Adil Najam
Not unexpectedly, the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz Group has decided to quit from all cabinet positions in the coalition government it had so recently formed with Asif Zardari’s PPP.
According to The News:
Following the failure of London talks on the reinstatement of judges; Pakistan Muslim League (PML)-N has decided to resign from federal cabinet in central executive committee meeting underway here. Earlier, federal ministers reached to attend the meeting without official car and other privileges. The meeting has discussed that coalition with Peoples Party was made for the restoration of deposed judges but Peoples Party has failed to fulfill its commitment therefore PML-N has decided to quit the coalition.
The report here says that they have “quit the coalition” but other rumblings suggest that they have only left the cabinet and will continue to work with the PPP on the ouster of Gen. Musharraf. That, however, remains to be seen.
Our ongoing Poll on this subject (now closed) had suggested that most people did NOT believe that the coalition woud fall just yet over the judges issue. But at least for now the news is that it has.
However, this being Pakistan everything will be spun every which way and by the time the dust settles - if it ever settles - things will nearly certainly look very different from what they do now.
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legaleagle, You and your president should go and hide under a rock.
This “president” for the sole purpose of staying in his boots is singlehandedly responsible for the murder of hundreds of people. He has made a mockery of the document, called the “Constitution of Pakistan”. If you call that politics of power, then be it. This power politics will come to an end one day, and he will have no place to hide in Pakistan, not even the Army house.
@Ikhtilat mein mukhloot hojataiy hein leaderan,
phir kisi aur khilwat mein, chali jati hay awaam
Apass ka muamelah ho, ya alag, khulay hay dukkan,
Milay ga kia ? is awaam ko uski qismet ka maqqam
Rafay Kashmiri
” wo chal diay jo ham ko tassali diay beghair ” (Noor Jehan)
Ye Kinarah chala, keh nau chali
Kehiay kia baat dehaan mein aa’i
( Yaas Yagana Chinghezi)
Doosti mein teri darpardah hamaray dushman,
Isqadar apnay, para’aiy hien keh ji jaanta hay
Mirza Dagh Dehlivi
The quiting of PML(N) from the federal cabinet was very much on the cards right from the inception of the government as there were strong signals from PPP cadres that NOV 2 judiciary will not be restored in the style MIAN SAHIB , most of the legal feternity,and civil society wanted it to be restored and it is really a great tragedy for whole the nation but the worst aspect of whole the exercise is that PPP is now being marshelled by those people who are not in a position of contesting and winning any seat from any constituency in any sort of general election e.g REHMAN MALIK , HUSSEIN HAQQANI , FAROOQ NAIK ,BABUR AWAN and doubts are created in the mind of Mr ZARDARI that people of PAKISTAN voted PPP in power not because of judiciary but for ROTI KAPRA AUR MAKAN by these aides which is in total negation of ground reality . In the absence of independent , bold and trustworty judiciary there will be an increase in the disparity among the masses of society, disparity in the term of distribution of wealth , resources and oppurtunities. Influential and affluent class is always at the receiving end in such cases where as middle and lower class suffer a lot due to lack of transparency which leads to frustration , agony and protest
This was pretty much eminent that the collation will not survive as it all was based on restoration of judiciary. The judiciary cannot be restored, as to me (with due respect, I do not want to offend anyone!!) as deep inside PPP mind, the question is that if they will restore the judiciary then all the decisions made by the present judiciary will be void?
So as per that the NRO will be non-existent and hence I believe this will be a matter of concerns AAZ.
Meanwhile my heart comes out when on one hand we hear the news residing overseas, that life in Pakistan has become too tough and hard for the middle class people and on the other hand people like AAZ come to UK and stay at Dorchester Hotel (Oliver Messel Suite, which costs £ 3,125 per night). What a waste of money and resources.
My question to everyone is how on earth we can be sure that the people who have been labelled as 10% can be sincere and honest to the community.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Where are we going ….?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, The FATHER OF NATION, in his 11 August 1947 Speech to the Constituent Assembly made it adequately clear that it would be a comprehensive and pluralistic democracy promising equal rights for all citizens regardless of religion, caste or creed, Pakistan was born as democratic state. In fact it has been failure of Pakistan socio-political system ,where in, Pakistani people are left at distant from the corridor of power so that the ruling elite, can do what they wanted to do in favors of their interest, leaving the Pakistani people at the mercy of circumstances. As this policy is denial of right of Pakistani people to rule their country according to their aspiration and desire to build this country, which can provide equal opportunity to all without any discrimination for the establishment of welfare society the dream never, come true till today.
Because of corrupt politician of Pakistan the army was tempted again and again to place for one after another military rule. It would be wrong to blame Pakistan army wholly for having usurped power for more than half of its life. It was in fact feudal corrupt politician that facilitated first martial law in Pakistan.
There can be no denying that Chief of CIA and his brother John Foster Dulles who was then Secretary of State who played key role in bringing Pakistan under martial law the feudal politician were responsible for the army rule. As unfolding the situation that brought Pakistan under martial law. Altaf Gauhar, biographer of Ayub Khan writes, Americans convinced their friend Iskander Mirza to handover power to Ayub Khan on 7 October 1958. Had there been shrewd political leadership in Pakistan in 1958, perhaps democracy would have taken firm roots in our country. Again, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto shown eagerness and patience during 7 March 1977 elections not to speak of Pakistan coming under martial law, perhaps, would have been alive and ruling at present. He would have most likely won a majority, even if not two thirds of majority. Apparently it was again weak handling of the post-Kargil war situation by political leadership that catapulted General Musharraf to power.
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However, it is not for the first time that people of Pakistan have spoken in favors of democracy, but whenever they got a break, they manifested their faith in democracy, so they did it on 18 February 2008, but did it work, no, therefore in order to get rid of socio-economic grievances we need to change the system at large. We did not have any outcome during change of faces since last 60 years. Is this not enough for a nation or do we need more humiliation or loss to the nation before we learn the lesson ?
The Political leadership in Pakistan needs to understand that it was people’s anger against the establishment that went into the ballot-boxes, and not one but all the political parties that have benefited from the popular rise, be obliged it to the voting public to work in combination, because no single party is in a position to go it alone. It seems that the wisdom from past mistakes has distilled upon Pakistan leadership and there is all likelihood of emergence of a national consensus for running of the country.
It will be difficult to expect any thing positive at this stage because, return of political leadership of PPP and PML(N) to Pakistan was subject to condition, political coalition cannot take creative action or dare to change policy of the national interest till general Musharaf is as president, current government need to take patriotic political decision in the interest of Pakistan without fear of American anger or their commitment and support during mediation process with USA.
Presidents and Prime Minister have come and gone in the past but it did not make a difference, regarding President Musharaf role about Country , there can be no two opinions as to whose, approach was proper or in the interest of people of Pakistan. No political party that was in the election arena raised a finger against the centralized power in the hands of one person or few of them Nobody talk about to empower the Pakistani at grass route level, why? Because they to, want to grab, total power in their own hand so how politician differ from musharaf mean all eggs are one and the same in the basket.
We have already lost the major part of Pakistan in 1971 simply to save the centralized sole power in the hands of ruling elite to exploit this country by the ruling leaders they let the country break in part then allowing the masses to rule this country democratically. In the present circumstances we are again dragging our sovereignty at stack for the external interest in the name of national interest, instead of our interest i.e. the interest of Pakistani people at large.
That mean only the society base on tolerance, equality and justice can be the real guarantee for the prosperous and strong Pakistan there for your intent is invited to the crucial movement which could be the point of distraction or disaster.
The only way -out of these crucial circumstances is to empower the common Pakistani at grass route level i.e. the change of system. This change is inevitable for the prosperous Pakistan .As a citizen of this country I have try to provide an alternate socio-political system to empower the masses at grass route level for rapid industrial and agriculture development with transparency and accountability in the system. Along with basic guarantees for the creation of welfare state, where in public representative and institution shall be answerable and accountable to the masses. I alone cannot make the change but together we can turn the table, and make the dream come true.
See…www.idp.org.pk
Ilyas khan Baloch
Organizer, Islamic Democratic Party
@ I propose that Pir Minister should make retreat
to Gilan as he is of no use, only good for Madame Tosaud
next to Elton John. What a waste, PPP made fool of awaam.
@ Some comments are misleading us,
“Judge’s priority is changed now perhaps, people have other
preferrences perhaps they think more for atta, daal etc ”
that is why judges are not going to be …….. you know ?
well………, you see, awaam is so naive…… every thing has
its time !!!! “nla, bla, bla,bla, and bla
PPP was a lier, is a thug, cheater and once againn made
AWAAM completely fool, thank you Awaam, I wish I could
slap you to wake you up.
Now Zardari is giving his own interpretation of Misaaq. Damn fools !why don’t you follow Fazlu, more clever than you “donkites”.
Our Politicians are duffers par excellence !!
I am so disgusted and revolted by the breaking up of
this historical ” Coalition “.
This is alright.
It’s great that a political party in Pakistan took a stand and went out of the government. The reinstatement of judges might not be the first priority of the government. It is not unusual. It is okay to pursue one’s own agenda honestly.
Afterall, people of pakistan showed clearly that they wanted to take things in their hands. If people do not move behind the lawyers or behind PML-N, it would mean that perhaps they themselves have other priorities and judges reinstatement issue does not touche them so much.
The democracy has to be practised.