Justice & Law Quote by Imran Khan

A clean accusation dressed up as plain speech: Imran Khan’s line turns political grievance into a moral binary that’s easy to grasp and hard to shake. “At the moment” signals urgency and contingency, a claim that this isn’t how things must be, but how they’re being run right now. It invites a remedy. Then comes the friction point: “a ruling class.” Not “government,” not “administration” - a class, implying an entrenched ecosystem of elites: politicians, generals, judges, tycoons, fixers. Power isn’t just held; it’s inherited, traded, and protected.

The phrase “one law… and the people the other” is doing deliberate rhetorical work. It compresses complex debates about accountability, corruption, selective prosecution, and impunity into a single, vivid image: two parallel legal realities. The subtext is less about statutes than about outcomes. Courts, police, and bureaucracy become instruments that land differently depending on who you are. It’s a populist move, but not a cheap one; it frames inequality as betrayal, not mere unfairness.

Context matters: Khan’s politics have repeatedly leaned on an anti-corruption mandate and a promise to break Pakistan’s patronage networks. The line also functions defensively. When a leader faces legal pressure, alleging “two laws” recasts personal jeopardy as public injustice, converting a case into a cause. That’s why it lands: it speaks to a widely felt suspicion in Pakistan’s political culture - that accountability is often episodic, weaponized, and negotiated - while positioning the speaker as the instrument of correction rather than another beneficiary of the system.