The struggle for the oppressed is the struggle for human rights
For marginalized Baluch the key to get their rights is separation and freedom from the state. For marginalized Pashtuns and Sindis a genuine federation may ensure their rights. For marginalized Punjabis it is a question of law and its implementation. For many ethnic and religious minorities, struggle for human rights is far more complicated.
Mainstream political parties like PML N and PTI are directly concerned with people’s perceptions in Punjab. PPP is more federalist and sensitive of the national diversity. ANP,MQM, PMAP and other nationalist parties are focused on ethnic lines. Religious parties like JI and JUL are more concerned about the so-called Muslim Umma. Communist parties focus on workers and laborers and their rights.
Then who are supposed to be the oppressors? The religious parties think the so-called Judio-Christian culture and governments of the West are anti-Islam and local power holders are puppets in the hands and therefore, the cause of all miseries. The communists term the same so-called phenomenon as global capitalist imperialism and local elites as their cronies. For Balauchs, a predominantly Punjabi civil and military bureaucracy (called establishment) is subjugating them. PPP, PML N, PTI, ANP, MQM, PMAP and other parties think all problems are rooted in lack of democratic process (though differences are there as what key issues need to be addressed to ensure the true spirit of democracy).
Many regions in Pakistan like FATA, Baluchistan, Chitral, Gilgit Baltistan and rural districts of the country are more marginalized. Smaller ethnic and religious minorities have quite little or negligible political representation. Within a patriarchal society women are almost out of the political process. The diverse society of Pakistan is least sensitive towards the plight of women, child abuse, suppression of religious and linguistic minorities, the poor, the diseased and the physically and mentally disabled.
This is the country that is plagued by post-colonial interventions of the great powers and the influence of Saudi Arabia with its Wahabi terrorist ideology, a country that is ruled by military generals and their puppets and a country that has a feudal class history. Here political structure is hierarchical and those who enjoy naked powers are at the top.
For marginalized Baluch the key to get their rights is separation and freedom from the state. For marginalized Pashtuns and Sindis a genuine federation may ensure their rights. For marginalized Punjabis it is a question of law and its implementation. For many ethnic and religious minorities, struggle for human rights is far more complicated.
Mainstream political parties like PML N and PTI are directly concerned with people’s perceptions in Punjab. PPP is more federalist and sensitive of the national diversity. ANP,MQM, PMAP and other nationalist parties are focused on ethnic lines. Religious parties like JI and JUL are more concerned about the so-called Muslim Umma. Communist parties focus on workers and laborers and their rights.
Then who are supposed to be the oppressors? The religious parties think the so-called Judio-Christian culture and governments of the West are anti-Islam and local power holders are puppets in the hands and therefore, the cause of all miseries. The communists term the same so-called phenomenon as global capitalist imperialism and local elites as their cronies. For Balauchs, a predominantly Punjabi civil and military bureaucracy (called establishment) is subjugating them. PPP, PML N, PTI, ANP, MQM, PMAP and other parties think all problems are rooted in lack of democratic process (though differences are there as what key issues need to be addressed to ensure the true spirit of democracy).
Many regions in Pakistan like FATA, Baluchistan, Chitral, Gilgit Baltistan and rural districts of the country are more marginalized. Smaller ethnic and religious minorities have quite little or negligible political representation. Within a patriarchal society women are almost out of the political process. The diverse society of Pakistan is least sensitive towards the plight of women, child abuse, suppression of religious and linguistic minorities, the poor, the diseased and the physically and mentally disabled.
This is the country that is plagued by post-colonial interventions of the great powers and the influence of Saudi Arabia with its Wahabi terrorist ideology, a country that is ruled by military generals and their puppets and a country that has a feudal class history. Here political structure is hierarchical and those who enjoy naked powers are at the top.
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