Right Choice
Strengthening of Elected Tier
in Pakistan and a Challenge too
Choice of Mian Raza Rabbani
as Chairman of Senate shows the maturity of elected tier in Pakistan. There are
reservations regarding selection of deputy chairman yet unopposed election of a
person who has history to challenge both Zia and Musharaf is an achievement of
Pakistani political system. Informed & smart media persons tried to play as
usual with the Senate Election but the result proved them wrong again. Born in
a family of Jalandri arians at Lhore, Raza played an important role not only
regarding restoration of democracy, provincial harmony but also keeping the
right direction of his comrades. His father, an officer of Air force was ADC of
Jinnah and he worked under Z A Bhutto and Benazier Bhutto and with such legacy
he is now sitting on the seat of Chairmanship of Senate. It is the 3rd
important seat after PM and President and out of three the important seats two
are from Karachi yet Punjab, KPK, Baluchistan did not object on it which is a
good signal. Federalism and provincial harmony are two loves of Raza and he should
play his role in reducing provincial tensions. From the early tears our
establishment has a colonial legacy of centralism and to protect centralist
mindset they remained busy in playing with provincial differences. For this
they coined Big province versus small provinces tactics and played against the biggest
province Bengal till 1971. Post 1971 scenario showed that they are still
playing with the tactics as usual. Zia played with Punjab versus three
provinces and during his last days Bazenjo realized that game plan and said
“Keeping all these possibilities in mind, and the
objective conditions around us, I had reached the conclusion that the aim of
our mobilization should not be predicated on Punjab-Bashing and Secession. On
the contrary, we should unite and fight for the political and economic rights
of different nationalities within the framework of Pakistan.”
Page 214, In
Search of Solutions: An autobiography of Mir Ghaus Baksh Bazenjo edited by his
political advisor B.M.Kutty published by Pakistan Study Centre University of
Karachi & Pakistan Labour Trust, Karachi Sindh in 2009.
From Kalabagh dame, breaking of provinces till playing with languages and dialect
issues we have a history of unresolved things but it is a time to resolve such
issues at federal level and senate can play an important role in this regard.
The issue of more powers for senate is important and one should adopt election
of Senate issue on similar line as we elect women seats in National Assembly. Mixture of Presidential and Parliamentary form
of government is a twist. But some forces are still reluctant to strengthen
elected tier and political parties in Pakistan. Raza’s selection is a test
rather than luxury for him.
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الندھر کے آرائیں خاندان میں پیدا ہونے والے رضا ربانی کا شمار پیپلز پارٹی کے ان مستقبل مزاج سیاسی رہنماؤں میں ہوتا ہے جنھوں نے نہ تو کبھی کسی چوہدری کی طرح بیچ طوفان پارٹی کو چھوڑا، نہ کبھی پارٹی کی پیٹھ میں کسی لغاری کی طرح چھرا گھونپا اور نہ ہی رات کی تاریکیوں میں کسی مخدوم کی طرح آمروں یا ان کے حواریوں سے ملاقاتیں کیں۔ یہی ان کا ’’جرم‘‘ ہے اور یہی ان کی صفت۔ -
سینیٹ انتخابات سے قبل میڈیا نے جو ’’طوفان بدتمیزی‘‘ چائے کی پیالی میں برپا کیا تھا اس کے اختتام پر رضا کی آمد شاندار جواب کہ جمہوریت بہترین انتقام ہے۔ 2006 کے بعد تسلسل سے پاکستانی سیاستدان وطن عزیز کو آمریتوں کی گو دی سے نکالنے میں کامیاب ضرور ہیں کہ یہی عمل پاکستان کے وقار کی ضمانت ہے۔ آصف زراری نے رضاربانی کے بطور چیرمین سینیٹ انتخاب اور نواز شریف نے بروقت اس کی تائید سے ’’عزت سادات‘‘ قائم رکھی مگر رضا کو نئے امتحانوں سے دوچار کر دیا کہ اب رضا صوفی کے’’ کرب‘‘ اور جوگی کی ’’کوک‘‘ کو سمجھ پائیں گے۔ -
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