a loaded topic indeed… please do not convert it into ethnic war.
A lot is going on in Sindh, cities and smaller towns are getting some space to breathe, All the stakeholders, stalkers and common people are looking at this unbelievable change from their own perspective; the targeted ones reconsidering their own plans, strategies and tactics for surviving the onslaught, and the common man onlooking with the cautious optimism that this is real and it is going to stay…and as the writer says further
The question has always been, why are the Sindhis not accepting Pakistan?
But the right question should be, is the establishment ready to accept Sindh? Can they live with the emerging middle class of Sindh?
Honestly speaking , there is so much mis-trust with in sindh against " ESTABLISHMENT " that I dont see they are going to find another alternate than PPP. Same goes for Urban sindh.
Operations may give short term relief . Only long term electoral process and free media will make people ask questions to their MPAs and MNAs as well as Local representatives.. and ultimately there will emerge new political forces
What exactly is there about "establishment" that they so fear and hate? Is it an ethnic factor or what?
It makes me wonder just how much they hate they have for "establishment" that they are willing to vote for incompetent PPP again and again, just to keep the "establishment" out. Are they like seen as 'foreign' invaders or something?
Who represents the establishment there anyway? Do these people have names and faces?
...It makes me wonder just how much they hate they have for "establishment" that they are willing to vote for incompetent PPP again and again, just to keep the "establishment" out. Are they like seen as 'foreign' invaders or something?
Yes, these are serious questions for the establishment to think about.
To be very frank in rural areas establishment is not that much of an issue, the real thing is wadera (who are mostly with PPP) and some people revere the bhutto's more of peeri mureedi kind of relationship.
Yes, these are serious questions for the establishment to think about.
Establishment can only do much if Prince Bilawal, after his father losing the elections for 5 years of worst government goes to Sindh and say Punjabi establishment conspired against us and hence we lost. Really? You were that good that you were hoping to get re-elected?
Establishment can only do much if landed feudals do not want schools, local body elections to take place in order to pass the power down the grass root, don't want to end bonded labour, eradicate poverty and establish health care.
But who are the establishment and what is the worst they can do if they come in Sindh? Really, are they seen foreign invaders or something?
To be very frank in rural areas establishment is not that much of an issue, the real thing is wadera (who are mostly with PPP) and some people revere the bhutto's more of peeri mureedi kind of relationship.
Arif Alvi has been saying for quite sometime how feudals in interior Sindh stopped wheat/water supply to some families (or even villages) because their sons were involved in attending PTI jalsas, or voted for them.
Now Arif Alvi is a Sindhi, and seems like a decent chap. I think he cares for Sindh, but if someone accuses him of lying and conspiring to work with establishment. I don't know what else anyone can do.
Anyway, establishment whoever they are and whatever their plans are, just need to stay out of Sindh. If those people are happy voting for PPP for another 50 years because they don't have an 'alternative', so be it. Do not '"impose" anything on them, learn from history and stay well clear.
After putting Balochistan on some sort of track, you cannot afford to stir anything in Sindh. These regions have very complex socio-economic and ethnic make up and deeply established feudal power hierarchy, and any silly short sightedness seems to bear generation long consequences. So establishment needs to have some mercy on themselves, I think they have had enough mitti paleed.
Okay I just finished reading the article. Just how many times the author mentioned "culture" closely followed by language in the article. Not a single mention of education, health care, justice, employment anywhere in the article? You look at the condition of Sindh and see what the Sindhi "intellectuals" consider "pressing" issues, yeah language, culture. Same old stuff. So baffling. Depressing even. Honestly.
Even in first world country like Britain, the Scottish Referendum was dominated by issues like health care, welfare reforms, university fees and economy. Okay fine if Sindhis have this out of the world attachment with their language and culture, but I don't know how establishment can help them with their pressing language and culture issues? What do you want them to do?
This whole emphasis and repeated mention of respecting Sindh "historical and geography unity" is basically a coded plea saying don't you even think about creating new provinces in Sindh.
Again, establishment need to stay out of this whole thing. It was important to clean Karachi because your economic hub cannot remain a war zone, but other than that they should have no role to play in Sindh's politics for their own sake. It's not worth it.