Politics is an important thing these days, seeing all the influence it has on our daily lives. Politics in their own way shape a country, because with the common use of social media today news spreads like wildfires, victimizing everyone in their path. In this blog article I’ll be talking about politics in Pakistan, and you’d be surprised to find out that some of these things do exist in reality.
Politics in any country never have a clean history. There is always one black sheep among the field of white. It depends on the country’s people itself to determine how much of an influence politics have on their country. In Pakistan, a country that got its independance from India in 1947, is a concrete example of how corruption creeps in quietly through the empty pockets of people and blinds them, manipulating them like a puppet on strings. The first few years of a newly born country were difficult of course since they had just been cut off from India, and then in a few more years, from East Pakistan, now known as Bangladesh.
Fast forwarding a little bit, in the late 1980’s when Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to govern a muslim-majority country, is elected as the prime minister is when the real deal starts. Just a side note, in the Indian subcontinent, the prime minister has more federal power than the president. Anyways, she became prime minister twice successfully, her rival being the infamous Nawaz Sharif. Well she had a husband, like any regular woman would, except her husband was evil and that was proven when she was assassinated. People say, and they say a lot, that in the beginning of her time as the prime minister, she wasn’t the ideal prime minister people expected she’d be. Something about not having their best interests at heart probably. And they say she gradually realized that, and when she appeared in the elections again for a third time, she was the “good guy”. Yes people love stories with good and bad guys, talking of whom, here’s the one destined to be the villain in this not so happy story. Her husband, Asif Zardari, got to know about her “magically turning over a new leaf” and decided to take matters into his hands. On the morning of December 27th 2007, in the city of Rawalpindi, she was meant to meet with the public and was arriving in her car. General Perwez Musharaf, the army general at the time, sensed something weird in the surroundings and asked her to not step out of the car. But Mr. ‘I’m Your Husband You Should Listen To Me’ came along and told her to step out of the car and wave to the people. Oh and next thing she knew, well she didn’t because she was shot in the head, assasinated for those who don’t like picturing people getting shot in the head (even though I feel assasinated didn’t make it any better). And not just that, the sniper even bombed the surroundings so that no one could tell who it was. That’s right, they killed a bunch of innocent people trying to get rid of a woman, all stated above done purposely. This is what politics do. And what desi people do too! Sure all that might sound very exaggerated, but at least it’s better than the lies the news channel fed the public. First rule of politics in the Indian subcontinent, why believe those annoying news reporters talking like robots when you have fresh rumors with a spice of exaggeration? If you search it up you might find no links at all to Zardari in Benazir’s assasination. But of course we never know it might be true he played a role, even if minor, in the assasination of his wife.
Moving on, the next couple of years saw feuds between Nawaz Sharif’s Noon League and Zardari’s People’s Party. The two groups literally hated each other and wanted nothing more than squashing the other like a bug under their feet. Nevermind assasinating their wives definitely wins that battle. Every other day you would see news reporters in a frenzy telling us all the lies both sides accused the other for. Well what else did you expect from a bunch of hopeless immatures running around calling their sons back to inherit their legacy (Zardari) or just running away from the country because of physical problems that are none of our business (Nawaz). And then came Imran Khan. You might’ve heard his name, pretty famous back in his day for winning the first cricket ODI world cup for Pakistan as the captain (and the only one to hit a six in the massive Melbourne station, anyways moving on). Oh he’s also famous for falling down from the stage at an election rally and suffering from severe head injuries. Well the man tried his best for three years in a row and finally pulled the lucky straw in 2018 where he won the elections and became Pakistan’s prime minister, the first good one in a while actually. I could ramble on with a long list on how we’re better off with him than the other two side chicks, but that would be too boring.
10th April 2022, doomsday. Okay well maybe that’s too exaggerated but it wasn’t a pleasant morning bcz instead of waking up to chirping birds, Imran Khan woke up to his seat of power taken away. Never once in the history of pakistan did this happen before, and it’s all those childish jealous kids fault. He was ousted as the country's leader following a vote of no confidence over allegations of economic mismanagement and mishandling of the country's foreign policy, bringing an end to his tumultuous term in office. The parliamentary vote, held Sunday, saw the former cricket star defeated, the opposition needed a maximum of 172 votes out of the 342 member assembly to oust him. And the people say they went for trial at midnight on a Sunday when the courthouse is closed. Damn they couldn’t have been more discreet. I swear no one suspects them, oh no how could they find a mere bunch of scaredy cats who opened trial at literally midnight to kick their opponent from his power? Even Voldemort is staring at them in disbelief, but of course he failed to take over a school of kids so he’s one to judge. Well that happened and of course the public was in the favor of Imran Khan, I mean who would want to be in favor of tasteless people who increase gas prices? Exactly, no one. Ever since then, he’s been holding many “jalsa” which means a big gathering of public supporters, mainly held to show the power one holds, in various Pakistani cities. With his policy of kicking out the “imported hakumat” (imported government) from Pakistan, he’s been successful in getting more and more people on his side and is now eagerly waiting for the Parliament to hold fair elections this year, as he previously publicly stated.
Of course he would have the ultimate support of people, but if the opposing side wins, just know that people are easily bought with money these days!
Thank you for this very interesting article. I love the little jokes you put inside this article such as : "I mean who would want to be in favor of tasteless people who increase gas prices". And just so you know, I will always be an Imran Khan supporter and the last person who I will be the supporter of is Nawaz Sharif : )
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