The Smokescreen of Pakistan

Restoration of Judiciary Movement in Pakistan: A Smokescreen for Helping the Permanent Establishment Maintain Its Hegemony


Islam and Politics

Wednesday, Mar 25 2009

Restoration of Judiciary Movement in Pakistan: A Smokescreen for Helping the Permanent Establishment Maintain Its Hegemony

If the socio-economic background of Ajmal Qassab and other terrorists who brutalised Mumbai recently is anything to go by, the terror factories of Pakistan have an endless manpower resource available in the form of a vast army of rural and urban unemployed in Pakistan. A leadership committed to peace and prosperity of Pakistan would have utilised the recent opportunity provided by the freedom for judiciary movement to bring the permanent establishment of Pakistan to its knees. But alas, the middle class leadership that ran this movement merely brought people on the streets to effectively release the pressure from various social, political and economic pressure-cookers and thus only help the Permanent Establishment to maintain its hegemony.

Few people know that when the middle classes of Pakistan were organizing nationwide struggle in the name of restoration of the freedom of judiciary, Haaris (landless peasantry and women workers) were also on a long, barefoot march to Karachi. They walked on foot hundreds of miles from the interiors of Sindh to the state capital Karachi, demanding immediate disbursal of land and calling for change in tenancy laws. The middle class media ignored them completely and kept its focus on the extravagant show of shining cars in the cavalcade of top politicians and lawyers that was only meant to ultimately strengthen the permanent establishment of Pakistan.
Saddened by this missed opportunity which only rarely comes in the history of nations when they can bring their ruling classes to their knees and act as a catalyst for real change, Dubai-based Indian writer Shamshad Elahee Ansari quotes from Habeeb Jalib’s haunting poetry to express his own anguish.

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