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Ladies and gentlemen, we have Sachaydino with us for the second episode of **Unplugged With Guppies. ****Sachaydino **is a senior member of GS and a regular in PA.
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Unplugged With Sachaydino
**1. What is your name?
**Sachaydino
**2. Where do you hail from and where do you reside? Do you have dual nationality?
**Karachi, now Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA. [dual nationality?] No.
3. What is your educational and professional background?
Bachelors of Engineering (NED Karachi), MBA (Dalhousie University Canada)
4. What is your political orientation?
Supporter of great leader ZAB and his social policies, Pakistan never ever had produced such personality who not only promised his agenda of social schemes but had guts to implement them..
5. Which political party do you support and why? Please explain the reasons in case if you do not support any party.
PPP being truly national party. This is the only party which is still trying its best to bring people from all provinces, cast, creed, religion, ethnic back ground etc, on one platform that is Pakistan.
**6. Have you ever read complete manifesto of your party? Does it matter to you at all?
**Yes. PPP had always been a party of common people. It has always worked for masses introduced schemes such as NDVP (during ZAB) times, Roti Kapra aor Makan (ZAB) and BB’s social welfare schemes etc. which never other party had done on national basis so far.
7. Do you believe that your party has a good team to run the country and tackle issues like governance, corruption, loadshedding, security?
Yes. PPP is party of masses, mostly represented by people which can be relied on. It has key loyal, most competent people who are the back bone of the party.
8. Has your party ever been in power in the Centre or in provinces? If yes, how did it perform?
As far I remember the party had government for three times in past, did not complete its tenure, taken over by dictators, due to which a number of programs started by the party were abandoned hence all efforts of them went down the gutter. This is the first time that the PPP government along with its allies is completing its due tenure. The performance is not up to the expectations of people but there are genuine reasons for the poor performance.
9. Are you satisfied with the policies of your party? Also, do you believe your party is heading in the right direction?
No. It is my personal opinion that party is somewhat changed its agenda of working for the masses, but then this is not pure PPP government it has allies and PPP had to sacrifice some of its performance to keep the alliance intact. However being out side of the country for a long period of time, people living in Pakistan are the best judges.
10. Are you satisfied with the role of your party in country’s political, socio-economic, defense and law & order fields, even if it has never been in power?
Same answer as above.
**11. In your opinion, what are the top-most plus and top-most minus points of your party?
**It is still a national party and working on social welfare schemes originated by ZAB, BB for the poor people of Pakistan. The negative image created by certain personalities in the current setup has to be addressed whether truth or a lie. Ignoring competent people and keeping them in back ground is the minus point of PPP.
**12. What do you think of presidential form of government?
**I have seen four presidential form of governments. During second president, Pakistan broke and in the third one Pakistan had become a jihadi state, still suffering from dark policies of third president. Yet the fourth president made this country as slave of Sam. I hate presidential form of government; it has always been a bad omen for Pakistan.
**13. Your take on judicial activitism?
**CJ is partial and only after the blood of PPP. I hate the way current CJ is working. In his 4 1/2 years of tenure he has not decided single case which pertains to non-PPP. All his efforts are wasted on following up PPP cases and nothing else.
14. Are you satisfied with the role of the Senate in the country?
Senate has to approve or disapprove the bills passed by NA after thorough discussions. I think they are doing their job.
**15. Are you okay with officially-approved electioneering budgets for provincial and national assemblies? (Rs5m for NA and Rs30m for PA)**
I don’t know. Perhaps current MNAs and MPAs will be able to give this answer.
**16. To govern a vast country of over 20 million population, the bigger the cabinet, the better?
**No. But again it depends upon situation whether it is one party government or an alliance. In alliances you have to satisfy the wishes of others too, you don’t have much choice.
17. Do you think that some key ministries should be managed only by technocrats, or it must be an elected representative of people to handle any department?
No. It should be managed by representatives of the areas whether technocrat or not, it does not matter. Being a technocrat is no guarantee that he or she will run the department efficiently.
18. Who is your favourite politician outside your favourite political party?
Maulana Fazl ur Rahman.
**19. Who is your favourite politician who appears in TV shows?
**Aitzaz Ahsan, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Raza Rabbani, Khurshid Shah, Zulfiqar Mirza, last but not the least Maulana Fazlur Rahaman.
**20. What is your favorite current affairs show (national or international)?
**I don’t have access to Pakistani channels, but I liked programs of Talat Hussain, watched in PA forum.
Thank you Sachaydino for your time 
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