The federation will further weaken if the elected and democratic government of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is thrown out of power this time, said a political analyst and writer Dr Ayub Sheikh while talking to this news agency. The assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto cast negative impact on federation and if this time the efforts aimed at toppling the PPP government are made these would result in political fallout across the country particularly in Sindh province.
He said all stakeholders and institutions of the state including judiciary and media should come forward for protecting the fragile system in order to pull the country out of current situation. Dr Sheikh said South Korea had undergone similar situation in 60s and early 70s when one of its presidents was waiting to be executed while capital punishment had already been awarded to another.
But in South Korea, all political leadership was later released and all the stakeholders including army, political parties and judiciary had to sit together to evolve consensus when state crisis remained unresolved and they avoided to take any suicidal step. They gave priority to democracy and Korea is in front of us today. He stressed the need of working together on single point agenda of protecting and safeguarding the country. "We cannot afford further experiments," he emphasised.
He said although BBC has hinted that a Justice Party is emerging in Pakistan but such an experiment had badly failed in Bangladesh. Dr Ayub said that in Bangladesh, political leadership was kept out of socio-political affairs and decision making process and two ex-prime ministers were kept in jail for two years. However, after two years of failed experiment, the justice party had to retreat and it handed over power back to political forces.
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