What do they think in Pakistan?

When we want to see what people really think of their country’s leadership, there are plenty of people who can provide an opinion the comes from those who actually live in the country. While this party may not represent everyone, they do represent a reasonable section of that country’s population:
Communist Workers & Peasants Party
Pakistan


Tuesday, August 24, 2004
"Murderous Civilization ! "
By Hussain Ahmed
While the General of the Rogue Pakistan Army smokes cigars in his arm chair in the President House and the former Citibank Bank man packs his bags to move in to Prime Minister House, the weak and oppressed of this country continue to be dishonoured, pillaged and plundered. Not concerned with the abysmal set of social patriarchal relations in Pakistan, the duo running the show do not want to disturb the status quo. The question really is: has any Pakistani government in the past tried to change this socio-political order. No prizes to answer that question. The vanguards of the capitalist and feudal system existing in this country make the rules here, dictating to us the absolute necessity of maintaining the antiquated set of relations in this country, claiming to protect us from the adulteration of Western values and modernization. And yet the government of this country cannot even protect its own female councillor from wretched stripping by a gang of perverted imbeciles, who it seems cannot be harmed either by the local government or the representative parliamentarians of Nowshera district. So much for "devolution of power", "empowerment at grass root level", "good governance", "haqiqi jamhooreeyat" (real democracy) that has been touted by the ideologists of "Development". One thought that Mukhtaran Bibi's case was enough to ruffle anyone, let alone the "man of honour" that the General claims he is. Yet, out comes Councillor Kulsoom Bibi to relate her plight! All of us are responsible for the predicament Kulsoom Bibi and many like her find themselves in. Can we give them answers? Can we overturn their torturous and painful experiences? This state, its ideology, its founders, its leaders stand disgracefully naked in front of the images of the women who have been dishonoured this way. Our silence will mean our complicity in the violations of women's fundamental rights. Fight Patriarchy !
"So many deeds cry out to be done, And always urgently; The world rolls on, Time presses. Ten thousand years are too long, Seize the day, seize the hour!"
~ Mao Tse-Tung 1963.
In Solidarity, Hussain (For a detailed discussion of the Marxist position on women, please refer to Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm)


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