Re: Unplugged With Guppies — kakaballi
Unfortunately, political parties in Pakistan do not represent any particular civic ideas, stances on issues of national importance, stated policies on social and economic issues etc. Republicans and Democrats in US, for example, have stated policies and ideas on all those and actually act on those ideas when in government and people who think those are closer to their own ideals, align themselves with one of those parties.
PPP for example has a different set of ideas for people living in rural Sindh, Karachi, urban Punjab, rural Punjab, Baluchistan and KP and all those are not consistent with each other. I don’t think a person enticed by liberal leftist ideas of PPP in Karachi would approve of vadaira shahi in rural Sindh for example.
It is difficult to find a mainstream political party that represents someone’s political thought (unless one is a blind follower of peer sab, shah sahib, sectarian party or vadairo saeen or khan sahib, etc). We, unfortunately, have to contend with choosing the ‘least evil’ and that is a subjective call that is also time variant. Some people would prefer even military over all these parties and we cannot really blame them. I think it is encouraging that some people are unsure of which party to choose since this indicates that they at least think about it!