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In his televised victory speech, however, Khan tried to reassure China; it was the first country referred to in the foreign policy portion of his speech and he repeatedly referred to Chinese
governance policies as desirable models. "I will send a team to China to learn how it brought 660 million people out of poverty," he said. He also said he would seek to leverage CPEC to attract wider foreign direct investment and generate employment for young Pakistanis.
Dear Imran: I can save you the time. What China did is summed up in a word: ditched communism. Ok two words.
They ditched an ideology.
I was there when it happened. It was down to Deng Xiaoping and his famous adage: "it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice".
This was hard enough. But the ideology China ditched — communism — had only been in place for four or five decades.
For Imran Khan, the ideology he has to ditch is Islam. That's been in place in Pakistan for 130 decades.
Let's be clear and frank: it won't happen. Let alone that Khan is not secular and doesn't particularly want it to happen.
So he won't be able to do what he wants because the ideology of Islam, its mullahs as well as the deeply compromised intelligence services will thwart him.
In saying this, I seem to be agreeing with the thrust of the comments on the article.
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