Advantages for family based political parties in Pakistan are more than the disadvantages .
A ground fact of federation of Pakistan is that Punjab has to play a crucial part to hold the federation together .
Now that is a delicate job, it is quite difficult to satisfy each and every non Punjabi of the federation but by virtue of family based politics it becomes easy , all you need is an effective sardar or feudal landlord or notable trader or professional who has the gaddi as well as the ability to keep a greater mass of people in their area , you share power with him and that runs the state .
All which needs to be constantly looked at is that sardar or hereditary politicians or pir or party leaders have sufficient interest in state itself , if say a Baluchi leader has house or property in Quetta ,Karachi ,Islamabad , may be a child or two is studying locally , then there is no worry even if he utters a few words of parochial nature consistent with their culture ,because he is embedded in Pakistan with his dearest money and children . Same stands for Pathan chiefs or tribal leaders or Sindhi leaders . Without such ordered social structure in other provinces running Pakistan was impossible , this structure has partly broken in KPK and what you have is traditional political leadership being killed by armed Taliban and Imran khan supporting Taliban ,hailing them as biggest local invention ever ,as if .
Hereditary political parties work well in Punjab as well, compare jamaat Islami and PMLN , jamaat is not hereditary , it is near extinction in public life ,whereas Nawaz might still survive and is very much there . MQM chief is not well, hereditary line is not there , Punjab might have a difficult time when Altaf dies , whom to talk to will be an issue .Musharaf cognizant of Altaf health has already placed himself locally but he will not be allowed to get it when times comes.
An important point in politics of Pakistan is that no matter what is the format of social leadership , be it hereditary political party , ordinary political party , clubs ,pir Faqirs , or even tablighi jamaat , all act as power and contact club .participant of theirs benefit from it . People want to keep sticking to their arrangements of influence be it rotary club or be it president of market or be it shah sahib the big pir .
So when Imran talks about condemning hereditary leadership , he is talking childish , he has every right to make his party available to those who do not want to follow a hereditary leader but to criticise Nawaz or Shehbaz is unnecessary , if some people in Punjab think of shehbaz as their king or report to him even when they are not in power it is their choice . One non hereditary politician of Potohar told me that some people in his town have no assets , their only hope is him to get something out of it .
The very target of west and other enemies of Pakistan is its nuke and its federal structure , they had local people like Gen.Naqvi of reconstruction bureau , Musharaf, Raza Rabbani who went to the very root of federalism to weaken it , Naqvi by way of police order and local bodies changes, Musharaf the boss by removing media control and raza rabbani by giving more autonomy to provinces ,all three undercutting power of federation .
Both Moghal Empire and Ottoman empire demise started with local rulers asking for provincial autonomy , so it is mandatory that before Nawaz and shahbaz leave the scene , some constitutional amendments are put in place to undo 18th amendment and make federation strong as under existing culture if these brothers go and different parties come in centre and province of Punjab ,the state anarchy will accelerate to unbelievable height. Enemies of Pakistan want the only hope of smaller province in insurrection ,I.e help from federation and Punjab should dissipate .
what did we get out of adult franchise based election of 1970, except breakup of Pakistan , what will UK get from non hereditary parties if referendum this week results in Scottish independence . What did Britain get out democracy when whilst fighting Germans they won but lost empire to USA .
the only problem with hereditary political parties and monarchial system was transfer of crown ,rendered more difficult by polygamy in Muslims . Second being some second rate prince coming up ,otherwise all glory of Islamic superpower hood over about 600years pertains to monarchial system .
A ground fact of federation of Pakistan is that Punjab has to play a crucial part to hold the federation together .
Now that is a delicate job, it is quite difficult to satisfy each and every non Punjabi of the federation but by virtue of family based politics it becomes easy , all you need is an effective sardar or feudal landlord or notable trader or professional who has the gaddi as well as the ability to keep a greater mass of people in their area , you share power with him and that runs the state .
All which needs to be constantly looked at is that sardar or hereditary politicians or pir or party leaders have sufficient interest in state itself , if say a Baluchi leader has house or property in Quetta ,Karachi ,Islamabad , may be a child or two is studying locally , then there is no worry even if he utters a few words of parochial nature consistent with their culture ,because he is embedded in Pakistan with his dearest money and children . Same stands for Pathan chiefs or tribal leaders or Sindhi leaders . Without such ordered social structure in other provinces running Pakistan was impossible , this structure has partly broken in KPK and what you have is traditional political leadership being killed by armed Taliban and Imran khan supporting Taliban ,hailing them as biggest local invention ever ,as if .
Hereditary political parties work well in Punjab as well, compare jamaat Islami and PMLN , jamaat is not hereditary , it is near extinction in public life ,whereas Nawaz might still survive and is very much there . MQM chief is not well, hereditary line is not there , Punjab might have a difficult time when Altaf dies , whom to talk to will be an issue .Musharaf cognizant of Altaf health has already placed himself locally but he will not be allowed to get it when times comes.
An important point in politics of Pakistan is that no matter what is the format of social leadership , be it hereditary political party , ordinary political party , clubs ,pir Faqirs , or even tablighi jamaat , all act as power and contact club .participant of theirs benefit from it . People want to keep sticking to their arrangements of influence be it rotary club or be it president of market or be it shah sahib the big pir .
So when Imran talks about condemning hereditary leadership , he is talking childish , he has every right to make his party available to those who do not want to follow a hereditary leader but to criticise Nawaz or Shehbaz is unnecessary , if some people in Punjab think of shehbaz as their king or report to him even when they are not in power it is their choice . One non hereditary politician of Potohar told me that some people in his town have no assets , their only hope is him to get something out of it .
The very target of west and other enemies of Pakistan is its nuke and its federal structure , they had local people like Gen.Naqvi of reconstruction bureau , Musharaf, Raza Rabbani who went to the very root of federalism to weaken it , Naqvi by way of police order and local bodies changes, Musharaf the boss by removing media control and raza rabbani by giving more autonomy to provinces ,all three undercutting power of federation .
Both Moghal Empire and Ottoman empire demise started with local rulers asking for provincial autonomy , so it is mandatory that before Nawaz and shahbaz leave the scene , some constitutional amendments are put in place to undo 18th amendment and make federation strong as under existing culture if these brothers go and different parties come in centre and province of Punjab ,the state anarchy will accelerate to unbelievable height. Enemies of Pakistan want the only hope of smaller province in insurrection ,I.e help from federation and Punjab should dissipate .
what did we get out of adult franchise based election of 1970, except breakup of Pakistan , what will UK get from non hereditary parties if referendum this week results in Scottish independence . What did Britain get out democracy when whilst fighting Germans they won but lost empire to USA .
the only problem with hereditary political parties and monarchial system was transfer of crown ,rendered more difficult by polygamy in Muslims . Second being some second rate prince coming up ,otherwise all glory of Islamic superpower hood over about 600years pertains to monarchial system .
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