Politics of vengeance, a rouÂtine practice in Pakistan, once again received legal validation, leaving a stain on the country’s political image. No matter if you like or dislike, support or oppose; wrong stands wrong at any cost. The episode premiered yesterday in which the symbol of the ‘bat’ was snatched from PTI, was agÂgrieving. Such a shock to a politÂical party merely 25 days before elections is a setback, weakening, all in all, the democracy. It’s an inalienable right of every person or political party to contest elecÂtions without any impediment. Producing such hurdles makes the elections seriously rigged even before their conduct, and that raises eyebrows throughout the world, thus upsetting the alÂready stricken politics of PakiÂstan. This needs to be stopped; a complete check on vengeful poliÂtics remains the only way out and way forward for political stabiliÂty. To recapitulate, whatever unÂfolded yesterday in the Supreme Court was nothing but a political melodrama, which is condemned.
ALI MUHAMMAD KHAN
SUKKUR