so what we should do now??
Land Reform - from Manshoor of the United Patriots.
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[TD]In over six decades of history of Pakistan, Pakistanis have inherited Landlords, Nawabs, Jagirdaars, or
waderas from the British raj, defined as landowner(s) who own vast acres of land and farmers farm
the land for them. For the purpose of this document we shall lump, Landlords, Nawabs, Jagirdaars,
and Waderas, into one category called Boss and their farmers will be called Subject, for the purpose
of this document only.
Bosses have been enjoying the benefit of being the owners off the Subjects, targeting them with
atrocities, pay them in coins for their hard work of all day, worst of all, suppressing the Subjects of
their basic human rights. The Subjects are so confined to their Boss that they do not even know what
exists outside of their thatched homes. The Bosses run the community, administer the justice,
without any proper knowledge of the Pakistani Laws. Whether the Subjects are satisfied with the
judgment or not, they must be content with it because they have no rights or venues to file an
appeal.
Patriots believe that this practice is against the very basic Islamic principle of human rights.
We believe this practice and Boss-Subject relationship must be dissolved and the farmers (Subjects)
must be given piece of the land they farm on to the farmers to sow, grow, and sell creating a tax
base for the Bait-ul-Maal.
We propose that we pass a law allowing us to expropriate the lands from the Bosses in exchange for
a fair and a reasonable price. The fair price will be determined by the appraisers of the lands.
The committee would request the Bait-ul-Maal to appropriate funds on an interest-free loan basis
which will be paid back to the lender as we collect the principle and tax payments from the farmers.
If the buy-out option does not go well the Bosses then legislate to expropriate the lands and relocate
the Bosses into some other cities or town and pay them a reasonable money to live on.
We believe this is not going to be an easy task due to insurmountable pressure from the affected
Bosses, media, and the opposition parties. But we have the will, the desire, and support of the masses.
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