PTI chief has in general shown a lack of understanding of politics and international relations.
SAUDI ARABIA: After closely watching the ongoing circus in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, for the past ten days, any neutral person may conclude two things without much pondering or hesitation — that there is general disillusionment among the masses about the prevailing state of affairs which has divided the nation between rulers and ruled. They think that the rhetoric of democracy is a trap to deny any change in the system.
In democracy, only the peoples’ representatives in parliament can make changes but as they come from the ruling class — landlords, industrialists, business tycoons, religious and tribal leaders, they can’t go against their own class. In short, it’s a classic catch-22 case and presently there is no way to get out of it. This ruling class in the garb of political and religious parties is hell bent on maintaining its grip on the common people. As for the PTI chief, he has used foul and street language, issued open threats to anyone opposing him, incited people to engage in civil disobedience, asked overseas Pakistanis to stop sending home remittances, and has in general shown a lack of understanding of politics and international relations.
His own party has been ruling Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for the past 14 months but have the lives of its residents improved in any significant way with better governance, law and order and so on?
Masood Khan
Jubail
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2014.
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