Disclosures about Mehrangate scandal are horrible like the ones revealed by the one-time Mehran Bank chief, Yunus Habib, that expose the dirty game played hand in glove by agencies' superiors and some politicians whose combined aim was ensuring the ouster of Pakistan People's Party from national politics. Or, plainly speaking, to show the door to Benazir Bhutto Shaheed's government.
What negative impression is being formed in the minds of the masses that constitute the electoral college for general election? What then can one expect the outcome of next general election which don't now appear to be a remote possibility? Observers from almost all walks of life who are not only confined to media alone and who have been watching the political scene since those days with an analytical approach, are even otherwise well aware of the stealthy moves undertaken by some agency top guys and power-hungry politicians to 'create' IJI (Islami Jamhoori Ittehad).
Federal Information Minister, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, has very well described the situation and likened the self-opinionated CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif with someone who oversteps his limits to hit the popularly elected head of state (President Asif Ali Zardari) below the belt in sheer disregard for the latter's stature that the Constitution has conferred on him (the President).
All this is disgusting despite the fact that that is a bygone story of the remote past. If the past has been so much chequered, then it makes us believe that the very edifice of our establishment-sponsored politics has wreaked havoc on the common man's right to elect representatives to run the public affairs. It is not only corruption but political dacoity as well that aims at usurping the masses' fundamental adult suffrage right and depriving them of the levers of accountability.
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