as an example. There was a time when the IMF was written about in the Pak press as the seat of all evil, the wicked hand of imperialism that rams inflation-inducing policies down the throat of a reluctant government. Subsidies and price controls were good. Markets and businessmen were bad.