Re: PML-N Jalsa in Larkana
Well said, and I agree with every thing you mentioned in your post. Although I don’t subscribe to the politics of peoples party but still I consider it to be a patriotic party. We all have different ways of looking at the same thing, during this tenure the government has had some wins (18th amendment, NFC award and a host of other amendments), but on the accounts of economy, corruption, energy etc they have failed.
In the past some people used to consider MQM, and ANP to be anti Pakistan parties now they’re considered patriotic. No one gives any one the mandate to declare others anti Pakistan. One good thing during the recent times is that the habit of declaring each other unpatriotic has ended in the mainstream political parties. Even if we consider this memogate thing to be authentic, some people will consider that to be an anti Pakistan etc, and the others can say that the army itself was communicating with the Americans (peoples party just tried to use that link for strengthening democracy/averting danger to democracy). Parties should compete each other through policies and not through blame game alone.
We should even talk even to the people who 'are anti Pakistan (Violence begets violence). There has been a lot of bloodshed, now the people are really fed up and need respite from that. The blame game and labelling opposing parties as unpatriotic only increases the distances and polarization, which is a recipe for disaster. We need unity to survive and develop in the comity of nations.