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Pakistan At Critical Political
Juncture
PPP
leaders, whosoever they are and wherever they come from, have
adopted a defiant posture vis-à-vis state institutions like
Supreme Court and the armed forces. So far, they defied Supreme
Court and kept military leadership on their side, now they are
defying both the Supreme Court and the military leadership at
the same time.
Like
adopting a negative stance on many other issues the PPP
government has again chosen to adopt a negative stance against
these two state institutions. It’s not ironic that PPP
government is defying these two powerful state institutions. The
irony in this whole situation is the PPP government’s dismal
record on performance, conduct and skillfulness in governance.
Had these PPP leaders performed par excellence on various
governance challenges, the people may have happily ignored this
defiance. Some segments of society may have even supported them
in defiance against the military leadership. Now, not only the
people do not approve of PPP leaders' defiance they abhor their
conduct. In this case, the people of Pakistan like the
Zardari clique asses get kicked for showing utter
incompetence in running the government, highly corrupt practices
and on the top the defiance against the Supreme Court as well as
the military leadership.
Did
Zardari clique intentionally brought Pakistan to this juncture
or it happened simply due to their incompetence and lack of
political acumen in running the state affairs? We believe it is
a little bit of the both. On one hand they did not have the
competence to deal with very complex issues and on the other
they lacked political acumen to steer the country towards safer
shores. The things became more complicated with Zardari cliques’
life style. Of course, Zardari had many financial enterprises
before he walked in the office of the President but many others
with him were simply vagabonds. For the example, the Prime
Minister Gilani did not have resources to pay for his children’s
school fees but now his wife spends hundreds of thousands of
pounds in London’s shopping malls. There are many other examples
of many other members of Zardari clique, but let us focus on the
issue of PPP government’s defiant posture vis-à-vis Supreme
Court and the military leadership.
Supreme
Court and the military leadership has shown much more maturity
vis-à-vis PPP’s leadership. The honorable judges of the Supreme
Court could take drastic steps at many occasions, but they very
wisely showed restrained. Similarly, they military leadership
walked on the tight rope and continued supporting PPP government
regardless of their constant political stumbles.
Now with
mounting pressure from all sides, the PPP leaders are adopting a
very dangerous stance. They are weakening the state and the
state institutions through incompetent governance and through
defiant posture against the Supreme Court and the military
leadership. Instead, they have many wiser options. They can
either extend unconditional cooperation to Supreme Court and
honorably implement its verdicts or go for early elections.
Early
elections are the best option for everyone including PPP, SC,
military leadership and for the country. The announcement of
early elections will immediately change the political dynamics
in the country. All forces will focus on next elections instead
of dealing with PPP problems.
However,
looking at the current posture of PPP leaders it doesn’t look
likely they will voluntarily go for fresh mandate. Most probably
they will maintain their present suicidal posture and try to
make more mess in the country before they are ousted from
offices either forcibly or through elections.
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