After a certain period, it is customary to evaluate the performance of a government in the light of the manifested vision, mission, quality as well as the quantity of service from the point of beginning to the present stage. Basic goals of the nations could be different; depending upon their circumstances. However, low unemployment, low inflation, steady economic growth, national security and peace are shared by all. In a democratic polity, political parties contest elections based on their manifesto and fulfil their agenda when they come into power. Now, the PTI government has completed two years in government. Let’s have a glance over the word and work of Mr Imran Khan and his government. During Imran Khan’s days in opposition, he was accustomed to making tall claims to have a panacea to cure all the ills of the country. His claims included creating 10 million jobs, constructing half a million housing units, introducing a powerful system of accountability, bringing a change in society, revamp ing government structure, forming a small cabinet, reducing the rates of utility bills, subsiding the burden of foreign loans, uplifting the poor, reforming the health and education sectors, saying no to “dictation,” improving the taxation system, making Prime Minister House a University, wiping out corruption, building hundreds of small dams, getting looted money worth 200 billion dollars back to Pakistan, creating a new province in Southern Punjab, reconciling the alienated Baloch leaders and so on. At this critical turn of history, wisdom says that practice what you preach. If you can’t, why don’t you let youthful leadership serve the country by vacating the seat? While keeping trust in the third umpire’s support, the PTI had announced a “100-day agenda” months before the 2018 Pakistani general elections. The plan was over-ambitious; covering most of the problems of Pakistan, if not all. So happened what happens in such cases. All the PTI voters’ hopes ended in smoke. As a matter of fact, the performance of the first 100 days has symbolic significance as this period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a government and mirrors the embryonic performance for the coming five years. As expected, the incumbent government has failed in delivering five governance functions of service delivery, projects, policies, legislation and institutional reform. Service delivery includes fair trial, quick justice, health, education, employment, communication and transport facilities, the supply of food and drinking water, price control, inflation and so on. Owing to a shortage of space, I can’t explain everything but would like to say that the government failed miserably in delivering services. In the name of fair trial and quick justice, opposition leaders, media people and other critics are being targeted. Health and education sectors were the prime focus of his so-called reform packages. Today, both sectors present the worst scenario. Free supply of medicine is no more allowed to the patients, counterfeit medicine is in plenty in the market. To crown it all, government hospitals are charging money to the patients in place of their services. As far as the education sector is concerned, people working in the education department prefer private institutions for their children. Employment conditions needed a lot of government attention but the government destroyed the national economy and let the factories close. So unemployment spread everywhere. Communication and transport service is expensive but of low quality. In the same way, food supply and drinking water are not in the reach of the common man. Waterborne diseases are laying a very bad impact upon the health in general. Food price as compared to per capita income is too high to get. Availability of pure food is also a problem due to commonplace adulteration. The PTI has tried to introduce borrowed policies in the country. Following the footsteps of Bill Gates, the chicken breeding program was introduced while the Sarmaya-i-Pakistan was copied from Malaysia. Neither Pakistan is Malaysia nor does Bill Gates live in Pakistan. Much trumpeted programs flopped since they were launched without proper brainstorming and homework. The ‘Sarmaya’ concept met a similar fate. In the domain of projects, we can discuss the Peshawar BRT project which is a complete failure. No other projects we find at their credit. No significant legislation or institutional reforms have been rendered by the PTI government to beat the previous governments in these areas. Previous governments can at least feel pride in passing the 18th Amendment and Fata merger bills. In this way, we don’t find PTI government performance as satisfactory in the above said five areas. It is a sad fact that the government, which has been raising the slogan of corruption-free Pakistan, is itself negligent of corruption committed by the people in its ranks. The first audit report of the present government has divulged irregularities and corruption not less than Rs270 billion in 40 government departments and ministries under its two-year tenure. That’s the reason, the PTI government has been labelled as the most corrupt government in the history of Pakistan by PPP Chairman, Mr Bilawal Bhutto. Transparency International report endorses the statement. According to Transparency International (TI), Pakistan ranks 120 out of 180 countries in corruption perception. The PTI has tried to introduce borrowed policies in the country No doubt, the government was unable to check the price of sugar and flour in the country. The government purchased sugar on higher rates from the sugar mills to let favourites grease their palms. In the PTI’s government “Friends of Khan” and non-elected people are more influential than the elected ones. The best example we see is the case of Mr Jehangir Tareen. A landmark rapid transport project, known as the BRT, is another example of corruption and inefficiency where a probe has revealed that officials pocketed millions in kickbacks. There is no exception to the billion tree tsunami project where the NAB detected a loss of 462 million rupees in January 2020. The allegations included ghost labour, embezzlement, and misappropriation. In the same way, shouldn’t a government, which has claimed to bring transparency, tell the people about the spending of Rs1,200 billion it has allocated to fight the challenges of coronavirus pandemic. It’s now an open secret that the government has been victimising opponents, damaging democratic institutions and destroying the already fragile economy. Supreme Court of Pakistan, the highest forum to deliver justice has summed up in the following words, “NAB laws were successfully employed as tools to change political loyalties, for splintering and fracturing political parties. Pygmies were selected, nurtured, promoted, and brought to prominence and power. People with notorious backgrounds and criminal credentials were thrust to rule us in various capacities with predictable results. Meanwhile corruption, misconduct and malpractice in governance kept growing at exponential rates and became all pervading. None of the state institutions whichsoever remained free from this morass.” The present government comprises the most heterogeneous people and hence assorted ideas yoked by invisible hands together. For example, a cricketer turned politician, backed by men in mufti, becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan and floats the idea of the State of Medina but feels no qualms in taking Uturns under one pretext or another. He speaks his heart when times require him to apply mind. Prior to elections in India. He hopes for a Kashmir issue solution if Modi wins. Modi wins and amends the constitution to engulf and digest the occupied Kashmir. On the assembly floor, he calls Bin Laden a martyr and gives a jolt to state policy. A minister from his cabinet frivolously blames Pakistani pilots with fake licenses and the world puts sanctions on PIA, and Pakistani pilots are stopped to work in different countries. The Line of Control is bleeding and he starts targeting senior politicians in the name of accountability at a time when reconciliation is needed the most. He raises the slogan to uplift the poor and the prices of wheat, sugar, electricity, gas, and eatables go uncontrolled. Things are not as they used to be. On the social media front, PTI supporters have lacked enthusiasm which they showed prior to elections 2018. No doubt the most difficult job is to defend the government these days due to their below-average performance. Certain groups and hired people try to fill the gap but of no use. Original supporters of PTI are disillusioned and disappointed. Mr Imran Khan has given the best part of his life to cricket. If he could not improve the cricket in which he has decades’ long experience, how can we expect his good performance in the fields where he has no knowledge and previous experience? The question arises here, was a success in world cup 1992 a fluke? At present, foreign debt is growing at an enormous speed. This government has become number one in getting foreign loans in the shortest time. There is no plan to return the loan to manage the economy. Mr Khan used to trumpet its popularity in overseas Pakistanis. One of his cherished dreams was about the shower of foreign investment in the country once he came into power. He came to power but no such investment we see in the country. He appealed to them to send one thousand dollars each but overseas Pakistanis did not pay heed to his call. There is a long list of such promises and their materialisation in opposite directions, which is not possible to mention here one by one. Future of Imran Khan does not seem to be envious of rival parties’ leaders since the common man is hurt by his policies. Furthermore, the growth of his party is not natural and democratic since it has grown under the umbrella of the establishment. The political history of Pakistan lets us know that the parties founded by dictators rose and fell with their founders. The masses did not allow these parties to grow among them. Consequently, these parties have slipped into oblivion over time. One can sum up the performance of government in one word which is none other but “incompetence.” In this regard, Bilawal Bhutto must be thankful to the present government. He called them incompetent in recent past and they proved the veracity of Mr Bilawal’s statement with their incompetence. There are governments and governments. Elected ones work for those who elected them while the selected ones for the selectors. Their performance speaks for itself. The writer is a Lahore-based barrister, politician, writer, political analyst and social worker