If you know a Pakistani politician, send them a thank you note.
Today they have accomplished the most important piece of legislation. They did it religiously, without wasting a breath, and in complete harmony, government and opposition.
Pakistani politicians today amended a law that required all candidates for the federal and provincial parliaments to be educated, as in graduates, having completed 12 years of formal education.
A 'dictator' called Pervez Musharraf had put in place this condition. How outrageous of him, that military ruler. How dare he!
By insisting that the rulers of the country be educated, the 'dictator' offended the feudal landlord-politicians of the country.
Thing is, these landlord-politicians now have educated progeny that has started making its own beeline for parliament seats.
In a decade or two our parliament will be a 'graduate assembly' anyway.
So why the rush to pass this amendment?
The reason is that the 'old guard' among the landlord-politicians continue to be around and in large numbers; uncouth feudal landlords without degrees and, may I also say, pedigrees. [I have more respect for the tribal landlords of Balochistan because at least they are genuine. The rest of the Pakistani feudal landlords are fakes: All of them claim lineage from our great Prophet! And hence the right to own large pieces of land where they are also entitled to enslave people for generations! By the way, the Arabs are really offended at this large number of self-claimed descendants of our Prophet among Pakistan's landlord-politicians. One Arab friend of mine came to Islamabad last year and asked me this, 'Wait a minute, the Prophet was an Arab. How come all his progeny is in Pakistan! And that too inside the federal parliament!].
Long live Pakistani democracy [until the next military 'dictator', which looks soon by the way things are going.]
Who do you perceive as the next strongman, or would you rather not say?
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ReplyDeleteDescendants of the Prophet escaped from Arab and then persian countries(this was like hundreds of years ago) to escape persecution from local rulers who were killing them indiscriminatly ... That is why there are only a few arabs who claim lineage from the Holy Prophet and loads of families in pakistan who do claim direct lineage , I know for sure that the Current PM and FM are direct Descendants
ReplyDeleteAltho just because you are a direct descendant dosnt mean you can take 10% kick backs and buy french subs to increase you bank balance
You cannot claim to know the ancestory of anyone without rigorous research. Our politician are dirty, filthy manipulators. But even if there was a coup, how would it help in the least bit?
ReplyDeleteI did not know there were any records of bastard children of the Prophet born to his concubines. (There are no direct lineal descendants of the Prophet!)
ReplyDeleteDoes our host Mr Quraishi claim to be a clansman of the Prophet?