tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259162911831467271.post6799917328369489225..comments2023-05-07T15:55:07.365+00:00Comments on Ramblings from Afar: We Are Mindless...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259162911831467271.post-46932852007385002152007-11-16T03:41:00.000+00:002007-11-16T03:41:00.000+00:00Good comment and some good points there. I agree w...Good comment and some good points there. I agree with you about the PPP. BB's megalomania is disturbing and the fact that she has had herself declared 'leader for life' of her party suggests that there will not be any major improvement there for a while. Its instructive that while BB shuttles around from photo-op to photo-op, Atizaz Ahsan is still in solitary confinement. It is said that after his recent visit to the states where he was invited to speak about the judicial crisis, BB didn't like him getting the limelight and has been giving him the cold shoulder ever since. Sad.SuperwebGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17953279344816380313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259162911831467271.post-55499471619899565082007-11-14T13:45:00.000+00:002007-11-14T13:45:00.000+00:00Nice write up. I agree that whatever the constitut...Nice write up. I agree that whatever the constitution of our next government may be but a free media and an assertive judiciary in the last few years have been our biggest achievement. It will put in place a system of checks and balances to curb rampant corruption among politicians. Trouble with our politicians is that they mostly belong to the feudal or industrialist class and their mindset is different from our educated middle class. It’s because their goals are different. Their only motive seems to be lust for power and they don’t want power to attain some desirable goal like betterment of the nation but power for the sake of power.<BR/><BR/>Especially BB has a very feudal mindset and instead of making PPP a truly democratic party she has turned it into some sort of a monarchy. Brilliant people like Atizaz Ahsan are not given a position in the party which they deserve. Instead she prefers people like Amin Fahim, Rahman Malik and Sherry Rahman. Compared to PPP, PML (N) at least has a team of some good politicians like Chaudhry Nisar, Zafar Jhagra etc.<BR/><BR/>Finally along with a free media and an independent judiciary we also need political parties who are truly democratic in sense that they hold intra-party elections and the candidates campaign for fund raising instead of spending money from their own pocket. Just like Republican and Democratic party of USA. This way we can hope that people from educated middle class can also participate in elections and hopefully they wouldn’t be as corrupt as the present Graduate Assembly :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com