In today’s urban Pakistan, those teenagers who are fanatically making resolutions to vote for the PTI were only little kids when the PML(N) for the first time assumed power back in 1997 and when Musharraf installed a coup against a democratically elected government in 1999. Unfortunately, they do not know much as to what services Nawaz Sharif has rendered for the country.
There is no doubt in the fact that our youth is more vibrant, talented and optimistic than their predecessors used to be. Unfortunately, we live in a world where emotionality takes over rationality when it comes to deciding the fate of a nation. Whereas talent, vibrancy and optimism may lead to a blind alley, the youth must give a serious thought to their decision related to electing some party to rule. In other words, they must choose a leader they can trust and who can deliver.
They must keep in mind as to which party did deliver and which party did not; who’s been defaulter, corrupt, tyrannical, dictatorial and who hasn’t been; who did pass the test of making Pakistan a better democracy and who did not. They must keep in mind that whenever a military coup takes place, it becomes the junta’s prime concern to denounce and defame the politicians so that the coup operators may chisel a rationale of their illegitimate action; so that they may prove that they were right, clean, rather angels and the ‘thrown-outs’ were dirty and demons.
One of the PTI’s main leaders, Shahid Qazi, resigned from the party alleging that the party wasn’t holding elections within it, and was toeing the line of the military establishment.
The youth must keep a sensitive eye on the gravity of the circumstances if the pro-establishment forces are ‘somehow’ elected. The old game will be played again. Once again, the politicians will be thrown out after sometime. They will be discredited, and some ‘clean’ hands will hold the reigns thereafter.
The PML(N) has passed the public’s trust and has emerged as a true representative of the people condemning the role of secret channels in policy making of the country. The PML(N) should publicise this role on the social media too.
It is a catastrophic negligence of the party that the workers haven’t done well on the social media wherein PML(N)’s wondrous works could have been highlighted for an effective feedback, ie, winning votes. Imran is suspected to be a pro-establishment force whereas Nawaz Sharif has become the symbol of resistance against the forces responsible for derailing the democratic process.
AHMAD HAMMAD
Lahore
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