In a true parliamentary democracy the political parties are supposed to hold intra-party elections for electing office bearers for various cadres within the party after a fixed period. In our country, more often than not, nominations are made by the party’ leadership on all key cadre posts. Small wonder it is the blue-eyed boys of the leader of the political parties who normally get appointed on key party positions.
Dynastic politics is another common feature in almost all political parties barring, of course, one or two of them. They are not political parties. They are personal fiefdoms of the heads of these political parties who see to it that after their number is up their mantle should pass on to either their son, brother, daughter or son-in-law. It is a family affair. They very cunningly appoint their next of kin as their second-in-command within their political party and thus ensure that reins of their party should remain within the hands of their family. Even many of the so-called religious parties are also dynastic in essence.
Another ridiculous feature our constitution is that the president of the country has been given immunity to appear before the court in case he is involved in any criminal case as long as he occupies his office. We claim to be an Islamic country in which all citizens are equal before the law. Why then this distinction? Every political party claims that it stands for equality among all the citizens of the country but the big question is : Is equality possible as long as economic disparity exists between the rich and the poor? As long as the grown and growing economic cleavage exists between the haves and haves- not , the concept of equality cannot simply be enforced in the country.
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