Leadership Call!
When I switch my tv to a news channel, it alarms me about near future of this so called democracy. Why media should not shout on government? Government gave a perfect plan of incompetence and fail governance under the umbrella of fake democracy. I don’t say President Zardari or PM Gilani is not democracy and replace them with Sharif or some other. Democracy should be for everyone. I understand democracy as a system which has equal likes and dislikes for a landlord and a farmer from governing body. Democracy should be in system. For God sake don’t name political parties as an ambassador of democracy. No political party of current system (government and opposition) seems to be democratic.
Pakistani soil is demanding a realistic national revival. Politicians must forecast the upcoming situation and move towards right direction. Otherwise people will start killing democracy believers with embarrassment due to politicians and yell of people will start demanding alternative power. Politicians should be afraid of that call’ of people who will not having political leadership but their own people to lead the country, you can say them dictators, military rulers or revolutionists whatever!
And people will take a breath with satisfaction and change the meanings of few words from Pakistani nation’s dictionary and those words would be ‘Democracy, Politicians, Parliament, and Government)
(Next post will be the sequel of this post regarding democracy and Pakistan)
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Institutional clashes - (Part 2)
May be some friends and readers remember my post ‘Institutional clashes’. This post is the second part of that post. Media discussing a lot about collision of government and Supreme Court and both know public is with supreme court of Pakistan. As government does not want to open cases on SC’s order and taking breath from review petition in SC. PPP has a declining public popularity, which will effect PPP’s position in next election. Media got huge chance to shout on government about SC’s order implementation but I think people don’t remember the statement of PM Mr. Gilani that ‘How we can open cases on our president?’
Recently NRO’s rejection order of SC changed the political situation. Now government repeatedly needs to say that ‘We have excellent relations with Judiciary’. Why this statement came to hear again and again? This statement came because there is a high internal confrontation between government and judiciary.
Stability can be brought in Pakistan by fulfilling the commitments from government side. But government has a stand that president cannot leave the office due to cases because of presidential immunity that is given by the constitution of Pakistan. The example of our president’s situation is like a man who is in bullet proof glass box and firing is going on outside and at some time that man has to come out of the glass box and choose his new way to proceed.
Masood’s Focus
These days media got hot issue of detailed judgement of NRO announced by supreme court and ordered government to reopen all swiss cases and other cases made by previous governments. I got a chance to see Mr. Shahid Masood’s program ‘Mere Mutabik on GEO TV continuously for 2 weeks and come to know that there is an article ‘190’ in Constitution of Pakistan which says or means ‘Supreme court has the power to call army for enforcement of decisions if government does not owner court’s order’.
Mr. Masood’s program triggered this debate of article 190. Now different political anchors want from there guests to talk about article 190 of Constitution of Pakistan. Media is representing people’s though as people did not want Mr. Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan and somehow his eligibility to be a president is on stake. Now people of Pakistan are audience and government and Supreme Court are on stage and performing their acts. Time is near where major changes and decisions will be made.
Pray for Pakistan!
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Hassaan Khan
U turn!
As per our US relations experience Pakistani nation is very concerned about it. Besides what government of Pakistan’s foreign policy is, masses of Pakistan never accepted USA and they have solid reasons for that. History tells us after soviet afghan war USA left afghan-Pakistan alliance and revised its foreign policy. Now after almost one decade USA again made Pakistan as major alley. Pakistan had to bear a lot for this. No doubts due to our internal problems like bad government and corruption we could not utilize US’s aid in all times. Then again point comes to that problem of huge crises of leadership in Pakistan. I always write, this crises is the biggest one and only be produced purely by Pakistani people. Why don’t we choose right people?
True Pakistani leaders could achieve a lot from US cooperation. One of the major lacking point of ex president musharraf was that he never used USA for betterment of people and in strategic and economic sectors. Experts say that USA contributes technology, strategic empowerment and research with India and loans, aids and defense material with Pakistan. It’s totally unfair!
I always quote the quotation of an American author and professor of business management department of University of southern California. He differentiate Manager and Leader as ‘Managers are the people who do things right, and Leaders are the people who do right things’ .
So, our leaders of next 10 years whoever they are and will be, must think that tale of slippery fish can be slipped from hand at any time. Friends can become enemies without giving any indication. Beware of those changes that are waiting to happen!
Indigestible!
Some problems are not easy to face. Today Pakistan is facing internal clashes and foreign conspiracies. The main reason of internal clashes is unpopularity of ruling party of Pakistan. The solution is not that replace the government by any mean. Point of disappointment is ‘what next option we have? I am very sure; we will never progress as a nation until and unless we keep aside race, colour, and tongue in politics. As Quaid-e-azam emphasized that government has nothing to do with religion, race and colour of people. But unfortunately what we do is opposite to what Quaid said. One more reason of our worst politics is that we don’t analyze the individual to whom we are going to vote. Normally both educated and uneducated people in Pakistan see relation with the nominated representative or just see the party symbol. Now a political party nominated hundreds of members for assembly. Party don’t know personally each of them. Voter’s responsibility is that to think, analyze and then vote for the best individual from any party.
2 Players Games!
Recently President of PML-N and CM Punjab ‘Shahbaz Sharif’ visited Karachi and had a healthy meeting with governor sindh Dr. Ishrat ul ibad and other MQM officials. On the other hand if you remember ‘All Parties Democratic movement’ (APDM) was made by the alliance of different opposition parties including PML-N during the tenure of PML-Q.
Mr. Nawaz sharif boycotted the MQM and all parties Pakistan tehreek e insaf, MMA and ANP also rejected MQM in future politics. But now ANP is coalition partner of MQM in federal government and Shahbaz sharif is welcoming MQM to come in Punjab. Where their political stands are now? Why they deceive people all the time? They don’t care of nation’s prosperity and national interest and their priorities are own benefits.
Actually these politicians are not as corrupt as we are, as a nation. We know our politicians, we elect them, then we hate them, then we demand to get rid of them after sometime we need them back.
NRO-Wrong decision of a strategic man!
I don’t believe NRO as National reconciliation ordinance; I consider ‘NRO’ the abbreviation of ‘Never Root out the Owls’. Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf I do agree that you served the country with bold and strategic decisions and your tenure was the most difficult duration of Pakistan’s life due to 9/11 and other international pressures and you made almost good decisions in foreign policy. Sir, It does not mean that you are bigger then Pakistan for me! If I like you, believe me it does not mean i’ll support your wrong steps.
How a head of state can end the biggest corruption cases on the top corrupted people of the state? How can you forgive billions of Rupees corruption by a presidential ordinance? Lower middle class, middle class and poor people are living hand to mouth in Pakistan due to inflation and other economic issues and you give the explanation that ‘cases in courts are pending from more than a decade, so we should move to reconciliation process’ . Sir, your responsibility being the president was to ask courts to complete the cases under some deadline and not to bring NRO and remove top judiciary.
Changes are waiting to happen!
Pakistani soil is demanding major changes in Pakistani territory. Leave TV analysts, and famous writers, just ask a common man, what is going to happen in near future? He will surely tell you the pack up of current dictatorial democracy. Democracy is not being delivered in Pakistan. Billion dollars owner is a head of state, and one is waiting for his turn. Current political system of Pakistan is continuously giving disappointment to nation. I don’t understand how governing politicians say this system ‘a democracy’ where a president [head of state] who was elected by national assembly. Respected national assembly members were chosen by 18 feb 08 general elections and those elected members of national assembly elected President of Pakistan ‘Mr. Asif Ali Zardari’. According to an independent foreign survey Mr. Asif Ali zardari is unpopular among 80% of Pakistani people, so how our elected parliamentarians representing us? Sorry my friends! Its not democracy! Its civil dictatorship!
These upcoming changes are not in the control of any body. But people say that spiritual aspect of Pakistan is going to take a turn. Global pressures, international relations, unpopular and bad governance, indian involvement in terrorism inside Pakistan and suicide attacks are all issues which is going to collide with the wall of current system.
The politicians must think about Pakistan and government should make the worth of itself by delivering the real democracy otherwise ‘Changes are waiting to happen’.
