Democracy: Memogate termed a conspiracy

The memogate issue is a conspiracy orchestrated by the establishment against democratic institutions to cover up the failures of military establishment in the recent past, said a statement issued by the Awami Party Pakistan (APP) on Sunday. The establishment is being helped by inept and corrupt politicians in creating the present political upheaval and the present rulers have pushed Pakistan to a brink of disaster, creating acute shortage of electricity and gas and rendering millions of people unemployed, said the statement. The Pakistani establishment has conspired against the people on several occasions by imposing martial laws and removing democratically elected governments. Now the oligarchy is bent upon removing the duly elected government, unconstitutionally, and with the tacit support of judiciary on the pretext of an “anonymous memo” The party is of the opinion that the rule of elites needs to be replaced by the rule of people to thwart such conspiracies.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd,  2012.