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The current political scenario reminds us of the political situation of the nineties. The politics of enmity and revenge engulfed the whole decade of democracy and we landed in the land of autocracy.
A reasonable number of political analysts in Pakistan have accused our politicians for creating leadership space by not fulfilling the desires of the masses and needs of time. This leadership space they say is the rule of nature, is eventually filled by the army coups and time and again we are made to hear “Mere Aziz Hamwatno: by the generals. The changing international scenario needs us to behave in a different way then before.
From 1990 to 1999, the governments of PPP and PML changed several times. Every time a new party arrived, they accused if the previous one of the corruption, nepotism and ignorance of people’s right and wishes. Every time they took oath to protect the benefits of this country and change the plight of the poor. Every time they repeated they’re own and other party’s mistakes and every time we saw same result.
The accumulation of mutations leads to cancer. I am not here to justify military takeovers. I believe democracy is the key to solutions of our problems. But the key holders are not proving their worth (If there’s any). The national and international fronts are clogged with problems yet out politicians are busy cutting the cake into parts.
The rising tension between PPP and PML-N is a sign of danger to the coalition government. But no one is trying to reduce the tension. In fact international situations demands political stability at home so that we can deliver at those fronts with a peace of mind. Relations between PPP and PML-N were abolished due to unnecessary issues like power sharing in Punjab and judiciary, in Sindh, MQM showed flexibility and announced unconditional support and form government with PPP, but as usual discriminatory behavior of PPP and it’s leadership lead to flaws within two party workers and leadership. At this point of time, one should appreciate the role of Governer Sindh Dr.Ishrat ul Ibad and MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain, who tried their best to keep this relationship intact for a better and prosperous Sindh.
The question is how to achieve political harmony?
The financial crisis has grown out of limits. The law and order situation is at stake. The need of the hour is to unite on some agenda, form a policy and commit to stand by it. The people are ready to suffer even if they have to by adopting an independent policy at home and abroad. None from the masses is demanding dollars at the cost of national integrity and instability.
In fact, they are suffering already in terms of inflation, electricity crisis and worsened law and order situation. But the politicians are busy securing their governments in their own provinces, enlarging their cabinets, suspending and restoring political appointments and exploiting national situation in order to secure two-third majority in the next general elections.
I was stunned to read in a previous issue of Herald that in Baluchistan, the provincial opposition consists of one person. And a record percentage of members of the assembly are ministers. The same has happened in center. These are real signs of prevalence of the immaturity among the top political leadership. During the last seven months people have been desperately waiting for a pro-people step from the leadership. But nothing seems to be happening.
The change of leadership in America will be testing time for Pakistan. The current series of events is an easy sign of impending instability at home. The amount of trust between the parties is decreasing like our foreign exchange reserves that drops from $17billion to %8 billion. With the economy in worse condition and impaired law and order, we can hardly think of any thing else other then another “mere aziz hamwatno” by a general in near future.
It’s high time to realize the gravity. The countdown has already begun.
