Political scenario in Pakistan is clouded by allegations and counter allegations, Mr. Chaudhary of PML (Q) has alleged that suicide bomb explosions on Muhtarima Benazir Bhutto’s Caravan was her own planned act, Muhtarima has termed Mr. Chaudhary as insane politician who is blaming her for his own doings, she has mentioned name of Mr. Chaudhary as main accused of bomb attack on her Caravan while registering a first information report in a police station of Karachi. Analysts are of the opinion that after suicide bomb attack on her Caravan, government has imposed ban on political meetings, to hide empty vote bank of ruling PML (Q), due to which ruling party can not hold such big public meetings as Muhtarima Benazir Bhutto did it in Karachi on 18th of October 2007, while mentioning suicide bomb attack on Indian Prime Minister Mr. Rajive Gandhi in which he was killed, the analyst have said that no ban on political and religious gatherings was imposed in India.
In USA election campaign is mostly confined to big halls and is mostly run in a very nice way, in India and Pakistan leaders bring out public on open spaces and on roads to show their strength, mostly civil bureaucracy and feudal help politician by pushing people to participate in public meetings, very few people participate in public meetings willingly. Nasty tactics like attacks on rival political leaders, use of dirty tactics to harass public meeting participants like throwing snakes on the crowd or opening water tabs to spread water on the ground where public is compelled to sit and hear the emotional outbursts, false promises and rhetoric of demagogues are common. In big cities where politics is commercialized now professional participants and slogan shouters are paid for their time by political parties.
Due to climatic conditions people in subcontinent are quite emotional, election campaign is mostly dominated by regional sentiments when a leader of specific region is campaigning within his or her own region, when the same leader campaigns in other provinces of Pakistan nationalistic and anti India rhetoric in Pakistan are common tactics to befool public and to gain votes. Eventually due to wide spread presence of demagogues on national political scene most often Pakistan Army emerge finally as victorious when demagogues fail to deliver to the public which they promise during election campaign, final victory always awaits Pakistan Army.
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Abdur Raziq