If Voting Changed anything, they would make it Illegal!

What people don't realize is that the real drivers of the change in a mature democratic country (and we are not yet there) are not public representative elected through voting, but various stakeholders like Local and Multinational Corporations, Globally Connected Financial and Monetary System, Civil Society (which by definition is secular and liberal), Military Industry, Intelligence Agencies, Free (Sponsored) Media, NGOs (local and Foreign), Bureaucracy etc... All of them influence and derives the system indirectly, while the politicians remains in the front and indirectly serve the agenda of these stakeholders. This is the complete view of the system... changing of politicians through elections, is more like changing of salesmen as per the wishes of the customers, but the salesman would sell the same products manufactured by respective stakeholders, not exactly to serve the customer's need but for their own benefit... If this is correct, then election is just a change of faces, nothing else!

In Pakistan its primarily Feudal Filthy Politicians, Corrupt Bureaucracy, Free (read puppet) Judiciary,  Free (read slave) Media, Army, Local Agencies, International Agencies, IMF etc, who determines what's coming next in this country, the public is never suppose to be part of anything, democracy/elections are just a facade, deception to make people believe that whatever is happening is happening according to the majority's will... in Pakistan the problem isn't the rigging, but the way it was done so poorly that everyone came to realize that it was happening... ideally its suppose to be done in very crafty manner so that the public never finds out about it. Wake Up, first we need to realize the nature and intensity of the problem, then think of the appropriate solution for that.

Read the following article by a very senior and renowned journalist of Pakistan to understand the game plan  for the next five years. 

You Son of a Gun, Musharraf

Disclaimer: The views in this article are of the author's only, and doesn't reflects the point of view of Critic's Den team. 

By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)

If not you at least I find it perplexing to fathom out any reason for the return of Musharraf at this juncture of our political commotion. No sane person in his proper senses would return from the safe havens of Dubai and London to face three murder trials – Benazir, Lal Masjid and Akbar Bugti, a number of high treason petitions and violation of article 6 charges, a host of hostile political parties and civil society organizations, an army with a no nonsense and an indifferent attitude and on the top of it all with no political future.

Getting Ready for... ?

Agreed, he is not that brilliant but he is not that stupid also to return to a starving lion’s den waiting excitedly for his prey (lion in the literal sense and not the symbolic MLN’s NS’s lion). Does he have a hope in hell to win a seat or two for his APML party other than probably his own? Would he be just contented to be an MNA and listen to the speeches of the ones whom he once never considered his equals? Is he made of the material that would let him play what to talk of the proverbial second fiddle the third, fourth or the more likely umpteenth fiddle? If not, what the heck is he doing and at this time of the history in Pakistan? I asked my more knowledgeable friends and some of their answers baffled me further. 

Gen Hamid Gul said that Musharraf was a fool and one could expect anything from him. To reinforce his assessment he added, “Had he not been one he would not have ventured Kargil”. Well … fool he might be when others’ skin is involved but I don’t think he is that fool to put his own neck under the guillotine that willingly!