Our Proud Politicians!!!

[Diploma Holder Khoso]

Politicians are like a superstitious metal having outer layer of gold and inner one of coal!! People say that!!! Well! as for as resemblance of this definition with that of our Pakistani politicians is concerned I am afraid to say that it completely fits with most of our politicians, who patently pretend to be the true representative of the people but intrinsically they just want to extinguish there lust for power by deceiving common people by false pledges and promises of prosperity, employment and provision of basic infrastructure.
Let’s consider the deeds of our politicians in the light of the original definition of Politics; POLITICS is basically a Greek derivate of word politikos, from politus ‘citizen’, from polis ‘city’. Interpretably saying politics is social phenomena to resolve the issue concerned to the common people, Greek people living in there towns used to gather on a particular place and discussed over the major issues faced by the inhabitants of that particular town, as result of the meeting different people were given the responsibilities.
It is same as much but the cause and the attitude of the participants have changed to a great extent. Meeting places are called assemblies these days and issues under consideration are different from that of Greek’s. Our assemblies have become a sort of battle fields for opposition and establishment where so called-``people’s representatives`` take on each other by baptizing and despising each other. Instead of talking over problems of common people they just blame each other of being the real obstacle in the cause of restoration of democracy. Have anyone of you ever heard of an assembly being convened for cause of the people, for the interest of people, for the benefit of the common people, has an assembly ever convened for cause of destitute people, for the cause of justice, for the cause of emancipation of people from capitalism, emancipation of people from feudalism, emancipation from terrorism, emancipation from inflation, from poverty, from persecution and ignorance?????
You know why???? Because they are not aware of the problems of the common people. Most of our politicians belong to royal families where they are provided with every facility of the modern life, they study abroad, they live in luxurious bungalows, servants serve them, and they are cured by foreign doctors. 40 lakes for treatment of a tooth. Can they feel the pangs of a cobbler who merely earns 70 rupees a day and feeds his numerous children????? Can they feel the pangs of parents of those children who collect papers from the road??? Can they feel the pangs of a farmer whose prepares his fields by perpetual physical toil and finally sees devastation of it due to absence of water?????
The future is always in your hands my friends, coz we are who chose them as our leaders not even taking in consideration there background the result is exploitation, inflation, unemployment, poverty and a long list of problems. Believe me everyone here in our country is sick of these politicians!! One can ask a question that if people are sick of them then how they come to power? The answer is simple that our people actually are straightforward they are blown by the personality of the politicians, they trust them they hope that they would do goods, they are kind of beaten by the evil eloquence of politicians during the election campaign, I am afraid to say that people here choose their leader on the basis of personality instead of performance, they don’t even dare to ask them that what had you done when u were in the power last time.
Just slogans don’t bring changes for a nation, slogans don’t change futures, mere personality is not a good choice, a personality without performance is airplane without a pilot!!!
The international world is on the apex of the development, no need to go far away take an example our neighbor country Iran, they are developing by leaps and bounds especially in the field of atomic energy, even the USA and European Union are unable to deteriorate them from their program, their President Ahmedinijad is said to be a son of a goldsmith from Tehran, Ahmedinijad was made Mayer of Tehran he changed the look of Tehran entirely, as a result he became the Presidential candidate for the first time and consequently became the President and now the man has put Iran amongst the most powerful countries in the atomic race. He was not a renowned personality and didn’t have political background, contrary to his rivals like Hashmi Rafsanjani who was renowned personality along with many others in presidential run, But why did people preferred Nijad over others was the fact that Nijad had performance while others had mere personality and people of Iran, where literacy rate is about 85%, know the differences between personality and performance……………But we don’t care we don’t… u know because we believe in political pedigrees, so what if one has plunged treasury of country,??? So what if one is corrupt??? So what if one has made a mess of country’s economy???? So what if one is an international criminal????????? We don’t care we don’t … The thing that matters is he is famous personality he became prime minister before, he would bring prosperity,,, only “he”,,,,, no one else,,,,,, what a new man who has just entered the political arena can do for us??????? Politics is not a child’s play………. So we would stick to the old tigers even if these tigers victimize ourselves!!!!!!!
It looks nearly impossible for our people to bring about any change in their selection of leaders, as a result politicians are also not gonna bring about any change to their attitude.
So only a miracle can change our people, and unfortunately miracles don’t occur where people wait for them to occur!!!!
Finally I would like to invite each and every one of you to think about solution, I would be very thankful to you for finding a solution for this vexed problem! And sharing it with me!!!!
Thanks a lot for giving me your precious time!
God bless you…..
God bless Pakistan…..

[zaman]

Yes totally agreed with you that politicians deceive common people and get elected and have no concern for common man and dont take pain of any pain of common Man.
Also agreed that our people are equally responsible for this situation.
i share you some realities.
our most of population live in rural areas.
what is trend there?
most people are poor families ,they just live from hand to mouth ,they are not aware of Iftikhar Chaudrry,Dr AQ Khan,judicial crises,Nuclear proliferation,Terrorism,and many such issues.

what they know?
how to earn so much money for operation of his son,
how to het money for marriage of daughter,
how to get money for home making
so they are involved so much in their many many problems like that that they have no concern for any issues ,they even dont know what are rights of citizens in pakistan constitution.

why they Vote for corrupt politicians.
these poor people are their peasants ,these poor people get help from these lords ,these people are forced to follow these lords.
for example if the son of farmer is in police custody what will he do???
Is our police stations are so civilized that a common ,illiterate man can go to police station.
what will he do?
he will go to Chaudry sb,Mkahdom sb,Gelani sb,Chema Sb ,Rana Sb,Malik Sb.Shah sb for help.
so in return these poor people will be give them vote and consider these people their "Mohsin"
they dont care what is food price,what is power crises,judicial crises,Kashmir issue,

Now what is attitude of Middle Class or people in citizies.
Many people from Middle class and elite class ,they have independent living so they consider election as bullshit and dont go for casting votes.
Some people are bound to give votes for theIR Bradery
Some people also give vote to honest people and these people are also elected ,but they are small in number so they also become part of this diry ,corrpt system.
,Honest people dont become candidate for election because it is said that for election in Pakitan a MNA mUST HAVE 20 cAROR atleast for advertisement,to give to People.
So thats y these people come to power.
dont think that a poor man is honest and farishta ?
these poor people ,they are most dis honest but if they have availibility.
example ,A ricksha driver can kill a man for some thousands.

Solution
Need to aware the people ,for this judiciary must be independent in true sense,and people must be provided basic needs so that they were not in shackles of slavery of feudal lords.
Democracy is basically for literate ,modern society
so we must concentrate on education of people.

[ARSLAN BHATTI]

hmmmm ur observation seems to be nice..
but i need ur help now.
would u plz tell me scope of political dynamics ?? ??? ??? generally

[Diploma Holder Khoso]

salam Dear Zaman,

i appreciate your ideas, v look to be standing on the same bank of the river, but dear u pointed out the need of independant judiciary and education. yes v must improve education rate but as 4 as judiciary independence is concerned i dont think it can prove revolutionary, because judiciary problem is new, but our people are backward right from the inception of Pakistan. it was the same cheif justice who brought Musharaf and passed much time under his era, but now Musharaf is dictactor for them, no one asks them that y CJ didnot resist dictator on the first day??????

[zaman]

Yes dear ,CJ did not oppose to Musharaf at first.
it means that if a person does wrong in the start and at last he does right so we blame him that why in the start he did not do this.
No Dear ,this is not the way.
Your Champion of democracy ,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ,once he was supporter of Ayub dictator.
Your ardent supporter of democracy ,Nawaz Shareef ,once he was supporter of dictator Zia,
Same examples from history that people like iftikhar chaudhry ,they produced from dirty system but at the end they stood before this sytem and got the name in history.
take example of Hazrat UMar ,he was coming to Kill prophet but then the same Umar was Umar Bin khitab.

Iftikhar Chaudry ,he stood before establishment ,role of law.
Many people got relief without even filing petition ,through sou moto action.

If media and judiciary are independent ,then they can produce awareness and can become voice of people.

Judiciary can raise the issue of privitization without caring wishes of government.
it can give relief by banning Bassant.
Independent judiciary is check on government ,
so take example ,if a feudal lord involve in some illegal work ,media can bring it to light and if parliament does not take action ,judiciary can come into action

so dear our people were backward since partition because our judiciary did support to every dictator and every government .

" A state of disbelieves may last but not a state of injustice"(Hazrat Ali)

So i think ,media and judiiciary should be independent

[awansarmad]

nice discussion guys !!! But according to my theory of EVOLUTION OF MAN :

POLITICIAN > MONKEY > MAN

[Diploma Holder Khoso]

salam dear zaman,

i pray that this may be the return of the judiciary to their actual and pure form, it will be for the first time, i for ur sake now wait and hope that Judiciary establishes law and order if they are reinstated. i hope may Allah give them his benovelence to come on the rightous path.
according to ur view of the current situatuation,
it seems u r of a blief that each pakistani citizen is gonna get Justice, rights,security if judiciary is reinstated.
That would be like an impossible dream come true.
We wait and see wether CJ is gonna follow the path of Hazrat umar or not?

Thanx a lot mate
Diploma Holder

[zaman]

Yes ,judiciary must be independent but it will not be in true perspective .

Reason is that
1) if judiciary is independent ,it can take Stay order on NRO ,Which is just for vested interests ,so how can these corrupt people can affors.
2) if judiciary is independent ,it will re open cases of disappeared people ,so how America can afford and our intelligent agencies can bear that there is some one who can challenge their authority.
3) if judiciary is independent ,it can hear case of president validity ,so how ,these people can afford to out preesident from Game because our Minister says that Musharaf is asset for Nation.
4) if judiciary is independent ,it can release Dr A.Q Khan.
5) if judiciary is independent ,these feudal lords will have check and balance so how can these illiterate people can afford.

so ,i dont expect that Mr Zardari and his party( that has most feudal lords) is sincere in these attempts .

MQM ,PML(Q) is against this.

only leading role of PML(N) ,lawyers,civil society can perform their role.

So i dont see that ,ideal situation will happen.