Re: Pre-Election Deal and post election scenerio
Compare result of 1993 or earlier election with 1997 election, and situation would be obvious. In constituencies where winners use to get over 100,000 votes in earlier election, winners of 1997 got less than 10000 votes.
No doubt PTI has done quite good in 2013 election. Actually, votes of PPP, JI and most other parties fell to PTI. But nevertheless, Karachi constituencies are quite big, much bigger than constituencies at other places. It is obvious, as population of Karachi is ‘11 to 12’ percent of Pakistan, but Karachi only has around 7.5 percent NA seats (reason … unknown).
Hmm … well, please read the situation and think why I called them mentally retards.
Let say, there was a group of people. In the group most were downtrodden people or servant class (classified as lower, lower-middle, middle, upper middle class) who could hardly meet their day to day expenses and had many problems in life. Nevertheless, in the group there were also elite or master class (big landlords, Jageerdars, Zamindars, Sardars, Industrialist, Rich, Influential, and so on). Poor downtrodden people were mostly workers of these elite class who had habit of exploiting, abusing and treating them like Sh*t.
One day poor in group decided that they need a community servant (Khadim-e-Aalla) who could serve them collectively and look after their interest. Servant job had some privileges and all started wanting to become servant, so group decided that they would elect their servant.
When election time came, people from elite class also jumped in for job of servant. That was fine, but unfortunate happened is that group (mostly poor voters) started electing the most notorious person from elite master class as servant.
Result: As expected. Elected servant used the position as license to further exploit, torment and abuse poor and vulnerable (most voters).
Whose fault: Poor in group or their Masters from privileged elite?
I think poor in group (voters) who decided to elect their master as servant and started expecting that their master would really start serving them and looking after their interest.
To me, no person with little intelligence would expect that masters (who are notorious in Pakistan anyhow) would start serving their servants just because they got elected to serve as servant. Actually, to me, only a mentally retard (voters who vote their masters to be their servant) could make such expectation.
You are right, MQM is no exception. It was sad that they started waving bat in air, abusing and challenging their opponents, and threatening their opponents by calling names in abusive way and telling them that they would do their ‘phaitee’ (good beating) with the bat.