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Sadanand Dhume @dhume on x 174.1K followers
Created: 2025-07-03 14:31:24 UTC
One of the most interesting and underreported stories in South Asian politics: A year ago @ImranKhanPTI was a galvanizing force among Pakistanis—both in Pakistan and abroad—and also a minor international cause célebre. This is no longer true. You still see a few diehard IK supporters here and there on social media, and the occasional post by a committed activist-journalist, but for the most part both Pakistan and the world appear to have moved on. Imran is still rotting in jail. The field marshal is strutting his stuff in the White House. The once vocal Pakistani diaspora in London and Texas has hit a collective mute button. Somebody, ideally a Pakistani journalist with no dog in this fight, should write about what happened. How do you go from a beacon of national hope to a half-forgotten man in the shadows so fast? I once wrote that Imran Khan was Pakistan’s Ned Stark, idealistic but outmatched in cunning. That description still holds. But I’m not sure who that makes Asim Munir, whose rise has been as dizzying as his rival’s fall.
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