Eventually, following the “program of the choice” of the anti-MQM parties, the Elections Commission of Pakistan has issued the notification of delimitations of certain constituencies in Karachi. MQM not only had been opposing it from the day one such an illogical demand was raised by its political rivals, but also terming it as an intrigue to rob its vote bank.
As soon as this demand was put before the court, MQM has been proving it unconstitutional, illegal and unfair by referring to the pertinent clauses of the constitution, prevailing laws and with the help of the logics and the ground reality. In this context, it also pleaded its case in the court not only in the Supreme Court, but also in the EC. However, despite all of the concreteness and relevancy in the MQM`s stand point, the SC ordered for the delimitation, and constituently, the Election Commission issued the notification accordingly.
Personally speaking, MQM`s stance clearly explain why the delimitations cannot be made only in Karachi. In contrast to it, neither the SC verdict nor the Election Commission`s notification could explain how the delimitations could be made without the census and especially against the consent of the people and the elected representatives of the concerned constituencies.
The elections Commission gave the argument that since majority of the political parties (i.e., 15 out of 16) had been agreed to it, it decided to go for delimitation in Karachi. The question is, why did the Election Commission consider only the number of parties for making such a decision by ignoring the number of votes and the resulting seats? Traditionally, the EC has been giving importance to the number of votes and seats won by the political parties while making such important decisions, then, why did it adopt a different rule in this case
If, for instance, the EC has set a new criterion which, in its opinion, is most suited and pertinent for the country and its people, then will it follow the same self-fabricated principle to declare the winner of the upcoming elections 2013? Will it really consider the number of parties instead of the number of votes and the seats won by the political parties? If out of about 200 participating parties, only one party gets the most number of seats in the elections of 2013, will it invite the remaining 199 parties to form government as greater number of the parties are in the majority and ignore the winning party as it is in minority? I am sure it would not! Then why has it adopted an illogical, undemocratic, unconstitutional and illegal criterion for Karachi against MQM?
The most important argument in the favor of the delimitations in Karachi was that due to the migration of the people from KPK, Punjab, Baluchistan and interior Sindh, the demography of Karachi has charged altogether. If this is really true, then is it not surprising that due to the migration of the millions of people to from outside Karachi, the politics of the biggest city of the country has significantly changed, but there were no demographic changes in the local politics of the relatively small cities and towns from where the heavy migration has taken place? Should there be no delimitations in those constituencies from where hundreds of thousands of people have migrated to Karachi? Will it be not logical to demand for house-to-house verification of the voters` list there? Should it not be brought to light that which political/religious parties have been utilizing the votes of the migrants in those cities?
Unfortunately, none of the anti-MQM parties ever raised such a demand for their own cities from where the hundreds of thousands of people migrated to Karachi despite the fact that both the cases were interlinked with each other. This double standard again reveals that these parties are not working for the benefits of the people who have migrated to Karachi, rather they just want to dent MQM and its voters. However, as in the past, they will again fail in their evil intrigues against Karachi….Insha Allah
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