Editorial
Dr. Busharat Elahi Jamil
Pakistan’s traditional politics suggests its sole purpose not to serve the nation but only the mal-practices of cruelty, inhumanity, in-tolerance and scoring personal objectives. The power politics changed the meanings of democracy in Pakistan limiting this game of throne to 2% class with confounded powers.
This certain political stratum has no concern with 98% general population and the development of the country. These are the people or the generations of those lords or aristocrats who have never faced poverty or realities of daily life means that they have no taste of the real life. Their politics is lacks true political ethics, tolerance and factual democratic spirit, which leads them to a state of absolute ignorance. This very ignorance dictates to challenge each other’s political as well as religious status, which is not appropriate by all means for the solidarity and unity of the country. These shameless practices rather lead them to a chaos.
Current un-natural collative government of PDM is consisted on various schools of thoughts like religious, nationalist, racist, liberal and rigid political assemblages. Historically, it is clear from their political history that they are partially in a collation only due to their opportunistic and personal objectives. Because they will contest next elections according to their own party manifestos, and their current philosophy is temporary and diverse to their own party manifestos.
Imran Khan and his PTI is surrounded by the traditional and opportunistic politicians. He enchants slogans to uplift the lower classes of the society, basic rights, improve the services sector and proper representation of weak classes. However, his practices contradict because he failed to score a reasonable representation in the parliament from the lower stratum. Landlords, business class and industrialists reached the parliament using the political platform of the PTI. Moreover, he was a critic of the inherent politics, but in recent by-elections PTI awarded their ticket to Maharbao Qureshi the daughter of Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
The antagonistic politics of the recent opposition and government coalitions have created political awareness and social burnout among the common people. Furthermore, social media and somehow electronic media played vital role in it. These political factors may work as a wake-up call to open pool of talent, obsolete ideas and so-called services of the traditional politicians. And if the people continue to wake up like this, the day is not far when corrupt politicians will be held accountable. Furthermore, it determines that in the coming decades, there will be a successful player in Pakistani politics to represent the common people and the third power must also realize this. Otherwise the consequences have the potential to target their prestige and dignity in the country.