Some sixty years ago, after much struggle and sacrifices, a new country had been carved on the world map. That country, named Pakistan, was solely created on the basis that Muslims of the subcontinent constituted a nation of their own and would be better off having their own homeland. So that they could live their lives according to the teachings of islam.
But what does really disturb me is the fact that although prescribing to the foundational norms of this country, we are at a crossroad where everybody is looking for answers that we all know already. Since the creation of Pakistan, there hasn't been one government that delivered. It was either corrupt or taken over by military regime. What happend? Why couldn't they deliver? Government means politics, politics means strategy and critic. Is it that simple?
Of course not, a lot of other factors are involved in it but one factor that is overlooked all the time is the person self. When a normal citizen does something opposing to the religion or the cultural norms, he is certainly made to feel the consequences. But when a pilitician does so, it gets pushed under the carpet without a mention. Why is that so? The plight of our Politics was and is that a vast majority of politicians are either mighty feudals or big industrialists who employ citizens of this country in vast numbers. Even if these citizens would want to vote for somebody else, they wouldn't dare. What is left, is that the normal citizen whatever aspiration he might have is left to the mercy of the one mighty person. Left to the conscience of the few.
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