When Imran Khan was Pakistan cricket captain, his best strategy for better performance was keeping discipline in the team. The strategy worked so well that Pakistan won the World Cup in 1992 besides many home and overseas series. His cricket victories led him to champion greater social and political causes. It is, however, unfortunate to see that he has failed to keep his party disciplined when it is in power. In 2018, his party MPAs sold their votes in the Senate elections. It is also heartening to see that he has never compromised on party discipline. After Senate elections, PM Khan made a fact-finding committee which held certain MPAs guilty of ignoring party decisions. He expelled them from the party, even though many of them were potential electables. His decision to punish the discipline breakers was so hailed by the public that the province elected his party again. Now, after 18 months in power in the second tenure, PTI is again facing a group of disgruntled MPAs. The group emerged last month when Chief Minister Mahmood Khan changed the portfolios of four ministers. Enraged, one of them went on air expressing resentment against the government. Making the matters more complicated, the chief minister has now removed three ministers from cabinet. They include Muhammad Atif Khan, who was the minister for sports, culture and tourism, Shahram Khan Tarakai, who was the minister for health and Shakeel Ahmed, who held the portfolio of revenue and estate. Their removal was just a matter of time as on Friday Atif Khan arranged a lavish dinner for MPAs to show his numbers game against the incumbent chief minister. A day before, Mohammad Ali Tarakai, uncle of health minister Shahram Khan Tarakai, publically spoke against his own party’s provincial government and the possibility of ditching it. The bone of contention was changing Shahram’s portfolio from the lucrative local government to a lesser known department. The prime minister needs to intervene in the affairs of both Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, besides in the centre where several disgruntled groups are emerging one after another. Though maintaining party discipline is important, it is also essential to listen to the other side. Most of the time, a group is forced to go to the media with its concerns when the party fails to address them. *