PPP and Zardari are here to Stay
By Umer Toor • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics • 3 CommentsThey are as usual making deadlines and forecasting about the last-whistle times for the departure of the President Asif Ali Zardari. The story which everyone out of the power and popularity wants to tell is that the Pakistan People Party is disheartened and disintegrating fast and would soon be nobody.
Those predictions and false hopes were made when they hung the founder of this greatest parties of all times Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. They talked about the westernized Benazir Bhutto and they talked about the weaknesses of a female leader of any political party. They then smeared her with the corruption blames and tried to subjugate her by making allegations over her gifted husband, who is our president now.
Its nothing new for the PPP. President Zardari knows, and understand that and that is why he is calm and cool and he knows that nobdoy would dare to touch him because the people are with him.
I know who he is. Because he’s me. Zardari is the cherished legacy of martyrs of this country and he is here to stay because we the people of Pakistan are with him.
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The Pakistani nation is tired of moving from crisis to crisis. Crises of all hues and nature from energy, wheat, sugar, water, and security crises to judicial and political crises — form the routine diet of the hapless people of Pakistan. Unfortunately, we are now in the thick of another one. A purely technical matter has been turned into a political issue. The balm of reconciliation extended to the nation by the two major political parties and archrivals of the past, seemed to be evaporating fast as Nawaz Sharif shed his mild-mannered posture toward the president and painted him in the darkest of hues. The country stands divided so deeply for the first time after the civilian government assumed office. It does not augur well for democracy and the country. The attitudes on display have the tendency to promote opposition for the sake of opposition, which marred politics during the 1990s and finally paved the way for the military to intervene in the guise of a saviour. We need no saviours except those that have been elected by the people of Pakistan. We cannot afford a derailing of the system. Our security and economic condition does not allow another traumatic round of mid-term elections. Catering for petty political interests will not serve the purpose of democracy, which is threatened more by these kinds of dissension in society than by any one person or his notification, which is the subject of equally convincing opposing interpretations, depending on which side you are on. It is for the government and the judiciary to work out an amicable solution to the problem, which is not as big or intractable as the Kashmir issue economy issue and other challenges
Well said Fatima! I have nothing to add.
The Pakistani nation is tired of moving from crisis to crisis. Crises of all hues and nature from energy, wheat, sugar, water, and security crises to judicial and political crises — form the routine diet of the hapless people of Pakistan. Unfortunately, we are now in the thick of another one. A purely technical matter has been turned into a political issue. The balm of reconciliation extended to the nation by the two major political parties and archrivals of the past, seemed to be evaporating fast as Nawaz Sharif shed his mild-mannered posture toward the president and painted him in the darkest of hues. The country stands divided so deeply for the first time after the civilian government assumed office. It does not augur well for democracy and the country. The attitudes on display have the tendency to promote opposition for the sake of opposition, which marred politics during the 1990s and finally paved the way for the military to intervene in the guise of a saviour. We need no saviours except those that have been elected by the people of Pakistan. We cannot afford a derailing of the system. Our security and economic condition does not allow another traumatic round of mid-term elections. Catering for petty political interests will not serve the purpose of democracy, which is threatened more by these kinds of dissension in society than by any one person or his notification, which is the subject of equally convincing opposing interpretations, depending on which side you are on. It is for the government and the judiciary to work out an amicable solution to the problem, which is not as big or intractable as the Kashmir issue economy issue and other challenges.