I agree with this in general. No doubt there is a strong component of class to establishment.
But you can’t deny that race or ethnicity is not a consideration as far as establishment acts. The evidence of history is that it definitely has played a part. Again vis a vis the Bengalis and the CSS...
Whatever-
I don’t really care about ethnicity. Everyone can be proud of what they are and have whatever culture they want to have.
I DO have a problem when the establishment behaves in a way to disadvantage people of certain ethnicities. Most notably the sort of policies the establishment of...
Read my blurb again. I am talking about historic voting patterns. A significant portion of punjabis still vote PMLN on the basis of ethnicity.
Also, your assertion on Punjab being the most educated province is true on technicalities. If we include all provinces and territories, it would be...
I am saying that Punjabs voting pattern historically is a product of taasub ki politics. Hard to deny frankly. It’s no different from most other parties- exception being PTI and Religious parties.
If the country is 55% Punjabi and the politics of the punjab becomes a simple issue of voting...
The point is that PMLN voters vote Sharif because they see him as Punjabi (even if he isn’t). Jag Punjabi jag. Hamara para likha Punjab. Same as PPP voters voting for Bhutto (even though Bhutto may not technically be Sindhi).
Yes- we, myself included, have been proven sorely mistaken about Hafiz sahib. I guess it was naivety that expected me to think that people would not put their egos above strategy but alas…
I have no problem with him posting this if he knew jack squat about how to run the economy. Ideally one would post duas and then do their job well too.
I have been saying this from the beginning that Miftah with all his faults is much better than Dar- but patwaris have a love relation with him for some reason.