Re: MQMs new challenge
What can I say about statement without knowing what statement you are referring?
I did no heard his whole speech, but what he said that made lot of people upset was that addressing Pakistani establishment he said ‘IF you do not want to accept Mandate of Karachi then make Karachi separate’.
If that is the statement you are referring to then, either you did not understood what he said, you heard partially, or you do not want to understand. To understand you have to see what he said. You cannot say that … since one said ‘La-i-la-ha’ (there is no God) a person is atheist, but you have to see what a person is saying, and that means you have to take the pharase ‘il-lal-lah’ (but ‘The God’) into account.
In same way, you have to take into account word ‘agar’ (or ‘IF’) in his statement.
We should understand that either a country has military rule, where citizen are all same and no one is above other (in other word all are ruled equally)
Or
Country should have democracy where voters should be treated equally and voters mandate should be acceptable.
But in democracy, if mandate of a party is not accepted than party (and their voters) are not equal to rest, rather they are ruled, and that means making them live as occupied or ‘people of colony’. In that situation, colonised people would look for their right (that is what happened in 1971 when, mujeeb-ur-Rahman mandate became unacceptable to establishment of the time resulting in break-up of Pakistan),
Anyhow, You might ask that what about mandate a party got from rigging?
Answer is simple, that is, if rigging is happening than no party can be blamed for that but ‘caretaker government, Judiciary, lower judiciary, government functionaries looking after voting process, election commission, establishment, army, rangers, police’ … who should not be partial and should conduct election all over the country sincerely and efficiently.
But if these people in position are not sincere and efficient, then blaming one party or another of rigging and then questioning their mandate would again be asking for trouble.
For instance, PMLN rigged present election in Punjab. Some might say same about PTI rigging election in KPK and most seats they won. Same one could say about PPP rigging election in interior Sindh. But if establishment and other parties start rejecting mandate of one party (for instance mandate of PMLN) calling that as rigged mandate and reject their right on that basis then that would cause problem same as rejecting mandate of any other party mentioned above.
And that is why I wrote what I wrote in my last post that do not blame any party, but blame the system that exist and then bring improvement in the system all across Pakistan, so that no rigging could happen. That is, if establishment want to see Pakistan as one country than have to bring fairness across the country. They cannot have election result due to rigging all across the country from all parties, but allege one party of rigging (I am using the word allege, because no parties accept they rig).