Wishful PTI wants us to make-belief that this gut-soup is chow-mein. Unless one is senseless by using some high end drugs, gut-soup will always taste like gut-soup. Handful honest journalists who continuously exposed PPP govt from 2008-13 & didn't budge against all temptations & odds of Nawaz Sharif reign 2013-18, have been betrayed by Imran Khan's mantra of 'electables'. Because now those noteable electables of respective constituencies have become quintessential to IK's parachute entry into PM house. IK's honest mistakes like siding with Pervez Musharraf, contributing towards re-instating Ch Iftikhar, promoting friendship with Taliban, ridiculous finger of 3rd umpire, unfathomable call for civil disobedience (nothing compares to this one); were all acceptable because he was not a stereotype & was liable to commit mistakes.
However, PTI's mainstay has always been an unflintching drive against corruption. With the help of a very little honest investigative journalists, PTI continuously exposed all corrupt political practices including money laundering, favortism in bureaucracy, land mafia, bhatta mafia, political appointees & so on. But now when one sees the same Army of electables receiving magical red & green scarf at Bani Gala which miraculously obliterates dark sopts in their past & most have won party ticket for elections as well, one feels betrayed. One moment IK is idealogue & the other moment, in complete contrast he appears pragmatic stereotype.
Ok lets unbox science of electables in explicit terms.Fathers of those electables polished shoes of British to win lands & influence in respective territories. They polished shoes of NS & Zardari & now of their rightful heirs Bilawal, Mariam & Hamza, not for any ideology but to have SHOs of their choice in their areas. Once SHO is in their pockets, any one in the constituency can have red marks on their buttocks & they won't even be able to tell anyone what actually happened to them. Rest of the govt machinery was controlled by the party leadership through loyal pets in DMG & provincial admnistration groups. People who have been hereditarily addicted to this way of life will change Pakistan as team members of IK? Unfortunately, PTI is also likely to transform into a private limited like rest of them. People may keep betting on leadership acumen of IK to sort them all out but scribe shares apprehensions now because its not about proving anything its about future of Pakistan. Which by the way, is the most difficult country to govern. With volatile borders all along, fragile internal security & clinically dead economy, governing Pakistan next term will be a momentous task. But, in cricketimg terms, fielding a team full of losers & counting on captaincy alone is at best suicidal.
There should have been some filters in place before accepting political waste of other parties. Only external filters like hue & cry at social media & electronic media forced IK to revisit few of his decisions, rest his advisors have been a serious disappointment. Likewise, mediation b/w Jkt & SMQ was also his responsibility as party head but their bickering is already out in public.
Only, logic for his electable strategy that comes to mind is that probably he thinks that his prime is way behind him & he had to act fast & now & he needed a shortcut to book a berth at PM House . Whereas, at his age, NS had become thrice PM but that is no comparison as Allah gave IK success in different ways. However, his lack of trust on young honest Pakistanis is deplorable. Any amount of deliberate compromise on principles, some how comes back to haunt us.
Lastly, the political culture has been further ruined by abuse brigade of PTI at social media. Lets admit it, IK has tendencies to ghoof up & if we have him as the best choice then we have to keep him on his toes. But if honest criticism is shot down with abuse then their is little hope for change. Thanks to talk shows (anchors & politicians), we have become a nation of accomplished 'spin doctors'. Spontaneous lying, twisting facts & manipulating arguments has become the order of the day. A cancer that continues to grow by the day. Traces of this disease are visible in our day to day dealings.
Pakistan also craves for stable, reliable & clear headed leadership since Jinnah. However, actions of political leadership cannot exceed their IQ & 'values'. But real problem lies in political affiliations of common people. Political leadership can commit mistakes & we need to take firm & polite stance to stop the growth of wrong practices may it be our favorite leader. Unfortunately, moral compass of political workers & political affiliates points only towards political leadership they favor and not towards principles. Merely out of political affinity, they argue in support of their political dieties. When they fall short on logic they resort to spinning the issue & when that does not work they get abusive. Wonder where are we heading with this approach. We were supposed to be the responsible generation where buck of irrational political behavior had to stop.But it seems that Pakistan has to wait at least one more generation before a visible change comes to pass.Our generation seems to have missed the train & failed to affect positive changes in political culture of this country & unless political milieu changes, change will remain a distant reality.
Only Allah knows the whole Truth.
Hope is only blessing of Allah in such like situation but it should be practical
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ReplyDeleteSuch a fragile political system we are passing through so far, change seems to be a distant dream
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