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Why Pakistanis need to revolt against military establishment, ISI, and political Islamist forces

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09.12.2024

Since its inception in 1947, Pakistan has struggled to achieve true freedom for its citizens. The promise of independence and self-determination has remained unfulfilled, largely due to the dominance of a corrupt elite, an overbearing military establishment, and the infiltration of political Islamist forces. These elements have collectively transformed Pakistan into a state marred by oppression, economic stagnation, and global isolation. After 77 years of independence, Pakistan is branded not as a land of opportunity but as a “terror-patron nation”. A systemic revolution is essential to free Pakistan from these shackles.

The political history of Pakistan is a narrative of betrayal, corruption, and power struggles. Since partition, the people of Pakistan have been deprived of their rightful share of freedom and resources. The British planned a system that left the common people at the mercy of a power-hungry elite. These elites, willing to sacrifice national interests for personal gains, established a precedent of suppression and exploitation.

The most glaring example of this betrayal was the treatment of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The military and political establishments in West Pakistan, often in collaboration with Islamist forces, first treated people in erstwhile East Pakistan as their mere slaves and continued numerous patterns of repressive acts thus pushing Bengalis to realize – Pakistan, which was created on the basis of an Islamic nation, was actually a tactic of transferring the slavery under British colonial rulers to brute Pakistani elites and military establishment. Things went worse when Muhammad Ali Jinnah attempted to deprive Bengalis from their mother tongue and enforce Urdu as the “only language” for all Pakistanis. This was the time when Bengalis understood, their genuine liberty lies into declaring independence from slavery of Pakistanis.

At the stage, when they began getting organized for freeing from the shackle of oppression and suppression, Rawalpindi (then capital of Pakistan) intensified their cruelty on Bengalis. They started suppressing the democratic aspirations of the Bengali people. The rhetoric of leading the Islamic world served as a facade for their real intentions – to establish control and........

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