Oct 18: Another nail in the coffin of democracy

Benazir is about to come back to the country cleverly (yet stupidly) disguised as a fresh breath of democracy for Pakistan. The whole nation knows what Benazir and the dictator have been cooking all along. She's been making so called 'deals' with the current government asking for a share in power. With Benazir, it always have been the fatal attraction of Power and nothing else that has ever been close to becoming a reason for her return to Pakistan.

The extremely funny and ironic thing about this is that the PPP and the disgraceful lady herself are trying to give her the title of 'Fateh-e-Jam'hooriyat' (the victorious in democracy). I really fail to see who are these cunning and shameless politicians trying to fool. The media has been full of news about the DEAL between Banazir and the General, the way the Mohtarma has been begging and pleading in front of the West for letting her gain Power once more, and the willingness and the extent to which she's ready to go to make West feel good about their decisions to promote her as the right person to rule. She's been literally willing to do anything that could gain her even a tiny bit of recognition in the eyes of the West for being a total sold-out pro-Western leader. In doing so, not even for a moment did she mention the 140 million Pakistanis as even an audience (let alone participants) to her disgraceful displays of Western dependencies. No, they're just useless, illiterate voters with no awareness at all who she doesn't even need to address this time. No, this time her Western masters and the General would directly help her come into power, and give her a reason to come back to Pakistan which she would never have had if she didn't have a powerful guarantee of premiership. Democracy has nothing at all to do with her return!

And yet this is the woman who is being addressed as Fateh-e-Jamhooriyat by her seemingly blind party members. And this is how the fate of a country of 140 million is going to be decided. It is rightly said that the political parties have no right to speak of democracy as they themselves never had properly elected party leaders. Political parties in Pakistan are mostly run on kinship basis. This is the only reason that selfish puppets can remain leaders in their parties.