Under the circumstances, IK desperately wanted any crutches.
JIP desperately wanted its mayor to be elected.
That desperation is always bad in politics and bad politics as well.
JIP provided IK with the crutches (ڈوبتے کو تنکے کا سہارا) at a time when the IK’s party, PTI has abandoned him and the Party itself stands nowhere.
This desperate and bad politics of JIP made it loose its political verve and space.
JIP is never good at playing good politics and a win-win game.
Because at heart, at its core, it considers itself as a self-righteous entity. And whoever considers itself self-righteous has an uncontested claim to the throne and nothing but the throne.
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خود پارسائیت کا مطلب یہ ہے کہ صرف اور صرف میں پارسا اور ٹھیک ہوں، اور باقی سب گنہ گار اور غلط ہیں۔ یہ ایک نہایت تباہ کن رجحان ہے۔ اس کا بڑا شاخسانہ یہ ہے کہ دوسروں کی رائے کی کوئی وقعت نہیں رہتی۔ لہٰذا، فسطائی، اپنے علاوہ دوسرے لوگوں سے رائے کی آزادی کا حق چھین لیتے ہیں۔
ویسے تو خودپارسائیت کا یہ فسطائی رجحان پاکستان میں شروع سے موجود تھا۔ مگر سیاست میں اس کا غلبہ تحریکِ انصاف سے خاص ہے۔
یہی رجحان ہے، جو عمران خان اور یوں تحریکِ انصاف میں ابتدا سے جاری و ساری تھا۔ اور اسی رجحان کی شناخت کے سبب میں نے 2012 ہی میں تحریکِ انصاف کی سیاسی حقیقت کو کھول کر بیان کر دیا تھا (دیکھیں میری کتاب: سیاسی پارٹیاں یا سیاسی بندوبست، جولائی 2012)۔ یعنی یہ جماعت اگر کسی طرح اقتدار میں آ بھی گئی، تو کارکردگی نہیں دکھا …
سیاسی قضیے: یکم جولائی، 2018
میں ایک ایسے گھرانے میں پیدا ہوا، جو سراسر بے مایہ تھا۔
تربیت، دیانت داری کے چلن پر ہوئی۔ کسی کو برا نہیں کہنا۔ کسی کو دھوکہ نہیں دینا۔ کسی کو نقصان نہیں پہنچانا۔
یہ اخلاقی باتیں اچھی بھی لگیں۔ کوشش کی زندگی ان کے مطابق گزاروں۔
وہ دنیا ایک عجیب دنیا تھی، بھَری پُری۔ دلچسپیاں ہی دلچسپیاں، اطمینان ہی اطمینان۔ کوئی محرومی نہیں۔
پھر شعور نے آنکھ کھولی۔ اپنی چھوٹی سی دنیا سے باہر نکلا۔ بہت کچھ دیکھا اور سمجھا۔
پہلا فکری سانچہ، جس کی تعلیم ان دنوں میسر تھی اور جو مجھے بھی منتقل ہوئی، اس کی صورت گری ’’سوشلزم‘‘ سے ہوئی تھی۔
اب محرومیوں نے ہر طرف سے گھیر لیا۔ ہر محرومی، استحصال کا نتیجہ تھی۔
مگر میں رکنے والا نہیں تھا۔ سوشلسٹ سے آگے بڑھ کر، مارکس پسند بن گیا۔
پھر تعلیم ختم ہوتے ہوتے، یہ سب کچھ ہوَا ہو گیا، …
Here is the 1st part of this article:
Cynicism in Pakistan
Cynicism and the politics in Pakistan
Among other things, political cynicism destroys whatever little chance may exist for dialogue in a deteriorating situation. This I learned from our own company of friends. Frankly, that learning came at the cost of that company’s dissolution.
Actually we were three to five friends who used to gather in a restaurant for chatting after a week or so, regularly. One friend was too adamant to sustain a dialogue. It was really next to impossible to converse with him. You say one thing and he will trash it without any consideration. No doubt, he was fond of conspiracy theories, and thus for him it was so easier to reject our views without having any recourse to reason. His manner of rejecting our views was so scornful that one could only bear it by blowing
Here is the first part of this article:
A depoliticized Pakistan on the rampage
The 2nd and the final part: Depoliticization and its causes
What’s a depoliticized Pakistan; how is it different from a politically apathetic Pakistan; how is it damaging both for the society and its state; who does now represent it, such questions were discussed in A depoliticized Pakistan on the rampage. In the present piece, some other questions will be dwelt on such as: why doesn’t a depoliticized India or Bangladesh exist in India or Bangladesh, for example? Why that’s so only with Pakistan? Why is Pakistan so fecund for such elements? What are the elements that feed milk and butter to a depoliticized Pakistan?
Since long it has been my contention that the main culprit for the backward Pakistan is Politicians. In this case also, the main culprit for a depoliticized Pakistan is again Politicians.
So to say, in about 70 years, the political gains Pakistan’s polity has been able to make are dismal! Pessimistically, it’s NOTHING! Optimistically, it’s merely the Constitution that itself came to be agreed upon about 25 years after the country’s emergence on the map of the world. That casts a heavy doubt on the credence of Pakistan’s polity. Politically speaking, things stand in the same mould now they stood on the first day. The final verdict on the quality of the Pak polity may thus be worded: The citizens still live at their own risk in a country which is consuming itself by its own pseudo-nationalist, religious, militarist rhetoric!
No wrangling, the fact is that no politician and no political party find the constitution and its provisions tolerable to their will and temperament; they trample them whenever they see any of it
The pivot of politics is always seeking power, so that a political party is able, so to say, to implement its program on the basis of which it wins voters’ mandate. That’s an ideal statement of an ideal polity! In reality it doesn’t happen like that. There are betrayals, treacheries, and opportunism on the part of political parties. There is perennial interference, for instance in the case of Pakistan, by the players who are external to the political realm but are always intent upon unleashing political instability and uncertainty in the country. Also, there are other elements different from both of the above, who now and then venture to seek power but in non-political ways. For such elements the society of Pakistan has always proved unimaginably fertile. That’s what may be termed a depoliticized Pakistan!
Let’s try to understand what it is
The title of this piece appears to be problematic. One can argue how cynicism may be confined to geographical specifications such as one of Pakistani type. But Pakistani cynicism may be justified on the ground that whatever its general meaning, the way a cynicism formulates in a society makes it special. Thus this piece tries to identify specific Pakistani attributes of cynicism.
Let’s try to have an idea of what cynicism generally stands for. First, it implies that all the ‘people are motivated by selfishness.’ Another most important and most common trait is that a cynic’s ‘outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative.’
As a philosophical term cynicism means something quite different. It was ‘a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.’ So, philosophically cynicism relates to the Cynics and their beliefs.
In order to understand the wider meaning of cynicism, a
Mr. Khan now be serious! Somehow the circumstances have made you a political leader. Now you lead a political party, which has a considerable following; no matter which class or classes it consists of. The followers of your party, they are all Pakistanis, and enjoy the same political choices as the followers of other political parties do.
It was just non-serious and out of sync when recently you spoke in Islamabad, and said, ‘I was boring; New Pakistan was not anywhere on the scene coming into being. Then I thought something had to be done.’ Regarding this, you need to ask yourself: Is it political? Is there in politics anything like boring, and that it exhorts you to do something, such as organizing rallies and doing “political fun.”
It’s quite a pertinent question that must be put to you and you must answer it clearly; no hanky-panky, please! What you
