Pre-Election Deal and post election scenerio

[yazdi]

Re: Pre-Election Deal and post election scenerio

@Sa1eem

MQM may be doing what others do, but only problem is that when MQM boycott election people with below 10000 votes win NA constituencies where there are over 300000 votes (remember 1997 election).

On the other hand it always make me proud to know that people of Karachi vote genuine graduates who live in same community as their neighbours, work with commitment while in government or out of government, and party top leadership are not greedy of parliament seats (they do not even care to contest election) or chair of power (Kursi).

Such illuminative behaviour of Karachiettes is exceptional in third world politics, especially Pakistani tribal politics, where poor Pakistanis vote for their own tormentors, exploiters, persecutors, looters and deceivers … people who are ‘Angotha chaap Corrupt to core Waderas, Jageerdars, Pirs, Industrialists, shop-keepers, Sardars, and Brotherhood thugs. In short, voters vote non-equal thugs whom these voters serve all their life (cleaning their toilets), still show retarded mentality by expecting that these thugs would serve them when in power … how funny.

Most of these retarded voters do not even see how luxuriously and where leaders who they think would serve them live. Voters’ expectation to get served by their masters expecting their masters to serve them when in power is pinnacle of expectation … or emptiness of upper chamber.

First of all it’s not 1997.. so wake up brother.. (There are more than a million votes casted to parties other than MQM in election 2013 in Karachi.. PTI alone got a share of more than 700,000)… The myth of MQM’s educated voters was totally broken during the recent elections as most of the educated class in Karachi voted for PTI..

Secondly who gives you a right to question the intelligence of Pakistani electorate by calling them retarded? They have shown maturity and have punished the non performers. They have shown with their wisdom that no political party is immortal.. if they don’t perform or change with time.. they will be shown political death..

MQM is no exception.. While we appreciate the middle class back ground of most of their parliamentarians.. we can not ignore the threatening attitude of the lifetime leader of this party who thinks threatening media and political opponents to submission will still work. If this attitude of the “British National” who who claims to be the life long leader of this regional political group does not change.. I am pretty sure the people of Karachi will make him a political non entity.. Unlike you I trust the wisdom of Karachi electorate which you think are just a herd of sheep following blindly a cult leader who continues to threat violence and break up of the country..

The honeymoon begins - Babar Sattar

What the PTI deserves credit for is the courage shown by its leaders and supporters in Karachi in face of threats of physical violence by Altaf Hussain. **It goes without saying that fascist tendencies implicit in pre-emptively justifying the likelihood of party workers losing their minds and savaging critics is neither legal nor acceptable in any civilised society. More importantly Pakistan has changed much over the last decade. Bellowing threats at all and sundry – political opponents, media, judges, establishment et el – is now counterproductive.

By the next election, technology alone will make it impossible to rig elections. With an independent media, a bold judiciary, a vocal civil society and continuity of democracy, the strategy of threatening opponents and critics into submission will no longer work. If there is any lesson in the treatment just meted out to the PPP, it is that a political party can nurture a sense of immortality only at its own peril. These are changing times and only those who change along with it will survive and thrive. It will be a shame if an urban middle class party such as the MQM cannot see the writing on the wall and reinvent itself.**