BY SIKANDER HAYAT
I have written before and there is a need for me to write it again that Mr Asif Ali Zardari has done what no other in Pakistan Peoples Party could do and that is to fight for the same people against whom founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto fought against and eventually gave his life.
People Party was a party which stood for the oppressed and marginalised, which promised ‘roti,kapra or makaan’ to the masses and which fought for the right of the people to protest. To protest against the injustice of the state, to protest against the overbearing establishment and protest for the right to protest.
Mr Zardari has shown that he is not capable of handling the party which was once lead by a giant like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto let alone lead a country of 160 million people. He has shown himself to be an incompetent ruler who has turned the running of government into a small time business. He acts like someone who is most comfortable in a smoke filled drawing room where influence is bought and sold like a commodity.
Pakistan and the people of Pakistan are not a commodity, they demand that the promises be fulfilled by those who have made them in the first place. They want a statesman as their leader not a political dwarf like Mr Zardari who has misplayed all his cards by brutalising his own people and who spat on the face of democratic values.
Saying all that, Pakistanis do not want a return to the military rule, they do not want another Musharraf ( a military or a non military one) so the military must stay away. If there is a need for thousand new elections, let them take place but under no circumstances should the military come out of barracks again because this time people of Pakistan have had enough, their patience has run its course and now only rage is left.
This time anyone who goes against their wishes will do so at their own peril.
I have written before and there is a need for me to write it again that Mr Asif Ali Zardari has done what no other in Pakistan Peoples Party could do and that is to fight for the same people against whom founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto fought against and eventually gave his life.
People Party was a party which stood for the oppressed and marginalised, which promised ‘roti,kapra or makaan’ to the masses and which fought for the right of the people to protest. To protest against the injustice of the state, to protest against the overbearing establishment and protest for the right to protest.
Mr Zardari has shown that he is not capable of handling the party which was once lead by a giant like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto let alone lead a country of 160 million people. He has shown himself to be an incompetent ruler who has turned the running of government into a small time business. He acts like someone who is most comfortable in a smoke filled drawing room where influence is bought and sold like a commodity.
Pakistan and the people of Pakistan are not a commodity, they demand that the promises be fulfilled by those who have made them in the first place. They want a statesman as their leader not a political dwarf like Mr Zardari who has misplayed all his cards by brutalising his own people and who spat on the face of democratic values.
Saying all that, Pakistanis do not want a return to the military rule, they do not want another Musharraf ( a military or a non military one) so the military must stay away. If there is a need for thousand new elections, let them take place but under no circumstances should the military come out of barracks again because this time people of Pakistan have had enough, their patience has run its course and now only rage is left.
This time anyone who goes against their wishes will do so at their own peril.
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