PML-N VS MQM – Who Says Our Politicians Are Mature?

The best entertainment one can find these days while watching prime time telecast is simply to watch how the representatives from both parties do their best to declare each other the biggest “liar”. I must admit that neither the Daily Show hosted by John Stewart or any other programme can produce an entertainment than the one produced by both the parties. MQM, no reason to doubt, has always found a way to remain in the news in one form or the other. It has been crowned as the only party which has evolved without becoming an opposition or moving out of a specific geographical surrounding.

Where the entire nation geared up for a Long March to restore CJ, they found ample time to go for a self declared long march without any goal in mind. They can have 42 innocent people killed right in their domain and still one finds them complaining that in fact it was a conspiracy against them. What governance.

Now when it is clear that the wind is all out to set Musharraf on trial, they have found a new note, with the only difference that it is based on an episode nearly 17 years old. A liberal party by manifesto (though one must refer to Imran Khan for their definition), God knows what has occupied their mind this time around. It was PPP and MQM who have secured maximum out of the spirit of reconciliation(NRO) and they are vocal every time to declare that we are moving in a new direction, but still one finds them opening up files which were locked many years back.

To PML-N I don’t have words of appreciation, although of a different kind. Its leadership, precisely Mr. Nawaz has in the name of friendly opposition destroyed the whole credibility of an institution called the parliament. One cannot find an example like this where evil is protected today for the betterment of tomorrow. After every accord he has landed himself in trouble, only to stand up and gear up for another accord. The position in which he has found himself, it is required that he must play a role seen in the past from Nawabzada Nasrullah but unfortunately this is not the case. Where it is a known fact that this will help neither of them, they have dragged many controversial entities into the whole drama. One watches every day how former spy masters are revealing facts (who knows true or false) and on its bases our politicians our deriving new policies.

For so long the political forces in Pakistan have cried that the only root cause for the failure of democracy is the invisible hand of establishment and today from Raiwind to London they are fighting on the claims made by the same power. So shameful, in the end it really hurts every Pakistani when they see their capital turning into a US colony of 7000 marines, flour and sugar not accessible even in Ramadan, an uncertain future with no economical prosperity, an unseen presence of Taliban still haunting, But our political gurus out there to settle the scores from the past. Undoubtedly the vacuum of leadership has damaged us more than any thing else.


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43 responses to “PML-N VS MQM – Who Says Our Politicians Are Mature?”

  1. Momina Avatar

    @Lt. Gen: Yes the country needs many things but most are not available. Imran Khan is the best available leader.

    Faraz is absolutely right.

    HE

    Religion could very well be a source of unity and should be. But people have created their own religions bordering on things that benefit them. The people should first be told what the real message and principles of Islam are. This will take some time. People never want to part with the rules that they have made and easily part with the rules Allah has made.

    lol@”people going to shrines and asking the dead to intercede with the Almighty on their behalf”

  2. Shakir Lakhani Avatar

    @ Hend: “i was wondering why can’t the religion do the same”. Islam has been divided into so many sub-sects that most Muslims don’t trust other Muslims who do not belong to their sub-sect. That is why we see the Taliban killing other Muslims and blowing up shrines because they can’t tolerate people going to shrines and asking the dead to intercede with the Almighty on their behalf.

  3. Shakir Lakhani Avatar

    @ General: Military service for everyone (both males and females) would be a very good thing, but very expensive for the country. Where would you get the money to transfer millions of people from their home towns and then make barracks for them? I think it would be more practical to reduce summer vacations and give some kind of military training for a month every year to students in schools.

  4. Shakir Lakhani Avatar

    @ Hend: Imran Khan can’t be elected because he doesn’t have funds to organize his party on a nation-wide scale.

  5. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    i mentioned imran khan because he is well known in pakistan, achieved success, did social work, has not been in any scams or bribery scandals and seems to be honest when he says he wants to serve people.

    he may not be everyone’s ideal choice but if comparison is with sharifs, zardaris, gilanis and huseeins then what have you got to lose? moreover he entered politics and has persisted with it, not for power or money.

    now going back to the ethnic divisions, i think if there is any single person who can be a common rallying point or a unifying figure for pakistan then it can be him or one of such people.

    here i will disagree with general when he said ‘He should be made Governor of NWFP. He himself is a Pakistani-Pakhtun.’ why NWFP?

    why not punjab? he has spent his life there in lahore and islamabad, done his social work there, his pakistani identity is larger than his pakhtun identity…isn’t it? putting his place in NWFP is like sidelining him, narrowing his identity and more importantly going back to the very ethnic boundaries you want people to cross.

    let me end by clarifying that i am not trying to promote him or his party, but i feel people are demoralized and disenchanted with self-serving politicians to the point of losing faith in the system. imran can help restore it, nationalistic pride and more importantly do real work for the good of people. ofcourse my view is that of an external observer …you guys know the best.

  6. Hend Avatar
    Hend

    Ethnic mentality is rooted in people’s minds at various levels such as
    1. Political (aligning only with same ethnic group)
    2. Social (socializing, mixing, working, environment etc.)
    3. Familial (forming marital relations).

    Number 3 is most difficult to cross but 2 and 1 can be overcome with sincere effort. Crossing 1 is a must for national political integration in the country. politicians use the ethnic divisions to fulfil their selfish agenda.

    general makes a good point about using military training to instill these values but i was wondering why can’t the religion do the same.

  7. Lt. General Ayub Khan Avatar

    death to feudal minded leaders…….

    Pakistan needs to make military training compulsory. That will help them get rid of tribal/ethnic mentality and help them think more on national level.

    The Turks do it. Why can’t we?

  8. Faraz Avatar
    Faraz

    People in Pakistan seem to vote more based on ethnic and tribal allegiances rather than on issues. So a certain section of society will vote for PPP or MQM or Muslim League simply because they relate to them on an ethnic or tribal level.

    This might be true in all democracies but more so in Pakistan. Being a feudal landlord with lots of influence over the uneducated rural villagers also greatly helps.

    I wonder how many supporters of PPP or PML or MQM are aware of the platforms of their parties. What are their economic plans? Their stance on social issues?

  9. Lt. General Ayub Khan Avatar

    Yea he’s well educated and says some of the right things, but i wouldnt want him as a leader. He doesnt even have the popular support.

    He should be made Governor of NWFP. He himself is a Pakistani-Pakhtun.

    The country needs a secular-minded (but Islamic principled), modern thinking, intelligent, well-spoken, assertive figurehead. Somebody everybody can look up to and admire.

  10. Momina Avatar

    HE

    I have heard many non-Pakistanis echoing the same view as yours. And I agree with you. I don’t say he is an ideal leader, but a thousand times better than those elected.

    I myself want to know what my compatriots have to say about this…

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