Dear friends
Assalam o alaikum..peace to all
I write today with an utter urge to express my thoughts
which I have never felt before. As I do this I realize what a blessing this is
for people like me who want to bring about a change and, random find a way to
pitch in.
I would like to analyze a few political aspects of the long
march that shook the whole country. I analyse it not as a journalist, a
politician or an oppressed civilian in a literal way. I am a house wife
bringing up kids in a very comfortable home environment.We don’t have major
issues like absence of gas or water or electricity and thus I confess…I am a
part of the elite . I do not need to be a part of the change that this country
needs but that I want to. I have a strive and a passion to side with the
oppressed. A motto that I shouldn’t wait
for some one else to change this country but that ,”I” need to be the change.
I am a bystander of
what happened in Islamabad only via television. I will not say that I am not
biased because my emotions take the better of me. I cry when I see the
oppressed being heard, out of joy. So my passion grips me and leaves no room
for impartiality. Furthermore, I believe that no human can ever be truly
impartial…he may pretend to, but he isn’t.
(One thing I kept in mind while writing this was that people
say that Dr Tahir ul Qadri wants to get into power..)
So here goes. As things move forward I hear people and the
media say millions of things and then my mind wants to talk back with some
replies.I am trying to evaluate the people in power who play with us as a
nation and see if we really lost much or otherwise.
Firstly, the reason Dr Tahir was unable to gain trust by
those who didn’t trust him was because he sounded too good to be true. So
people automatically resorted to “fear the unknown” phenomenon…with out feeling
pushed to do some googling etc. So is it better to leave the country in the
hands of a guy who wants autonomous powers, alters and amends constitution,
election procedures…to ensure he gets re-elected, or some one who apparently strictly does every thing with in the limits of law and enlivens the nation.
Secondly, what is better, Zardai and his likes(if there is
any) who uses money and guns to buy peoples' support or , Dr Tahir who gained support by winning peoples hearts.
Is it better to let Zardari campaign out of government's
funds or have Dr Tahir Campaign with unknown, non Pakistani funds.
Is it better to have a convict, with major corruption cases
currently open, sit as a prime minister/president Or a man who is being investigated vigorously in an utter frustration for any crime what so ever.And nothing has been found against him as yet..
Is it better to have a guy who has unimaginable amounts of
dough in Switzerland and other secret bank accounts all over the world or a
person who has a Canadian nationality and no record of theft from govt of
Pakistan so far.
Not giving up Canadian nationality also entails that Dr Qadri cannot enter the Pakistani politics officially. So why are we thinking he
wants to be the next prime minister…I mean those are things we can think of when
the time comes…
Is it better to be scared of a president who can sabotage
our finances and kidnap our men women and children at the drop of a hat or, a lawyer turned
cleric who wears a funny hat(which I don't think is funny at all ...its just
something new).
Is it better to stay with politicians who have fake degrees ( sometimes of grade 8 level education even leave apart Bachelors) or the suspicious man who looks brave, talks peoples
heart and has a Phd.
Is it better to have politicians who cant talk or read in
English or the guy who fluently switches between English and urdu…(be honest to yourself...we do
understand the value of English)
Is it better to stick with a government that takes money
from Taliban and gives them the permission to enjoy a blood bath in our cities
or someone who openly condemns it and had left the country on these grounds.
Is it better to have five more years of well known torture
and agony at the hands of a 10% man or take a chance with some one who wants to
strictly scrutinize and flush out the political system.
Is it better to sit at home and whine about no electricity,
gas or water which would gain us nothing or go out and try our luck, sit with
no water, electricity or gas on the road and try and change something.
Is it really bearable to see those same thugs come back and
forth and rob our country and make us look like really really big fools when
they come and do it again and then they
come and do it yet another time and then have no shame to stand for
elections yet another time…imagine repeating myself in writing makes us feel
stupid and these guys rule our country and we still let them do it. WE LET THEM
DO IT
So even if we fear the unknown isn’t it time we at least see
a different face……(we surely deserve that.)
And last but not the least is it better to have
governments who play with peoples lives Or, a supposedly con man who plays with
peoples hearts and feelings…and promises and proves to have done no loss what so ever in the most trying
of conditions.
DID WE REALLY LOSE ANY THING?
Let me know what you think..this or that or …..what?
--*At least there is hope ...that's the difference between yesterday and today !!!*--
p.s please overlook my grammar and punctuation mistakes this was written in a real rush while baby sitting two kids :)
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