Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) has lost its popularity among the youth, according to the Political Survey 2026 conducted by the Research and Analytics Institute (RAI) of Pakistan.
The survey was conducted amongst 25,000 plus youth.
40 per cent of the youth are satisfied with the performance of the current government, according to the survey findings.
They believe that Pakistan is headed in the right direction as compared to last year.
The majority of the youth think the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has contributed most to the development.
Regarding trust in the government institutions, the trust has increased 15 per cent as compared to 14 per cent last year.
However, the biggest challenges for the youth seem to be unemployment, corruption, law and order, and poverty, as per the survey findings.
The survey also found that 48 per cent of youth think that Pakistan’s political landscape has improved as compared to 34 per cent last year.
PTI loses popularity among youth
The survey also found that 74 per cent of youth are registered voters and 36 per cent of youth could vote for PTI.
Whereas, 33 per cent could vote for PML-N.
However, PTI voters have decreased by 7 per cent, and PML-N voters have increased by 9 per cent as compared to last year.
Youth expresses great trust in Army
The youth have expressed their confidence in government institutions.
Additionally, overall confidence in the army has increased by 3.36 per cent as compared to last year.
According to the data, the army has emerged as the state institution in which the highest increase in public trust was seen.
In addition, improvements were recorded in trust in the judiciary, police, parliament, and civil service.
However, politicians overall still rank the lowest in terms of public trust.
Hafeez Ullah Niazi criticises PTI’s social media team
Recently, Senior analyst and columnist Hafeez Ullah Niazi has strongly criticised the PTI social media team during a private news channel talk show.
He pointed out that the main problem with PTI’s social media brigade is not ideology, but financial interest.
Adding further, Niazi warned that when history is analysed in the future, PTI’s own social media team will emerge as one of the most damaging factors for Imran Khan.
