Congrats Imran Khan on becoming the Wazie - E - Azam or the Prime minister of Pakistan. But unlike Cricket, this is a whole different ball game. You are not the man in charge in large here. The real Captain is your Army Chief. You will be a mere player in his hands.
As usual Allah, Army and America, in that order, will always matter in Pakistan. The role of the first two is obvious. But your countrymen who have no love lost for Uncle Sam still love him for one thing - free supply of money in form of Billions of US Dollars.
Though China and Saudi Arabia are your other benefactors, they are not gullible as the Americans are - especially the inscrutable Chinese. You can milk Americans money by fooling them, an art your Army masters have mastered to perfection. It won't be so easy for you to fool the Chinese.
The men in charge of the Middle Kingdom (interestingly the Chinese politburo and its central committee is conspicuously male dominated) are men of balls with much tougher nuts to crack. They can't be easily duped a la the Americans who think, often erroneously that throwing away dollars can always get things done. The Chinese may shower you with favors laced with bombastic accolades like - "China -Pakistan friendship is higher than the mountains and deeper than the oceans", but the great businessmen they are, they will extract their pound of flesh from you.
Unstinting support from them does not come free. If the Chinese will order you to jump, you will ask - "How High", as you are expected to keep India, their only Nuclear rival in Asia at bay at a low cost of outsourcing. So, you can't afford to have a good relationship with your eastern neighbor and need to stay belligerent to them in order to please both your Army and the Chinese masters who will be pulling strings from your behind.
You are known as the ultimate Alpha male, a famous Playboy with alleged affairs ranging from Bollywood's Zeenat Aman to American model Sita White - with whom you fathered an illegitimate girl child (you initially denied but ended up paying child support when an US Court summoned you for Paternity test). You wanted to defeat India in India and England in England, you got it. You fulfilled your desire to win the Cricket World Cup. Your ambition to build a Cancer hospital materialized. Your wanted to be the Prime minister of Pakistan and you are about became one. Wish you all success in a failed state.
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