First Pakistani election 1951 , mishandling & Federal agenda. Do we learn some lesson
powerful non elected elite esp ICS officershad rigid the first Pakistani elections in 1951. That was a historic time, had liaqat ali Khan stopped ICS officers sitting in Karachi from rigging the Punjab elections with the help of police and civil officers like DCs, Commissioners etc, we had a different history. Liaqat govt at that time wanted to fix the Punjab so he had already dismissed Mian Iftiqar hussain mamdoot govt in 1949. from that day till election eve, Punjab was under Governor rule. In elections Mamdoot and H.S.suhrawardy joined together as both were against Liaqat sarkar. There were some more groups or parties or individuals who were victim of Liaqat policies. Some of them were also taking part in elections like Mian Iftiqar u din of PPL, Begum Nasim Akbar/shahnawaz ( paternal grand daughter of Mian M Shafi who founded name of Muslim league and daughter of Begum Jahan ara Shahnawaz) and Mirza Abrahim, the famous trade unionist who had support from Communist Party of West Pakistan ( among his supporters included Faiz Ahmad Faiz, arik Spreen, Dada Faroze, C R aslam etc). Just before election eve, a darama was launched and in history it was remembered as Pindi Conspiracy case. with the help of interigues and conspiracies federal government fixed her opponents and Liaqat supporters won but in public this election still remembered as JHURLO, means the big rigging. Poet & Editor, Faiz Ahmad Faiz was among nominated people, got sentence too. Captain zafar Ullah Poshni is among the only servivals of that conspiracy and still living in Karchi. this amritseri wrote a marvellous book in which he recorded Jail Days memoires. an ex civil servant hassan zahier too wrote a book yet as usual he wrote half truth. in-spite of massive rigging, H.S.Suhrawardy and mamdoot party Jinnah awami league won 32 seats and in 2013 we remembered both 1951 election is remembered as Bad Policy. will we learned lessons? interestingly, in 2013 election in Punjab same Faiz sahib's daughter is among provincial monitors and we hope she will resist if observes 1951 action re-play. i tried to write a pice on this event which is as
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