12:15 AM
US A MA
Finally the echo of Waheeda Shah’s slap has settled down. Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has disqualified her for two years and has declared the election null and void. This land mark verdict of E.C.P was not against Waheeda Shah only; it has slapped the whole feudal system in Pakistan.
Indeed Waheeda Shah is a ‘vaderan’ and
her very illicit act shows that. I could still have goose bumps when I
watch her slapping the two female presiding officers. It could have been
any one’s mother, wife, sister or daughter. Is the common man or a poor
is destitute of mercy from all these hi profile politicians or feudalism. Though justice prevailed in the end, but it was only due to
media. Media has over played the issue that has shocked the entire
nation. We usually complain about media that it exaggerates the issues,
but I would say it is only the exaggeration of media, that has brought
the justice in power. Either it is Sialkot incident, or killing of a
youth at the hands of rangers in Karachi, both were given justice
because media were hauling the system over the coals. So we should be
thank full to media, at least they have brought the justice to the lower
class to some extent.
If any of such incidents would have
happened a decade ago, when there was no private media. Could we even
think of any justice that time? Just imagine if Waheeda Shah would have
slapped the two ladies in the absence of media, would they have got
justice? If media had not over played the issue, would the higher
authorities have even bothered to take any action against the culprit?
It has all happened due to media. But the question arises, is it only
the media that has been the cause justice, to the lower class and will
things always remain the same? We need to enforce such legislation that
directly brings the all the politicians and feudalistic under the trial.
It should not be the pressure of media that brings justice to the middle
class; it should be the spirit of the authorities to make the all
citizen accountable for their actions.
It is twenty first century and we are
in dire need of eliminating this feudal mind set from our society. It’s
not only the Waheeda Shah case, each day numerous such cases happen in
interior Sindh and Punjab. Why such feudal are given free hand from
the law enforcement agencies? Isn’t the law of Pakistan applicable on
them? Are all the laws only for middle class and poor ones? The very
simple reason for all these is that, we vote these feudal in
elections and elect them as our parliamentarian representatives? We are
the one who bring them in power. Most of the candidates of P.P.P and
P.M.L-N are feudal and if such mind set have been given the authority
by our votes, how could we accept the change in our society? All in all
the drop scene of Waheeda shah’s case is the victory of justice and
tight slap on the feudal mind set, but this justice should prevail in
the society with same zeal.
