We chose the destiny
LAHORE: The NA-120 outcome was pronounced to be critical in many ways. For one, it was pronounced to envision a formula of a arriving 2018 elections to an border and on a other hand, infer if Maryam Nawaz was able adequate to lift out a successful campaign. Now with a PML-N’s candidate, Kulsoom Nawaz, winning a by-poll with over 14,000 votes, one can assume that a statute celebration is going to give a tough quarrel in a ubiquitous elections of 2018 with Maryam Nawaz substantially job a shots.
However, there is one thing that is infrequently pathetic about a NA-120 by-election: a opinion of a voters. There were a substantial volume of votes that could have done or pennyless someone’s win that were scrapped since they weren’t noted properly. There were also a poignant series of electorate that didn’t uncover adult to vote. And many importantly, electorate chose a claimant all since of her connection with a statute party. Kulsoom Nawaz has no former knowledge in politics other than being a initial lady and with a grade in Urdu language. Yet, she degraded a claimant who is a alloy by contention with mixed degrees from Pakistan and abroad, conduct of a dialect in many medical colleges and universities, former boss of a Pakistan Medical Association, chairperson of a charge force on women development, chairperson of a women health cabinet Punjab and former supervision bureau holder.
NA-120 valid Pakistan’s age-old problem of ‘parchi’ system. Nepotism won once again, while meritocracy died a delayed death. And afterwards a voters, a laymen yell about because zero ever happens on consequence in a country. The by-poll stands as a sheer thoughtfulness of the choices that make — rather mangle in this box — the future.
Ramsha Jhangir
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 20th, 2017.
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