The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced that from the coming Senate elections which is expected to take place in March 2012, anyone having dual nationality, will be disqualified to contest elections in Pakistan.
There are very good reasons for such a regulation. Citizenship is usually conferred upon newcomers by making them to take an oath or a pledge that they will serve the country's interest which is about to confer its citizenship. Now in today's globalised world, dual citizenship will bring the holder into a moral dilemma which interest to serve when there is a clash of interest between the two countries the citizenship of whom he is holding.
Though the UK is the former colonial master of Pakistan, responsible for the millions of dead and displaced during partition and though the US since the fifties has been interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs while trampling upon its sovereignty, Pakistani for one reason or the other, prefer to hold exactly the citizenship of these two countries. A clash of interest is, therefore, inevitable. While the regulation announced by the EC is, therefore, much in the interest of the country, its effect will depend on its implementation which is usually an entirely different matter in Pakistani practice.
One more thing I suggest, law should be made to disqualify all those who have accounts and properties in Swiss, US and European safe havens, this money of ours that is not taxed in our country but is rather used by the banks to finance wars against Islam and Pakistan.
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