Zulfiqar Mirza group wins all 14 wards in Badin

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Re: Zulfiqar Mirza group wins all 14 wards in Badin

@Jolie

I wouldn’t call Zulfiqar Mirza an “alternative”. He’s a powerful local don with an armed militia of his own and band of loyal supporters, and the whole basis of his campaign was that “I’m very much still a PPP Jiayla, I just don’t like Asif Ali Zardari, but Jiye Bhutto nontheless”. So nothing different. PPP simply couldn’t be bothered to challenge him otherwise if a weak and non armed candidate was standing - PPP would have thrashed him and killed his voters by unleashing Sindh police and local goons, or asking their loyal to screw the administrative process.

PTI stands absolutely no chance winning a single seat in Sindh even in next 40 years, but if they want to “form a meaningful ground level” in Sindh, then they will unfortunately have to make alliances with likes of Mirza and Mumtaz Bhutto and that means facing a huge public backlash, and I don’t think it’s worth it. In fact, other than Punjab, they now need to start playing close attention to the events in FATA, and become a meaningful political voice there.

Call him an alternate goon, but Zulfikar Mirza is an alternate nonetheless. He has decided to form another party. We all know of his motives, but point is, he was able to use influence (positive or negative) to sway people away from PPP.

I dont think making inroads into Sindh is out of the question for PTI. The only thing PTI misjudged was the time it would take to make a difference. Otherwise, I dont think its a tall order by any means. People are fed up. But noone has the courage to act independently, because of the fear factor. Its just a matter of uniting those people under a banner. PTI has the means, and the personality to go with it.