The schedule of the general elections has been released and the political parties have accelerated their preparations for it but the political nominated and independent senators of the same political parties have jointly passed a resolution to postpone the elections.
Every democratic minded citizen has been dealt a blow and a debate has erupted in the national and local media. Observers say that when this resolution was being presented, why it was not opposed by the political parties and because the majority of the political parties were absent from the Senate of one hundred members house, which made the members an opportunity to pass that resolution.
Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan has submitted a resolution against the said resolution in the Senate for face saving. However no one knows when the meeting of the senate will be held but these political parties knew about the said resolution to be passed but despite of that, the political parties turned a blind eye to it to postpone the elections.
Therefore, after the resolution was passed in the senate an application was filed for contempt of court proceedings against the chairman of the senate and the members. A lawyer filed a petition in the Supreme Court against those who did it. Petitioner lawyer Ishtiaq Ahmed has said that the resolution passed in the Senate falls under the category of contempt of court, and contempt of court action should be taken against the chairman of the Senate and the members.
A resolution against it cannot be passed. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmed has submitted a resolution to the Senate Secretariat against the resolution passed by the Senate yesterday to postpone the election. Senator Mushtaq Ahmad said that this resolution is unconstitutional. Senate of Pakistan cannot pass such a resolution which is against the constitution. Conducting of the election is a constitutional requirement which is the responsibility of the caretaker government and the Election Commission besides the decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has come in this regard.
So now the elections cannot be stopped by these tactics. Mushtaq Ahmed has said in the resolution that February 8 the postponement of the election is unconstitutional under the guise of the law and order situation and the severity of the weather. I condemn this resolution and the resolution against it has been submitted in the Senate of Pakistan.
The caretaker government and non-democratic forces are running away from the election. All the benefits of the postponement of the election will be given to the non-democratic forces. In an event, Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa has also said that earlier the same political parties had appealed that the general elections should be held on time but now such a resolution has been passed by the Senate. In other words he has also said that it is not necessary that everyone agrees with the decision of the court, but justice should be seen.
This is the reason why the democrats have pinned their hopes on CJ to play his role as before, so that there is no delay in the general elections. In this regard the experts and observers who keep an eye on the country’s politics say that the more the general elections are prolonged, the more problems will arise for the country.
If lasting peace is to be established in the country and its economy is to be improved, then it is necessary to allow successive political governments to work so they should pressurize to work for the country. If the political regimes continue to be run like this and the elections continue to be delayed, then this system will continue to falter in the same way.
