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Is Nawaz doing a disservice to democracy?

Posted on: Mon June 14, 2010

ISLAMABAD: Like President Zardari-led PPP s misrule, Mian Nawaz Sharif s friendly opposition is also a great disservice to democracy.

If those in power have become a threat to democracy because of their own ill-doings, as rightly said by Nawaz Sharif several times, the PML-N too has its share in pushing the things to such a state because of its indifferent attitude and ineffective opposition.

While those in power are making Pakistan and the state institutions weaker by corruption, poor governance and favouritism, the Nawaz-led opposition is condoning all this by its utter inaction. People are suffering and the institutions are tumbling one after the other at the hands of the incompetent and crooked rulers but the N-League is adding to their (people) woes by not coming to their rescue.

All this makes people believe that the PPP and the PML-N are two sides of the same coin. It took Asif Ali Zardari no time to get exposed as soon as his party came to power.

He broke promises, got inducted all his tainted associates in the government and offered them lucrative positions, changed the very face of Bhuttos PPP, protected and promoted the alleged corrupt and even the proven corrupt (convicts), accepted foreign dictates like never before, set new precedents of nepotism and misrule, made Pakistan more corrupt, reduced Parliament into a rubber stamp, picked up a prime minister who has no vision and enjoys being a dummy chief executive, and left the nation in such a state where people are cursing themselves for voting him to power.

As against Zardari, Nawaz Sharif during his post-exile revolutionary mode started well, talked of principles for which he made his men to quit the federal cabinet, resolved not to revert to the era of 90s where the government-opposition used to be at dagger drawn against each other in all situations and for their petty political gains, and finally successful led the long march of early 2009 to get the independent judiciary restored.

His participation in the long march made history but that great event instead of encouraging him to do more to change the destiny of Pakistan pushed him to such a boring and agonising inactive mode that no matter what the rulers do, Mian Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N remain unmoved as their revolutionary zeal has disappeared altogether.

Till March 16, 2009, Nawaz Sharif appeared like a better politician than before but the last 15 months proved him indifferent and unconcerned to the growing miseries of the people.Such is the disappointing role of the PML-N today that even the PPP parliamentarians are cursing it on the floor of the house for being a friendly opposition .

Nabeel Gabol and another PPP MNA have urged it to boycott the assembly proceedings, refuse to join those approving anti-people finance bill and hold public demonstrations to target the corrupt in the regime, seek trial of General Musharraf and press the government to meet some of its other demands.

Gabol even suggested to the PML-N to link its support to the finance bill with acceptance of some of its demands including tabling before the National Assembly names of big bank loan defaulters.

But Nawaz Sharif does not want to protest. He is no more interested to set conditions or given deadlines for mass protest.

He and his party now believe that boycotts, public demonstrations, long marches and other means of registering protest and bringing pressure on the unruly regime is akin to threatening the system and returning to the condemned era of 90s. The PML-N has attained such nonsensical heights of pragmatism and maturity that it deems it fit to be a silent spectator while the nation slips deeper into morass.

Courtesy : The News