The track record of our rulers shows that the country is run without a proper merit-based system.
KARACHI: December 27, 2012, marked the fifth death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto. The ruling party was quick to cash in on this occasion by launching Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari as the new face of the PPP for the next elections.
Though this government has almost completed its tenure of five years, it has failed to catch the culprits behind Benazir’s assassination. At Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Bilalwal, rather than questioning his father, posed this question to the judiciary, asking the chief justice to explain why he has not punished the culprits behind the heinous act. The Pakistani nation, especially the youth, want to ask Bilawal the steps his father has taken to punish Benazir’s killers while he is the president of Pakistan.
The installation of Bilawal as a new political leader in this prince-like manner shows the absence of democracy in the Pakistani political system. Bilawal has not entered politics as a political worker but as a nominated leader. It is very surprising that the PPP claims to be a democratic party, yet its members have proved to be believers in monarchy.
The track record of our rulers shows that the country is run without a proper merit-based system that recognises and appreciates the talents of the deserving. Our rulers’ children spend their lives in luxury in foreign countries. How can we allow such people to rule us as this is against the ideals of democracy?
Bismah Mirza
Published in The Express Tribune, January 6th, 2013.
