1st thing 1st, there are no simple or 5 mins, or 9 days or 90 days or one year or 3 year or 5 year solution for Pakistan's problem.
2nd thing, Pakistan have not got a single problem to start with, if there are 8 dimensions in geometry, Pakistan have 16 or more dimensions when it comes to problem.
Solution to all this, well like i said, it won't be solved in a day or two, it would take a decade to reach break-even, but it have to start from somewhere, and this party would be the starting point. No big hopes pinned on them, only hope is, they start moving in right direction.. or can determine the direction...
i am not saying we dont need more parties ... I am just commenting on contours of this new party per Haroon's article. seems little odd. that is all. By the way, i am a firm believer that a businessman shd not be a full time politician...huge conflict of interest. we have seen what nawaz clan and zardar did .....
By the way, just to think about it - PPP at it's peak under ZAB was far more socialist sounding and successfully imaged itself as a common man's party than MQM could ever imagine or even come close to it. It was PPP that first chanted the slogan of roti, kapra or makaan, and earned nation wide popularity, not MQM. Hence, there is a reason why PPP is considered Pakistan first contemporary national and 'common man's' party. MQM to this day has never managed to gain any success and goodwill outside of Karachi despite being in politics for 30 or so years. They truly are just a city based mafia.
I'm almost excited about this party, I followed the recent Greek elections quite closely with contained eagerness and the truth to be told, I would love to anything like Syriza emerge in Pakistan. Yes, that's the kind of party and individuals you need in Pakistan, not just another rich boys' club made of retired army men, bureaucrats and businessmen (hello, another PMLN-II in making?). Where are the engineers, teachers, academics, lawyers, Union leaders, students...they need to form new organisations and pressure groups.
But looks like this new party will also go through the same phase as PTI. Everyone (mostly ex PTI rejects or 'once a upon a time fans) will rush to associate with the party whilst it is still a niche group. Sing its praise and call it the 'right thing' in order to look different, feel special and righteous by not being part of the popular crowd. But as soon as the party will become publicly popular, and part of the political system, those same fans will leave the party, consider it 'dirty and untouchable' and start hoping for the third 'new pure party and the third new pure messiah. You see how literally every second person in Pakistan says 'ah yeah, once upon a time, me, my grandma, my cat, my dog, my neighbours, we were all part of baby PTI, but we soon left once baby PTI grew out of its push chair'. Big deal.
Unless and until Pakistanis start to get serious about fixing their rotten electoral system which is so open to systematic abuse and vandalism from bottom to top, no amounts of political parties, new leaders or lone warriors will be able to give any quick fix. Fix the fundamental of democracy first.
And no its doesn't have to take 'decades'. Pakistanis don't have the luxury of wasting time and few more generations. It's a nation of very capable people, and they have every opportunity and reason to start taking control of things from today.
whoever those would be, i hope they are better than what we have we have got at hand.
The same man was saying same words when he was on duty of establishment to promote PTI
Nothing more than an attempt to weaken present big parties .
You can connect it with BOL
The same man was saying same words when he was on duty of establishment to promote PTI
Nothing more than an attempt to weaken present big parties .
You can connect it with BOL
PTI had its chance, it was runied by its stupid leader and his stardom attitude/ego
And i didnt say Altaf was chairman of AAP if you were gonna say that too.
I obviously was talking about similarities not the differences. Among all the parties in Pakistan MQM was (and to an extent even today) common mens party dealing with common issues which broke in to castle of established giant parties. Both are city based party having educated audience working to resolve issues. But obviously MQM today is not the same MQM which was founded decades ago.
There was no castle of PML or PPP in Karachi even b4 MQM, so you are wrong.