5TH JULY A DARK NIGHT ON DEMOCRACY

TODAY IS 5TH OF JULY YES THE DAY MARKED WITH THE WORST POLITICAL SCENARIO THAT CHANGED THE PAKISTANI POLITICS FOR MANY YEARS TO COME ..HERE WE WILL DISCUSS THE CONTEXTUAL MEANINGS OF 5TH JULY .. ON THIS VERY DAY THE ARMY MAINLY LEAD BY GENERAL ZIA UL HAQ CAPTURED THE GOVERNMENT AND DETHRONED THE GOVERNMENT OF PPP LEAD BY MR Z.A BHUTTO ON THE BASIS OF CORRUPTION AND FOR CAPTURING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE THUS THIS DAY MAY BE REMEMBERED AS A DAY WHICH CREATED HAVOC FOR  THE YEARS TO COME THUS MR ZIAUL HAQ NOT ONLY CRIPPLED PAKISTAN BUT DE. STABILIZED  IT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME... HE PROMISED THAT HE WILL RETURN THE POWER TO PEOPLES REPRESENTATIVES IN 90 DAYS BUT IT GRADUALLY TURNED IT TO 11 YEARS LONG RULE ....BUT WHY DID HE OVER THROW-ED THE GOVERNMENT THE ANSWER LIES VERY SIMPLE THAT ARMY WANTED TO INTERFERE IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM YET HE WAS WORKING ON USA MISSION THUS HE BADLY CHANGED THE POLITICAL SCENERIO OF PAKISTAN..

It is necessary to recall that Mr. Bhutto did not stand for a liberal capitalist democracy like many of today’s Pakistani liberals. Like many Asian leaders, he believed that the need for democracy had to be balanced against the demands of social and economic justice in very poor and developing countries. He personally was in favour a presidential form of government that was not a hostage to the demands and vested interests of members of parliament.While he is criticised for not fulfilling many of his promises, the fact is he did more than any other leader to shift the balance of economic power from a privileged few to the poor: from capitalists to the labourers, from waderas to haris, from jagirdars to the peasants, from khans to the muzarais, and from sardars to the commoners. In the end, he antagonised all the most powerful sections of the society. In January 1977, he introduced the second set of land reforms and, for the first and only time in history, imposed federal income tax on agricultural income. That alienated the feudals even among his party. The feudals were happy to see him go to the gallows even as they paid lip service to his leadership.It is a tribute to Bhutto and a testament of his pro-people policies that the PPP went on to win many elections after his death and remains the only federal party despite the tragic fact that it is now led by the son of one of his many adversaries who celebrated his death. Mr. Bhutto never could have imagined that his party would be hijacked by a motley band of carpetbeggars, ISI-controlled politicians, former Jamaat-e-Islami activists, and mercenaries..... DO SHARE UR COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS