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Why You Should Ignore Javed Hashmi](https://www.facebook.com/notes/ahmed-quraishi/why-you-should-ignore-javed-hashmi/10152700031644108)

September 1, 2014 at 4:06pm
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Pakistan’s youth should not give much importance to Javed Hashmi’s politics. He represents our past, not the future.*
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Javed Hashmi deserves respect for one thing only: his age.*
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Apart from that, Hashmi has been part of the problem in the ailing Pakistani democracy, not the solution.*
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His political career started thanks to late President General Zia-ul-Haq. He owes his growth, his place in politics and in power to a military-led government.*
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He came into politics in 1985 along with Nawaz Sharif.*
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As true democrats, both were handpicked by the military government at the time because they were young Pakistanis and new faces. Gen. Zia was very progressive in this regard. He saw how Pakistani political parties failed to allow young Pakistanis to come to the top, so he ensured that the 1985 elections packed a maximum number of young faces. Chaudhry Nisar was also among them.*
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But no one, including Gen. Zia, could have predicted that these new young faces will go on to amass wealth and monopolize Pakistani politics for the next 29 years.*
This ‘Gang of 1985’ has seized control of Punjab, the province with the most seats in the federal parliament. It has also seized Pakistan Muslim League, the party that led the Pakistan Independence Movement under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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Today, the PML is a personal property of the Sharifs. In their 29 years, the family and its relatives, allies and cronies have mutilated the federal and Punjab bureaucracies, and the Punjab police.*
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Javed Hashmi was with the Sharifs when the family made fortunes in power.*
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Hashmi was in the inner circle of the Sharifs when they received money from the military to create IJI, a political group.*
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Hashmi supported the Sharifs when they started the trend of ‘Lifafa (envelope) Journalism’ in Pakistan.*
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Hashmi supported the Sharifs when they brought gangsters and criminals to attack the building of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.*
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So, Javed Hashmi is a non-issue. Move on to real issues.*
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Right now, the real issues facing Pakistanis are three:

1. PM Nawaz Sharif’s inability and failure to rule Pakistan and manage politics
2. The Islamabad Massacre of Aug. 31 and the Lahore Massacre of June 17
3. The organized PMLN campaign against Pakistan Armed Forces

This is what we should focus on.*
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Leave Javed Hashmi to enjoy some limelight at the sunset of his political career.

– By Ahmed Quraishi

His flip-flopping was getting ridiculous. It’s good PTI has parted with him.