This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial "Churlish behavior" carried by the newspaper yesterday. This is, of course, about time Prime Minister Imran Khan needed to revisit some aspects of his personality and behaviour. His approach to political opposition casts serious doubts about his ability to deal with his detractors in a manner that does not put his office of premiership in bad light. I fully endorse newspaper's view that "Prime Minister Imran Khan comes across in his public persona and attitudes as dismissive of the opposition generally, whom he and his government and party never tire of castigating with allegations of corruption. This has had the unintended effect of colouring the National Accountability Bureau's drive against opposition leaders as politically partisan if not a witch-hunt. The result is extreme political polarisation in the country, a situation not conducive to running a federal democratic parliamentary system, whose boundaries, limits, conventions and culture are being routinely violated by the PTI government."

The prime minister is therefore required to revisit his strategy of denigrating and demonizing opposition leaders 24/7 in the larger interest of future of democracy in the country.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019