Re: History of Intolerant political culture in Pakistan
I’m talking of the culture that had life of common men miserable. Not a single week goes without traffic jams due to rallies by political parties. There is no sense in political leadership to address this issue.
These issues start from a statement and then political workers show street power to block traffic and sometimes destroying public property. Not a single political party has any concern about this situation, because they don’t find it odd.
Statements against someones character were given since per-partition era. Today, Imran Khan is called playboy, Mr Jinah had also got some titles (not to be mentioned). Shaikh Rasheed was quite free to compare Bilawal with Faisal Saleh Hayat, but in per-partition, Muslim League workers labelled wife a Muslim Congress leader as ‘Kafira’, though the lady had nothing to do with the politics and remained under purdah all her life.