The veteran bureaucrat, Roedad Khan, in one of his recent articles, says that Prime Minister Imran Khan must succeed because in the event of his failure, a political and social revolution in its most extreme form is inevitable in Pakistan. If all goes well, Imran will go down in history as the savior of Pakistan. The prognosis of Roedad Khan must have been inspired by his deep introspection about the political and economic conditions overwhelming the country since decades now to which he has made a small reference too. There is no denying the fact that the elite capture of the state and its resources has left no space for the common people to live with honour and dignity in the country or feel as genuine stakeholders in the current political and the economic systems which in anyway are blatantly anti masses, exploitative and rotten to the core. What other option the people of Pakistan have than a violent revolution when the political system is occupied by the dynasties; the state power and economic resources have been hijacked by the elite including professional politicians; the posterity of the British-promoted families; the landed gentry; the Sajadahnashins; the senior civil and military bureaucrats and industrialists. The elite, as elaborated above, have been arrogating all state facilities to themselves. Their ambition for more power has no limit; their hunger for more perks and privileges is insatiate even after taking possession of all precious lands in cities and towns, having palatial houses, big vehicles and separate expensive schools for their children along with separate comfortable hospital wards for their families. They swindle the wealth of the country and prefer to live abroad. The economy has been in the jaws of crocodiles – mafias, corrupt leaders and swindlers. The common people have been kept on crumbs thrown to them condescendingly. They have suffered powerlessness, social asphyxia, poverty, hunger, misery and the oppression of the shameless coercive state organs since the inception of the country. Their children have been deprived of education, jobs and opportunities for social advancement. Even today 25 million children between 5-16 years are out of school. These children belong to the underprivileged families – and not the elite or middle class of semi urban centres. They are vulnerable to all water born diseases because of their chronic deprivation of clean drinking water. They have no option than sharing the muddy and dirty water of a pond with their animals. Their children die of snake bites, rabbis, hunger and malnutrition, HIV and Hepatitis c, their women give birth in auto-rickshaws, donkey carts and in the corridors of maternity homes or hospitals because they are denied admission on one pretext or the other. They transport the dead bodies of their loved ones on motorbikes or camel carts. Either the hospitals do not have ambulances or doctors refuse to spare one. The situation is grim. He is known for his diligence and resilience. As a cricketer, he used to fight to the last ball. He is determined to repeat this feat Interestingly, most of the ambulances remain in the use of these saviors of humanity who are capable of selling medicines of their hospitals to private drug stores or hiding them in the graveyards. I am referring to the recent drug scandal in Larkana. Tons of drugs of hospitals were recovered from the Qaim Shah Bukhari graveyard. Am I resorting to any exaggeration? No gentlemen, this has been happening in our dear country every day since decades and decades. Honestly speaking, we – the so called elite, educated and conscious class – all are responsible for their misery and their social asphyxia. How can we have a sound sleep on our comfortable beds when our people – the hewers of wood and drawers of water; the operators of industrial machinery; the tillers of land; the growers of grain; the providers of supplies for our city and town markets; the most loyal citizens of this state, grapple with the pangs of hunger, the pain of afflictions throughout the night without hope for a better tomorrow. The better tomorrow lies in the realization of their responsibility by all segments of society, all organs of the state and political and social leaders. They stop their race for space and power; they see their steep degradation and realize the political, economic and judicial chaos and anarchy they have created in the country. They are not owner of this country; they are, at best, public servants to serve the country and the real owners of it – the populace – as called by Burke. They should fear the day when crowds of distraught and hungry people march in fury and frenzy and encircle citadels of power and privilege destroying every moving object coming in their way. Perhaps for this reason, Mao Zedong had advised his comrades in arm to prioritize the wellbeing of villages and small towns to save their cities from the wrath of desperate, despondent and hungry mobs. Prime Minister Imran Khan, notwithstanding his personal honesty, commitment and sincerity, has been facing a formidable uphill task in putting the country on the right track. He is strenuously working within a corrupt polity. Working with a corrupt and dysfunctional administration and in a rotten political system, he has challenged the demigods of the status quo. He finds it difficult to control and weigh frogs in a straight and flat scale. His difficulties as agent of change are enormous and the crowds milking this corrupt system are out with long knives to bludgeon him. Police, health, education, judicial reforms are resisted; the agrarian and land reforms remain out of question as the legislative assemblies are filled with the landlords; the grip of mafia-like groups on the economic and market levers is strong; the political leadership is wary of any accountability. Prime Minister Imran Khan is clearly losing the war of publicity and projection in our gullible political and social milieu. The situation is grim. He is known for his diligence and resilience. As a cricketer, he used to fight to the last ball. He is determined to repeat this feat. This is what holds out a hope for octogenarian Roedad Khan. The author was a member of the Foreign Service of Pakistan and he has authored two books