Pakistan: TERRORIST ATTACK ON POLITICAL PROCESS

After long, the Awami National Party made an attempt to strengthen the on-going political process by organizing a public meeting in Kuchlak to mobilize public opinion ahead of the election process. Since it was a democratic party and got the right to approach the people to win over their support for its political programme. Enemies of the democratic forces and democratic polity obstructed this political process by attacking the public meeting with a time device killing nine people and injuring 22 others, including the Provincial ANP President and his wife, also a known political activist. A least known militant outfit claiming to be Lashkar Mujahideen-i-Islam had carried out the bomb attack killing and wounding score of political workers and activists. ANP had been the victim of terrorism in KPK and a serious suicide attack was made on party President only for not being a fanatic or not believing in fascist ideology. A strong section of Pakistani establishment hates the politics of liberalism, Baloch, Pakhtun and Sindhi nationalism, or Pakistani nationalism or patriotism and support the fascists and fanatic elements who are given a free hand to hold huge public rallies, public meetings in any part of Pakistan. The DPC meetings and rallies in all parts of Pakistan are a proved that the establishment is still supporting Jihadi elements and allowing Tsunami Khan to hold meetings and rallies anywhere in Pakistan as their politics suits the establishment and opposed to PPP, ANP and PML-N. All those political forces not supporting the Afghan Jihad are subject to terrorist attacks. It is the clear message conveyed to the political forces by bombing the ANP meeting. We believe that the bomb attack on the ANP public meeting is nothing but a terrorist attack on the political process in Balochistan and elsewhere disallowing the liberal and nationalist forces to play their destined role in Balochistan. On the contrary, religious, fanatics and obscurantist elements are allowed to do politics, retain their national and provincial assembly seats for more than a decade and others are not allowed to contact their own political constituents as it was disapproved by the establishment for strategic reasons. Such a policy will harm Pakistan, not benefit the country, it is our considered opinion and there must be a change in state policy by allowing the political forces to take the driving seat in the Pakistani administration and sending all the anti-democratic forces to take the back seat. Let’s politicians or men from representative democracy rule this country. The public servants merely should obey the orders from elected representatives governing Pakistan.