Whatever the outcome of Imran’s present movement, the status quo is gone, it is dying. What Imran has already achieved cannot be undone at the flick of a switch. They cannot just wish it away, no more. What Imran has already inspired has far reaching consequences. It will affect the Pakistan that our children inhabit; it will affect everybody forever, across the whole country. For me what matters a lot is that after 37 years, Imran has upended Zia’s political heritage of corruption, sleaze, cronyism, nepotism, and opportunism personified by the political creed where the same faces keep hopping from one political party to the other. The change that Imran has set in motion will one day dismantle the privilege-barriers that have protected the feudal lords, clergy, urban oligarchies, and corrupt moneyed people to establish the principle of equality before the law. Sustained political mobilisation of the educated middle class will change the political culture and it is only a matter of time before the consciousness of people destroys the power of oligarchies and elites opposed to the change that Pakistan is clamouring for. lubp.net/archives/323573
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:29:20 +0000