Re: History of Intolerant political culture in Pakistan
But that’s like that everyone, it’s just in Western countries, they have a mature political structure and established system and therefore the politcal mud slinging from parties doesn’t look too bad. I must also add that decolonisation was an ugly, ugly business.
Did the modern day Pakistan ever had a genuine political culture to define any ethos? Had democracy was given a chance, perhaps things would’ve been much difference. We had plenty of political experiments but never a political culture.
I would also say people of Pakistan are either easily impressed or disappointment, they are quick to form hardline judgements over minor things. I clearly remember during elections time, you made a pretty big deal about Imran referring to NS as ‘O Miyan Saab’ - despite both men belonging to the same age group and sharing a bitter-sweet history. Imran was unjustly criticized for that whereas in Britain - one of world’s oldest and greatest modern democracies - the PM can call opposition leader sitting right in front of him a ‘turkey’ and no one would get so massively upset and emotional. Imagine had the same banter taken place between NS and Khureed Shah? I guess after saying that, I am just proving that Pakistanis are quite intolerant and tragically lack a sense of humour. Things can only be black and white, there’s no in-between.