Re: Shahbaz Sharif hops on a motorbike to get to flood affected areas
You’ve simply reiterated what I’m trying to say. The awam totally inept and illiterate as it is, will always back those it perceives to be powerful, for they depend on the powerful lot for their own survival. And now ask y ourself who’re the powerful? Those who’re backed by the establishment, feudals, local mafias etc. These are the thugs who they vote for simply because they believe that they can actually do something for them when in power – as a sort of a payback for the votes they’ve given. Imran doesn’t get votes because his party doesnt have the clout/power/influence which the established parties do – and bear in mind, Nawaz was a Zia protege, so is ALtaf Hussain. There was never a mass movement behind these people – they were planted in power, and the masses only followed later. Imran Khan was offered such a deal by Musharraf, which he rightly or wrongly refused. And therein lies the problem with Pakistani voters, they rarely vote on merit but instead choose to back those who they believe exert clout to reward their votes with ‘favors’ for them or their community.