PPP backs Islamist rule in Sindh

Are we going back to the Pavilion?
Rasul Bux Palijo

Whatever the relief felt by the democratic forces of the country at the
virtual demolition of the Pro-Musharaf parties ( except of course the
super-privileged MQM ) in the 18th February elections, the basic structural
situation of the Pakistani state and society remains grim.

Pakistan continues to suffer and groan as a poverty-stricken, benighted,
backward, right-less and law-less neo-colony of the western powers headed by
the U.S. It is ruled by a hired mercenary military and civil establishment
tied to the war-chariot of western imperialism which is on a rampage of
re-conquest of the third world under the fig-leaf of a holy crusade against
the so-called Islamic terrorists. In fact they are none other than the very
same former freedom fighters declared to be of the same caliber and status
as the renowned founding fathers of U.S.A. and so-sanctified, enlisted
trained, armed and unleashed in Afghanistan against the God-less Russian and
Afghan communists by the great commander of the faithful and the freedom
fighters, the revered President Reagan himself. Retired general Musharaf who
had declared before the election that he would quit if the people turned
against him, has refused to do so now even after the virtual elimination in
recent elections of the parties supporting him. He remains dangerously armed
with his self proclaimed so-called "Constitutional powers" to dismiss the
just elected parliament, the ensuing government, the brand-new superior
judiciary created by him after dismissing the previous superior judiciary
headed by the original Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohd
Chaudhry, the power to impose an state of emergency, the power to keep
changing the Superior Judiciary through the mechanism of PCO Judges and
amending the Constitution virtually out of existence due to the lack of any
restrictions in Pakistan to the extent to which the Constitution may be
amended once a usurper general gets himself declared by the existing
Superior Judiciary to be competent to amend the Constitution of Pakistan.

As usual since two decades, MQM is once again being foisted by
the imperialist masters whose tried and tested tool of terrorism against
peaceful democratic people it has proved to be, as the ruler of Sindh in
spite of the decades-long havoc played by it over the people of Sindh
including thousands of target killings, mutilations, horrible tortures,
massive and routine loot and plunder of private and public properties and
resources and extortions.

It was allowed to continue its reign of terror and target
killings in Sindh specially in its provincial capital Karachi up to the very
last moment of the elections and even thereafter. After thousands of target
and mass killings not a single case has been allowed by the establishment
and its local stooges to be tried and concluded in any Court of law. All
cases are invariably withdrawn as a matter of course under some secret un
written law.

Now the PPP leadership has come out with a bland announcement
that MQM would again be foisted upon Sindh, this time with the victorious
PPP in its tow. In view of the PPP's determinedly negative and miss-leading
stand regarding the all important, fundamental and crucial questions of the
restoration of the original judiciary of the Superior Court led by the Chief
Justice Iftikhar Mohd Chaudhry, the necessity of getting rid of the self
chosen President Musharaf and his emergency-imposing, constitution- amending
Parliament and Juduciary-dismissin g powers and of his murderous accomplices
the MQM tormenters of the people of Sindh, it seems that in spite of all the
usual celebrities, the victory-processions and the brave rhetoric of "really
governing" and "changing the system" etc, the victory of PPP in the
elections does not appear to augur any meaningful and fundamental relief to
the oppressed and always betrayed people of Pakistan in general and those of
Sindh in particular.

Sindhi people have not forgotten the shock of their lives they
experienced at the attempted sudden about-turn and complete reversal of the
PPP leadership on the question of resisting the imposition of Kala Bagh dam
immediately following the release of the present co-chairman from jail.

Nothing seems to have changed excepting the replacement of
Musharaf's hypocritical and rhetoric pseudo "liberal and moderate" jargon by
similar rhetorical "radical and revolutionary" jargon.

Unless the patriotic people and workers of Sindh wake-up in
their thousands and millions to the imminent danger, firmly put their feet
down soon enough, and get the course of action corrected and set right, the
aftermath to the electoral exercise threatens to be leading to an imminent
irreversible national disaster for the crores of our peoples who have
hitherto been constantly oppressed, cheated and betrayed by the great
majority of their "chosen representatives" .

Rasul Bux Palijo
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