Let me put this on record: There is NO way for the regime in Pakistan to win this; none at all. Even the concept of victory does not exist for the regime in this chaos.
Because the regime doesn't even know what it is fighting. It thinks it is fighting Imran Khan or PTI. It is not. It's convenient to give your enemy a name and entity but it's also blinding. In reality, the regime is up against an Era that has already arrived, latching on to past and unwilling to let go the previous era that doesn't even exist anymore.
The protests we see in Pakistan are an outcome of the multi-layered elements of change that have been baking for years now. At one level, there is a battle against the remnants of a colonial state system and its outdated bureaucracy and army. Another layer reveals a generational rift, as the 70% youth majority pushes back against a ruling class that refuses to step aside or retire. Then there is digital revolution that adds yet another dimension, challenging those who seek to keep Pakistan locked in a pre-digital past behind a 'firewall'. Beneath it all lies a simmering frustration with injustice and economic inequality, felt deeply by those who have been the victims of governance failures.
These forces are not isolated; they are stacked upon each other, and amplifying each other. Together, they form a momentum that no regime, especially not this one, can contain or control. Imran Khan and PTI simply represent this era and stacks of changes.
So unless the regime has a time-machine to undo and reverse the era, it is a lost war that they are trying to fight against an enemy they can't even see.