Re: Pre-Election Deal and post election scenerio
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..
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).
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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..
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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.
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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..
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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.