Civil Dictatorship
By Muskan Hina • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look • (3,888 views) • 12 CommentsWhen Benazir Bhutto was alive, she made herself the life-time chairperson of her party. In her time, nobody dared to utter even a light squeal against her any decision or even a sneeze. She was the only decision maker in her party and her words were like the gospels. Her orders were the ultimate, and whatever she did had to be followed by the party leaders and members. Such was the attitude of that late lady. Am I wrong?
Nawaz Sharif is the chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), and if my memory serves me right, there never was a election within the party for the leadership of the PML-N, and just to shut the mouths of people like me, Nawaz Sharif holds a meeting of central executive committee of his party, every now and then to endorse himself the leader of the party. So be it, and who in his right mind could deviate from the endorsement of the CEC? Javed Hashmi sometimes meekly raises his voice against this, and see how he has become a pariah within the party.
Same is the case with other local and small time players. MQM cannot even think about changing Altaf Hussain, Jamat-e-Islami’s Shoora cannot think beyond Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Imran Khan doesn’t tolerate anyone else in his party except himself (he didn’t even tolerate his wife), Fazlur Rehman is a cartoon within himself who is here to stay, ANP revolves around the Bacha Khan family. Name it, and you would find a dictatorial approach in every party in the Pakistan, from tonga parties to the mainstream parties.
From this tyrannical approach within the parties, off shoots the dynastic politics. After the hanging of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir was the successor, and after her assassination her still very young son was the choice. But as he is still under-developed, so his papa is leading the party with his smiles. Will his papa would leave the throne for him when he grows up is another interesting prospects for the future.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has already put his brother Shahbaz Sharif as his proxy and their next generation is already weighing their wings to join the political fray. Son of Shahbaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz has become the member of national assembly and their other relatives are also in the national and provincial assemblies.
Same is the case with other political parties like ANP, PML-Q, JUI-F, etc etc.
How could possibly these parties and their leadership could put a blockade which will stop any general from staging a coup? It’s astonishing to see when these leaders talk about democracy and its also astounding to see when these politicos talk about fighting the dictatorship. First they have to fight themselves, if they want to fight the tyrants.
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June 22nd, 2008
Hina, dictatorship is bad in any form or cover and must be unacceptable. Having said that, would you be very offended ( many of your readers would) if I say that DICTATORSHIP is embedded in our psyche. Look around and observe (I am more than certain that You must have!) the way we conduct our private lives. We always ‘talk down’, we like to ‘tell’ everyone around us; Fathers to children; husbands to wives; anyone and everyone considers himself superior to his counterpart or companion. So much so we are not ‘allowed’ to even converse with our God; the mullah ‘tells’ that there ‘command’ and not advice or counselling. We must obey not because it is what is good and needs to be done for the sake of ‘goodness’ but because of a dictat. Am I too ill mannered. Forgive me.
By the way how are those little plants coming along?
Great evening.
June 22nd, 2008
Most Respected Mr. Aftab, thanks for the comment.
You have asked me “Am I too ill manered”?
I would say a strong ‘No’ to that.
In the same breath, I would hasten to request you one thing.
Please be generous and tone down a little. As I live on TPS, I am observing for some days that the discussion are getting very venomous, and I am ill at ease over that. I am not going to indulge in the debate that whether you start it or others start it. I am just requesting you to initiate a culture of tolerance at TPS. I have also requested admins of this site to ask all the commentors to do so.
I hope you would also help me in taking care of this tolerance plant. I am of the opinion that criticism is one thing and insulting and ridiculing others is quite other. What would that achieve? Only a deserted and useless place.
best regards
Muskan
P.S. I and my brother visited the plants, and most of them are thriving
June 22nd, 2008
Most Respected Mr. Aftab, thanks for the comment.
You have asked me “Am I too ill manered”?
I would say a strong ‘No’ to that.
In the same breath, I would hasten to request you one thing.
Please be generous and tone down a little. As I live on TPS, I am observing for some days that the discussion are getting very venomous, and I am ill at ease over that. I am not going to indulge in the debate that whether you start it or others start it. I am just requesting you to initiate a culture of tolerance at TPS. I have also requested admins of this site to ask all the commentors to do so.
I hope you would also help me in taking care of this tolerance plant. I am of the opinion that criticism is one thing and insulting and ridiculing others is quite other. What would that achieve? Only a deserted and useless place.
best regards
Muskan
P.S. I and my brother visited the plants, and most of them are thriving
June 22nd, 2008
Well Hina, you took away the words from my mouth I guess, most of them if not all. Look at us being a democratic nation, and we are told by out Law Minister and Interior Minister that salaries of the Deposed Judges have been released on order of Asif Ali Zardari, mind you not the PM but Mr. Zardari.
Ayaz Amir said in parliment that all the deadlocked issues can be solved if parliment sits in a closed door session with no recess till the decision is made. I guess he is right for we the people of this country elcted the MP’s to make the decisions not Zardari sb, who was thurst upon us by God know what sort of a will which was never handed over to the Lawyers even by Shaheed BB as is generally the case among these big wigs.
And Nawaz Sharif too. Maybe he is playing the politics of the public but that is only because their long time adversaries and short time pals PPP is in the power and we the public are deemed not to see them as tyrants, for now.
All said well and good about the political parties but I would beg to differ on the issue of Jamat-e-Islami. I myself believe it is time for the Jamat-e-Islami Shoora to vote Qazi Hussain Ahmad out of the office but well Jamaat has never been oner persons party. It never went along in family lineage of Maulana Modudi and it is the only party in which elections are held after I guess every two years with almost six or seven contenders. That is Qazi sb has never been elected unoppossed. Yet I guess it is time for him to go.
Regards.
June 22nd, 2008
Honest God. You said what I was seriously contemplating and struggling with myself to say. I do agree with you. It just so happens that I take it upon myself to payback in the same currency dealt here, even if initial target is someone else. You know the basic principle of rhetoric and public debate is to demolish the person debating and that takes care of his allegations; once you shake up the guy behind the argument the arguments are diminished themselves in the perception of the recepients.
However, let me see.
Respects.
P.s.: Glad to know the good news about the plants. By the way what kind are they and how long will take them to be a little indpendent.
One more thing, your this ‘tree’ project is great and I am very impressed and feel personally obliged. My respects and my most affectionate regards.
June 22nd, 2008
Dear Talha: Qazi Hussain is promoting his daughter in the ranks of the Jamat, and now she leads the women wing. Qazi has also propped many of his close aides in the Shoora, and the resistance to him is only cosmetics. He also controls the goons of Jamiat. He is virtually a life-time leader of Jamat. I agree that it’s time Jamat throws him out, if it wants to survive.
Sweet Aftab, I am so glad that you already were thinking on these lines. I am so glad that you also feel the way I (and I am sure thousands of other silent TPS readers) feel. InshAllah, together we would make this a grand grand place.
Tell you What. With the help of Ghazala of TPS, we have started this tree campaign in Islamabad and Lahore. Ghazala especially went to Lahore to plant 100 trees. She returned last week. In Islamabad, Ghazala and Amna planted around 200 weeks.
I want to boast that I financed all the plants, and Ghazala and Amna just planted them
They are sweet, you know.
Sameer Shahryar would plant 50 new plants in Abottabad next week.
Brig. Junaid has also promised to contribute.
Others are also welcome.
I have also requested TPS admins to create a special page, where we put our contributions. It won’t be for show off, but to encourage others.
best regards
June 22nd, 2008
Dear Talha: Qazi Hussain is promoting his daughter in the ranks of the Jamat, and now she leads the women wing. Qazi has also propped many of his close aides in the Shoora, and the resistance to him is only cosmetics. He also controls the goons of Jamiat. He is virtually a life-time leader of Jamat. I agree that it’s time Jamat throws him out, if it wants to survive.
Sweet Aftab, I am so glad that you already were thinking on these lines. I am so glad that you also feel the way I (and I am sure thousands of other silent TPS readers) feel. InshAllah, together we would make this a grand grand place.
Tell you What. With the help of Ghazala of TPS, we have started this tree campaign in Islamabad and Lahore. Ghazala especially went to Lahore to plant 100 trees. She returned last week. In Islamabad, Ghazala and Amna planted around 200 weeks.
I want to boast that I financed all the plants, and Ghazala and Amna just planted them
They are sweet, you know.
Sameer Shahryar would plant 50 new plants in Abottabad next week.
Brig. Junaid has also promised to contribute.
Others are also welcome.
I have also requested TPS admins to create a special page, where we put our contributions. It won’t be for show off, but to encourage others.
best regards
June 22nd, 2008
Talha, mostly you are right. Just two points, may be three!
- Maulna Maudoodi and his family lineage. True his family did not follow him in politics but people say that they did not follow any of his traditions or ways. As far as Maudoodi’s democaratic inclinations were concerned. See, there used to be a very close associate and ally of the Maulana and in his party’s higher archy almost at the top. His name was Kausar Niazi. He publically raised certain objections to the modus operandi of the party and its prevailing culture of the time (by the way his objections were valid and legitimate and should have been given democratic and ethical consideration and argumentations). You will be pleased to know. The ‘great’ leader ordered the objector to leave the party. Democratic? on the contrary!
- Ayaz Amir has been a source of inspiration and still I have not given up on him and waiting for his return to normalcy. He is on record categorizing in details the history of Nawaz Sharif’s failings, and short comings. He wrote a while back that in Ayaz’s honest judgement (and he is usually honest) Nawaz Sharif’ “attention span” is of a two years old (it could be of four, for it has been a while when I read) and you know what it says that this Sharif guy posses very low intelligence level (hardly his fault, this being a genetic deficiency). If this is so, then, how an honest and enlightend person like Ayaz Amir accept this Sharif as a leader? And twice!
The third point. Hmm. Lets leave it here.
June 22nd, 2008
Hina, great job. Blessings. I’ll come back to you on this (trees).
June 23rd, 2008
Aftab: Well I beg to differ on the role of Kausar Niazi being a close associate of Maulana, for Kusar Niazi was just a young emerging enthusiastic leader in the cadres of Jamaat but no where did he reflect the ideology or the formational basis of Jamaat and that is probably the reason that he went ahead and became the Religious Affairs minister in Bhutto govt in 70’s and not only that but openly defended Bhutto’s extra-martial affairs ( for reference please see to Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan by Stanley Wolpert).
As far as Maulana’s family is concerned yeah I agree they strayed away from his path quite early keeping in view his sons remakrs about his father. And well politics apart your comments abt Maulana being “Great leader” seem quite satirical and just so as to put forward my point of view He was a great religious scholar and probably one of the few ones of Modern time who eased into the boundaries of all fiqh’s and became known as “the sectless”.
Hina: Quite agreed upon that Qazi has tried to make it more like a family robust party for instance just to add to your knowledge that when in previous elections he won two seats including Nowshear he intended to vacate the Nowsheras seat so that his son could contest but the Shoora of Jammat Islami openly oppossed the idea even issuing a press release making Qazi sb to die out in his wishes.
But the fact of the matter is that despite all the reservations over the actions and reactions of Jamaat’s policies lately and their hooliganist attitude exponentially on rise ( by Shabaab Milli And IJT) still I guess it is the only party with worthwhile support in the masses that has not been running along in one particular lineage since its inception back in 1946.Rather what I may term as a baeauty of Jamaat despite being not such a fan of the party itself is, its voting out Maulana in his life time for he was too old and fragile to run the party, which I guess was true to some extenet but he was still apt of making decisions.
P.S. I still agree with what you described as the Concept of Civil Dictatorship
June 23rd, 2008
Hi Hina,
We in the subcontinent have to live with this feudalism. In India we have the Nehru dynasty which got changed to Gandhi dynasty when Indira married a parsi who due to some quirk of fate had surname Gandhi!!!. We have regional chieftains in India like karunanidhi,Deve Gowda,Chauthala,Mulayam singh yadav etc i cannot name all of them. ditto in bangladesh with Sheikh hasina and Madame Zia and her sons.Even military dictatorship is unable to remove their power!!!!!. bandranaikes of ceylon are known. When women and ofcourse Men of subcontinent MARRY the person they love, may be this feudalism will end in may be another 100 years.But then in India all our business leaders have 2nd 3rd generation pursuing the same profession as also our bureacrats, army families etc etc. Even in sports we had this with Amirtharaj ,Krishnan family in tennis, Gwaskar family in cricket, mankad family etc.
ONE THING , YOU WILL FIND COMMON. ALL ARE MAMMA’S BOYS!!!!!!
June 24th, 2008
Talha, the Islami Qazi who likes us to believe and accept their setp as champions of democracy are the same group that welcomed and cooperated with that chief “munafiq” by the name of Zia the “dictator-e-momin”. Earlier just after independence in 1948 the “great aalim” Abul Ala Maududi disqualified the Kashmir campaign as non jihaad, and in 1999 the amir sahaab-e- Qazi claimed that it’s was “jihad fi sabi-lillah” - I notice a terrible credibility problem here. They change their colour as and when it suits them. Now, democratic, now pro dictator, now a jihadist, now anti jihadist - pretty erratic and unstable people these mullahjees.