Accepting the judicial commission’s (JC) report on rigging in the 2013 elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that his party would chalk out its future strategy after going through the findings.The three-judge panel formed to investigate PTI’s claims of systematic fraud in the previous general elections concluded that the polls were in large part organised fairly. Its 237-page report was issued by the ministry of law and justice and human rights on Thursday.While talking to journalists in the flood-hit district of Chitral, the PTI chief said he had heard somewhere that the inquiry report had been uploaded to a website, but logically the findings should have been shared with his party. “The PTI will announce its future plan after reading the report,” he said.This verdict should be accepted and is the closure to a long and arduous journey. The PTI still has much to be proud of. It has risen as a formidable political party representing all classes, breaking the all-encompassing rule of the status-quo politicians. It has managed to mobilise the youth, women and the elderly to leave the comfort of their homes to vote, participate in rallies, sit-ins and dharnas, all for the love of their leader and their belief in change. It is time to let go of the punctures and accept this decision with finality. Chasing this ghost was never a wise decision. Many a supporter turned their backs on PTI during the dharnas. They were excited by the prospect of change, but slowly became disillusioned when they realised their leader’s antics were no different from their predecessors. Imran Khan should have been running the KP government and focusing on PTI constituencies. His devotees support him because of his honesty, philanthropy and transparency, rather than his politicking and stubbornness. If he went back to his image of the philanthropist hero, and worked for concrete changes like law and order in KP, his political ambitions would automatically fall into place. If anything the 35 punctures saga has punctured the PTI.
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