𝐊𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐊𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐑𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 Watch the calendar, not the headlines. The Kohat bombing was a tragedy. The strikes in Kunar came soon after. And the PTI Long March is set for October 4. The generals want us to read these as three separate events. They aren't. A crisis on the Afghan border gives the establishment two things it badly needs right now. First, an excuse to dodge the combat commitments it signed up for under the Makkah Defence Alliance. "We're fighting on our own frontier" is a convenient answer when allies come asking for troops. Second, and more important, it gives them cover at home. Emergency powers. Lockdowns. Mobile networks switched off. Ethnic tensions stirred up so that Pashtun, Punjabi and Sindhi stop marching side by side. We've seen this playbook before. Whenever the public turns against Rawalpindi, an enemy appears at the border. This time millions are planning to be on the streets demanding their democratic rights. The question is whether a manufactured war will be allowed to stop them. What do you expect to happen before October 4? #Pakistan #PTILongMarch #Kohat #Kunar #Democracy #PoliticalCrisis