Amidst Democracy

Saulat Mirza's confessional statement has buzzed the Pakistani media and nowadays every other talk show is discussing about the allegations of  a convicted person. Interviewing the wife of Saulat mirza the assasin, live on this issue and calling the son of the slain MD KESC live from NY are the hot cakes in market. The anchor asks question about involvement of MQM in target killings to boost the rating of the talk show. However the real question, that who is the actual force ceasing the execution of Saulat mirza time and again ? Who is responsible of taking a video recorder inside a death cell to record the confessional statement hours before he was supposed to be executed? The silence of media on this issue tells the sanity and objectivity of media.


The enigma of Pakistani politics is always a fuzzy subject and while it is understood that most of the media personalities are on the pay roll of WAQAR, the question is who is stopping who to accomplish different tasks ? Like for instance, consider the resignation drama, officially played between PTI and PMLN. Like what force on earth halted the speaker NA to accept the resignations of the rouge PTI ? Who approached him to accept the resignation of Javed Hashmi after he busted the conspiracy balloon of long march? How sanity prevailed after the Mummy retruns to the NA ? Talking about politics when PMLN failed to elevate Hasil Buzinjo as a strong candidate for the seat of chairman senate, then came the principle of democracy " He who has the majority should be given a fair chance". And hence, Raza rabbani nomination was supported and was widely hailed on social media as a step forward for democracy.

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Lets try to relate the above two issues. The issue of saluat mirza and the cowardish attitude of speaker NA on the issues of resignation are two current prime examples of how they think about us. The media and the politicians are successful in making people fool, time and again by overdosing them about the non issues. Instead of grilling government about how a confessional statement was recorded inside a deeathcell hours before an assasin's execution, every other day they are fanning dust in the wind by calling the son of slain MD KESC and the wife of the assassin. The politicians on the other side are deceiving people in the name of democracy. I mean in which democracy people have no right to elect a new representative after he/she resigns ? What justification PMLN has for over 20 constituencies who had no representation for the past 7 months ? Is it like PMLN was not confidant about winning those seats or it was a planned mukmuka between PTI and PMLN. Speaker NA Sardar Ayyaz Sadiq's duty was to protect the parliament in which he failed. The legal cases filled on Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri are seen no where in the legal system so that they can be prosecuted for the grieve act of attack on parliament. Speaker NA was bound to act according to the rules of business that states that even if some member has not rendered his resignation, if he/she is absent from the proceedings of the NA for a specific time, speaker NA should process to vacate that seat. The seat of speaker NA is a neutral seat and if someone is obeying party policy while occupying this seat, he deserves to take all the credit of wrongdoings and alas the BAKRI speaker failed in protecting parliament and ensuring the representation of over 20 constituencies of Pakistan. Contrary to this the SHERDIL president of PMLN acted on the issue of Wajih uz Zaman (MPA KPK) and aptly thrown him out of the PA of KPK.

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