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00:00The year is 2024.
00:03The upheavals of Pakistani politics.
00:08The downfall of Pakistani politics.
00:12Elections, demonstrations, protests and negotiations.
00:18Cases, bailouts, arrests and punishments.
00:23What happened? How did it happen?
00:25Events and effects.
00:27Comments and comments.
00:31The day this case was brought to the Supreme Court,
00:34everyone was aware of the outcome of this case.
00:38Basically, it benefited Noor League, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari.
00:46It was decided that we won't let them fight the elections.
00:50So they took the bullet.
00:51The Supreme Court and Pakistan snatched the bullet.
00:54This is wrong.
00:56It was an unexpectedly unexpected decision for PTI.
01:01Pakistan's history shows that when a person is in jail,
01:05his vote bank increases.
01:09There are many important cases and they were handled in a foolish manner.
01:14Their grassroot level of popularity,
01:17instead of having a negative effect on it,
01:21we saw that it had a positive effect.
01:25Advertisements were printed in the newspapers.
01:28But what happened, happened.
01:30In my opinion, this was a wrong strategy.
01:342024 was a proper robbery.
01:37It is very clear who they want to bring.
01:43Mr. Shahbaz said one night before the elections,
01:46that if Noor League gets a clear majority,
01:49then Nawaz Sharif will become the Prime Minister or not.
01:51All of us sat on it and wondered what it meant.
01:54I saw that Trump has come.
01:57When he came to office for the first time,
02:01he put his family, his daughter, his son, his son-in-law in high positions.
02:09Everyone knew what happened to Mr. Bhutto was a judicial murder.
02:13Only the Supreme Court found out.
02:15What was Mr. Bhutto's benefit after the judgment?
02:17Many judges of the court wanted to go with acceptance.
02:24They were leaning towards acceptance.
02:28The controversial role of the Election Commission of Pakistan,
02:32there is no question about it now.
02:35This decision is a black mark on the Supreme Court's forehead.
02:39The government and the Election Commission
02:42are vehemently against the law and the constitution.
02:46January 2024
03:14The Supreme Court abolished the ban on political parties
03:18to contest elections on charges of criminal offences.
03:23There is no such thing in the world,
03:26that as a result of any punishment,
03:29the political parties are banished from the electoral process forever.
03:32Article 62.1.F of our constitution,
03:35which states that any person,
03:38in order to become a member of parliament,
03:40must have no judgment,
03:44no court,
03:46no tribunal,
03:48that has declared him a liar.
03:52The day this case was brought to the Supreme Court,
03:55everyone knew what the verdict would be,
03:59and who would benefit from it.
04:01The verdicts that come from the court,
04:04are not based on the law,
04:07or how the judge sees it,
04:08or the arguments of a lawyer.
04:12The verdicts come because there is something going on in politics.
04:16Many cases in Pakistan are based on politics.
04:22For that time,
04:25a specific politician is banished from the political process.
04:29Basically, Nooli, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari benefited from this.
04:34And this created an atmosphere that their government is coming.
04:37And this was decided during the time of Qazi Faiz Esa Sahib.
04:43And from that time, the winds of change began to blow clearly.
04:48That country came back only when there was a change in the court,
04:52and Qazi Faiz Esa Sahib became the Chief Justice,
04:54and then whatever happened after that,
04:56that is a part of our history.
04:58January 2024
05:01PTI lost the case in the Supreme Court.
05:04The sign of the baton was taken back.
05:05PTI challenged the ruling of the Peshawar High Court to take back the election sign in the Supreme Court.
05:12From the beginning of this year, it was clearly seen that
05:16to stop a single political party,
05:19a whole system is involved.
05:21Different organs of the system are involved.
05:24In that, you take judicial decisions,
05:27you take political decisions related to them.
05:30An effort was seen to keep one party out of the system.
05:33In a way, an action replay was also seen.
05:36Even before this, we had seen a whole system against a single party.
05:41I think Mr. Khan's problem is more than political advice.
05:45We have seen many times that legal advice is also of very poor quality.
05:49This baton was not given to the intraparty election by Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf.
05:54When an intraparty election is not done by a party, it has a consequence.
05:58That consequence is that the party cannot get a uniform symbol.
06:01Everyone knows that the intraparty election was a sham.
06:06It was an army.
06:08In Punjabi, I can say that it was like dusting the earth with a broom.
06:14It was just to fill a void.
06:19When the Election Commission filled the papers and was completing the file,
06:24that you get the election done, you get it done in a way,
06:27then everyone took it very casually.
06:28First, they were in the government, so obviously they did not care.
06:32Then when the circumstances changed, even after that, that trick did not change.
06:36They mishandled the Election Commission.
06:39To say that the Election Commission is biased, I am telling you myself that the Election Commission is biased.
06:44When you know that an institution is headed by a controversial person,
06:48who is also biased, then do not present things in a plate.
06:51Now, even for Tariq-e-Insaf at that time, because the leadership was completely spread,
06:56the experienced politicians who had experience in politics were out of this process.
07:05The leadership of Tariq-e-Insaf was in the hands of lawyers.
07:10At that time, the politicians were on the sidelines.
07:12Some were running away, some were in jails, some had left politics.
07:15But we can only blame the PTI for this.
07:18Because Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf knew very well
07:20that they have to get elections done under the constitution of the party.
07:28Not fake elections.
07:30There was a lot of setback.
07:32But the way we saw the reaction of Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf,
07:39I think eventually they benefited from this.
07:42It was thought that if there was one electoral sign,
07:46then people would know that they have to vote on a TV or a radio.
07:51So many electoral signs that people do not even know what the electoral sign of our candidate is.
08:12Amit Raza's group agreed to ally with the Sunni Unity Council.
08:19The situation was created where it was clearly seen that
08:24this group, Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf, will not be allowed to participate in the elections.
08:30Now they were looking for different ways.
08:33On the one hand, the PTI was trying to figure out what to do to get the best representation in the parliament.
08:37On the other hand, they were trying to figure out what to do to get the best representation in the parliament.
08:45First they were going to the Sunni Unity Council, then to the Sunni Unity Council.
08:50There was an episode of PTI Nazriyati.
08:53In reality, all these efforts were part of one action.
08:56How to keep a parliamentary group out of the system or the parliament.
09:01First it was a PTI Nazriyati.
09:04Then came the press conference.
09:05Everything was revealed to the public.
09:09Then they started going to the different signs.
09:13Ultimately, this was the result.
09:15All the decisions, like withdrawing the sign,
09:20and then banning them from allying with any other party,
09:26apparently caused a lot of damage.
09:29All the candidates in the whole country
09:32were given different signs.
09:37But the reaction that we saw,
09:42especially the voter supporters,
09:46if they were sitting comfortably,
09:48they said, because you are doing injustice to us,
09:51we will respond to this.
09:54The sign that you have withdrawn,
09:57the candidates of the party will get those signs,
10:00who will be supported by the party.
10:03So we will spread it everywhere.
10:06Mr. Imran Khan was not harmed in any way.
10:08Because the situation and his statements,
10:11he spoke with his head held high.
10:14Now they make statements,
10:16that we were given the signs of pumpkin, eggplant, slipper, shoe.
10:20But the responsibility of all this is the justice of Pakistan itself.
10:23If they had elected the elections in a good way for their party.
10:27But despite this, the PTI got good seats,
10:31got good numbers in the parliament.
10:33But they have not been able to get out of the shock of being given back the sign of pumpkin.
10:40The comeback that they have made in the elections,
10:43what a wonder, it was fun to see this fight.
10:56In the crime of disclosing political secrets,
10:59Judge Abul Hasnath Zulkarnain was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
11:03Imran Khan and his wife, Mushra Bibi,
11:06were sentenced to 14 years in prison and a fine of Rs. 10 lakh,
11:09by Judge Mohammad Basheer,
11:11for falsely accusing them.
11:16There are very important cases,
11:19and they have been handled in a foolish manner,
11:21and punishments have been given in a cruel manner.
11:23Its fundamental purpose was to disappoint the voters in a way,
11:27and the government's statement was that now they have been punished,
11:30no one will vote for them.
11:32These punishments, which Mushra Bibi was specially punished for,
11:35which we saw in the case of Iddat,
11:39and Imran Khan benefitted from Khan's punishments.
11:43In fact, I would say that those who made the Iddat case,
11:46punished Imran Khan before the elections,
11:48by fast-tracking, a lot of cases were punished together.
11:51They helped the PTI.
11:53The history of Pakistan shows that,
11:55when a person is in jail, his vote bank increases.
11:59The support that Imran Khan has on the ground,
12:02and the level of cleanliness that can be seen and felt,
12:05I don't think that any decision of the case,
12:08will have any effect on Imran Khan's vote bank,
12:10or on his support.
12:12All the supporters and voters of Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaab,
12:16had no effect on them,
12:17and neither did they consider Imran Khan to be guilty,
12:20in the case of cipher, or in the case of a false accusation.
12:23Their popularity at the grassroots level,
12:26instead of having a negative effect on it,
12:30we saw that it had a positive effect on them.
12:33And in their popularity, you can call it a cult,
12:36you can call it blind following, you can call it whatever you want,
12:39but their popularity increased after these punishments.
12:43February 2024
12:46Two days before the elections,
12:49an advertisement was published in all the newspapers,
12:51on behalf of the Noon League.
12:53The headline of which was,
12:55that Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister,
12:57has announced his decision.
12:59We were publishing the elections,
13:02and our eyebrows were raised,
13:04when one night before the elections,
13:06an interview of Mr. Shahbaz Sharif came out.
13:08Before this, Pakistan Muslim League,
13:10was advertising Mr. Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister.
13:12In Pakistan's big newspapers,
13:13the headline was,
13:16that Pakistan's next Prime Minister is Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif.
13:19One night before the elections,
13:21Mr. Shahbaz Sharif said,
13:23that if the Noon League gets a clear majority,
13:25then Nawaz Sharif will become the Prime Minister,
13:27or else he won't.
13:29All of us sat on this and wondered, what does this mean?
13:31The voter connect with PMLN,
13:33is mostly of Mian Nawaz Sharif.
13:35And if you remove Mian Nawaz Sharif,
13:37then there is no party,
13:39no one exists.
13:41So, for the voter connect,
13:42this was used as a ploy,
13:45that Mian Nawaz Sharif,
13:47as he is a voter connect,
13:49and when he feels,
13:51that Mian Nawaz Sharif is a candidate for PMLN,
13:53then the voter will come out,
13:55and the voter of PMLN who is disgruntled,
13:57will also come out and vote.
13:59It was over confidence,
14:01and in my opinion,
14:03this was a wrong strategy,
14:05not only of Muslim League Noon,
14:07but as a journalist,
14:09I would also like to question
14:10the journalism standard,
14:13that when you are putting a paid content,
14:15in big newspapers,
14:17on the front page of Pakistan,
14:19then you should write on it,
14:21that this is the paid content.
14:23Many people had this suspicion,
14:25that Nawaz Sharif has come back,
14:27Nawaz Sharif is also leading
14:29his party's election campaign,
14:31but maybe he won't be able to become PM.
14:34Nawaz Sharif never intended
14:36to become PM.
14:38These people,
14:39in their election campaign,
14:42maybe they were cheated,
14:44or lied to,
14:46that the next PM of this country
14:48will be Nawaz Sharif.
14:50When he landed on 21st October,
14:52in Lahore,
14:54that's when they started
14:56putting slogans of PM Nawaz Sharif.
14:58The Muslim League Nawaz,
15:00is still a big political party,
15:02it's government is in Wafaaq,
15:04in Punjab,
15:06and in Balochistan,
15:07and their slogans are not shameful.
15:10If Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
15:12had been PM,
15:14then the Noon League would not have
15:16been able to run the government
15:18on the basis of the unity of the parties.
15:20The affairs of the Noon League
15:22would not have been good,
15:24and the affairs of the Noon League
15:26would not have been good.
15:28So if the start of the Noon League
15:30was a surprise,
15:32I think it was a blessing in disguise.
15:34The way the results
15:35of the Noon League were announced,
15:38the party understood
15:40that their wish,
15:42which was self-confident,
15:44or their wrong assessment,
15:46was thrown into the air
15:48that very night.
15:50Why couldn't Nawaz Sharif
15:52become PM?
15:54Because I had told him
15:56that I wanted two-thirds,
15:58and I didn't get two-thirds.
16:00So I told Shahbaz Sharif
16:02that I wanted two-thirds,
16:04and I didn't get two-thirds.
16:05So I am nominating him.
16:07I also know that even before this,
16:09even before 2018,
16:11if he had not been eligible,
16:13the Noon League people had told me
16:15that Mr. Mian's health
16:17does not give him the opportunity
16:19to run the government.
16:21He himself did not become PM
16:23because he knew that his own seat
16:25was clearly Yasmin Rashid's winning seat.
16:36The general election of Pakistan.
16:39Voters voted for the election
16:41of the 16th National Assembly.
16:43At the same time,
16:45there was a vote for all four
16:47provincial assemblies.
16:49The results of the 2024 election
16:51were unexpected to a large extent.
16:53There was also a lot of upset.
16:55From that day, the fight
16:57between Form 45 and Form 47
16:59has emerged.
17:01What happened in this election?
17:03After setting up the whole game,
17:04I thought that
17:06there was no need to do anything
17:08now.
17:09Maybe I shouldn't do much
17:11on the day of the election.
17:13Very effectively,
17:15the electoral signs of every
17:17independent person,
17:19he was telling a lot of people
17:21very well.
17:22If anyone knew,
17:24there is no bat, there is a duck,
17:26but he knew about the duck.
17:28It was extremely surprising for me
17:30how people found and
17:32voted for their candidates.
17:33I thought that
17:35people will work so hard.
17:37The internet is closed.
17:39People worked hard and
17:41voted for their people.
17:43So they did not read the cards
17:45right.
17:46And they thought that
17:48this is not the 1990s.
17:50This is a very connected
17:52environment now.
17:54When the news started coming,
17:56the politicians who were
17:58fighting the election,
18:00they started telling that
18:01the election has been recovered
18:04and we were not allowed
18:06to sit in the count.
18:08And everyone realized
18:10that something was going to happen.
18:12If you took 8 votes,
18:14everything was reversed in 9 and 10.
18:16But it had to be done very nakedly.
18:18That night, the role of the
18:20election commission,
18:22the way the systems were
18:24shut down,
18:25then when the contradictions
18:27between form 45 and 47 were seen,
18:29and if the election commission
18:31did not have an answer,
18:33then the election cannot be
18:35called a non-contradictory election.
18:37Where there was oppression
18:39with the constitution,
18:41with the law,
18:43with the democracy,
18:45on the other hand,
18:47we saw democracy in people.
18:49We saw their will that
18:51we have to bring change
18:53through vote.
18:55In Pakistan's 75 year history,
18:57we cannot say that
18:59there was a non-contradictory election.
19:01There were always small
19:03fights.
19:05In 2013,
19:07I do not go too far back,
19:09it was said that this is
19:11an ROK election.
19:13In 2018, it was called
19:15Selected Prime Minister.
19:17In 2024,
19:19they say that more spices
19:21were added.
19:23But we saw that
19:25not only the signs of
19:27a non-contradictory election
19:29could be declared,
19:31the 8th February election
19:33was no exception.
19:35The previous election
19:37was also no exception.
19:39This time,
19:41since PTI was an accepted
19:43group, they did not
19:45believe it at all.
19:47They were pointing fingers
19:49at every election
19:51since the 2013 election.
19:53That is why you see
19:54that this election
19:56was either a fraud
19:58or a fraud.
20:00Wasn't it in 2018?
20:02The kind of fraud
20:04that took place
20:06in that election
20:08is in front of us.
20:10So, if you look at it
20:12at any level,
20:14you cannot say that
20:16it was a 100% transparent election.
20:18Just like in the past
20:20elections,
20:22can we conduct elections
20:24in a transparent
20:26and better way?
20:28I think we can say this
20:30before every election.
20:32We said the same thing
20:34in this election.
20:36The Election Commission
20:38will have to remove
20:40its weaknesses and shortcomings.
20:42Only then can the
20:44public's confidence
20:46in the elections
20:48increase.
20:50Mr. Issaq Dar
20:52said a few days ago
20:54that we are talking
20:56about the 2024 election.
20:58We had reservations
21:00in 2018.
21:02We will give you
21:04the 2024 mandate.
21:06You can talk about
21:08the past as much
21:10as you want,
21:12but if the agenda
21:14is not about
21:16how to improve
21:18the elections,
21:20the election commission
21:22will be powerful.
21:24What are the conditions
21:26for that?
21:28If the elections
21:30are not good,
21:32the next election
21:34will be the same.
21:36In Pakistan,
21:38we should try to
21:40keep the election process
21:42as transparent as possible.
21:44Unfortunately,
21:45we will lose.
21:47One will say
21:49that they have won,
21:51and the other
21:53will say that
21:55they have lost.
22:10I don't think
22:12there is a better
22:14Prime Minister
22:16in the world.
22:18He gives credit
22:20for everything,
22:22and the institutions
22:24are happy with him.
22:26Whatever work
22:28is done in the country,
22:30he distributes the credit.
22:32I think that
22:34Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
22:36was the best choice
22:38at that time.
22:40In America,
22:41the people of Pakistan
22:43put their daughters,
22:45sons, and sons-in-law
22:47in high positions.
22:49In America,
22:51decency prevails
22:53in politics.
22:55Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
22:57led the coalition
22:59in the way
23:01the PDM government
23:03did.
23:05It was effective
23:07to lead
23:0913 parties
23:11in the coalition.
23:13Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
23:15led the coalition
23:17in the way
23:19the PDM government
23:21did.
23:23Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
23:25is proving himself
23:27to be a better PM.
23:29Whenever he comes
23:31to power,
23:33he starts
23:35fighting
23:37with the establishment.
23:40We cannot expect
23:42that Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
23:44will fight
23:46with the establishment.
23:50Pakistan Muslim League
23:52should have made
23:54Mr. Shahbaz Sharif
23:56the Chief Minister
23:58of Punjab.
24:00I think
24:02this selection
24:04by the PM
24:06is a good decision.
24:10February, 2024
24:12Mariam Nawaz
24:14became the first woman
24:16in the history of Punjab and Pakistan.
24:19Mariam Nawaz
24:21is the Prime Minister
24:23of the whole province.
24:25Mariam Nawaz Sharif
24:27started as the Prime Minister
24:29of Punjab.
24:31She was a little shy.
24:33She was having
24:35a hard time
24:36when she came to power.
24:38She understood the country
24:40and the government.
24:42She has shown
24:44her capabilities.
24:46I feel good
24:48about her.
24:50She is trying
24:52to do something.
24:54I respect Mariam Nawaz's
24:56journey to this extent.
24:58She won the war
25:00of inheritance
25:02with her brothers.
25:04She made her place
25:06in a place
25:08where there were no women.
25:10Was this the choice
25:12of the people of Punjab?
25:14Was this the choice
25:16of the people of Punjab?
25:18If the answer is yes,
25:20then this is the only choice.
25:22There was no other choice.
25:24If the answer is no,
25:26then this is not
25:28a good choice.
25:30Politics should be based
25:32on merit
25:34and not politics.
25:36It is strange
25:38that the old political parties
25:40like the Pakistan People's Party
25:42and the Noon League
25:44still give freedom
25:46to the people
25:48of their families.
25:50Were there no more
25:52educated people in the Noon League?
25:54Why was Mariam Nawaz
25:56elected?
25:58I am a woman.
26:00Whenever a woman
26:01plays an important role,
26:03it is a good thing.
26:05Everyone should understand
26:07one thing.
26:09The politics of the 90s
26:11will not work.
26:13The development
26:15alone will not be
26:17the deciding factor.
26:23Our opinion is that
26:25the late Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
26:27did not get a fair trial
26:29and it was not in accordance
26:31with the constitution
26:33requirement of due process.
26:50This is a travesty
26:52of justice.
26:54It is said that
26:56justice delayed
26:58is justice denied.
27:00Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
27:02was martyred
27:04and many decades passed.
27:06If the court
27:08gives a verdict,
27:10we can say
27:12that a mistake
27:14was rectified
27:16but too little,
27:18too late.
27:20Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
27:22was martyred
27:24and this will
27:26continue to be
27:27a tragedy.
27:57Our agencies
27:59and institutions
28:01openly criticize
28:03past mistakes
28:05and crimes
28:07but they do not
28:09pay attention
28:11to what is happening
28:13in the present.
28:15It has been a long time
28:17but despite this,
28:19it was a historical mistake
28:21and the Supreme Court
28:23of Pakistan corrected it.
28:25Such mistakes
28:27do not affect
28:29today's politics
28:31or today's people.
28:33The purpose of the Supreme Court
28:35and all the courts
28:37and the constitution
28:39is to stand
28:41as a shield
28:43and not to correct
28:45the past.
28:47This was the worst
28:49decision of its kind
28:51when you hanged
28:52Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
28:54to death.
28:56It was an open secret.
28:58A person cannot return
29:00but when history
29:02is written,
29:04after this date,
29:06after 6th March,
29:08when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
29:10will be mentioned,
29:12it will not end
29:14with a verdict
29:16and Bhutto hanged.
29:18The person who wrote
29:20this verdict
29:22should be ashamed
29:24and not proud of it.
29:26History corrected itself
29:28and despite the delay,
29:30it is correcting itself.
29:32March 2024
29:34The trustee
29:36has approved
29:38an inquiry commission.
29:40This case was highlighted
29:42because just like
29:44the court has a history
29:46of bad decisions,
29:47the court has a history
29:49of bad decisions.
29:51This happened recently
29:53and it still happens
29:55and the past
29:57is no exception.
29:59This was a unique case
30:01when 6 sitting judges
30:03of a court
30:05wrote the case
30:07and told the history
30:09that this happened
30:11with this person
30:13and this happened
30:15with that person
30:17and that case
30:19is now in the court.
30:21Unfortunately,
30:23this committee
30:25was also one of the committees
30:27and you are talking
30:29about the beginning of the year
30:31and we are sitting
30:33in the end of the year
30:35and the results
30:37did not come.
30:39I think that
30:41this case
30:43was a unique case
30:45where there was
30:47in Islamabad, in the capital, and he is explaining the events that took place with him.
30:57In Pakistan, from the very beginning, there is acceptance and acceptance.
31:05We associate acceptance with the state.
31:09Who accepts the state and who does not.
31:12Sometimes they accept what is acceptable, sometimes they don't.
31:16Faiz Issa Qazi has mishandled this.
31:20And in your opinion, the judges who have to give justice, they are asking for justice.
31:27This time, these six judges complained.
31:30And did it in writing.
31:32So, they had complained in the era of Umar Atta Bandyal.
31:37A letter was written at that time, when an impression was gaining strength
31:41that the courts are facilitating the PTI and PTI ban.
31:45And these are all the judges, six out of six, who were kept
31:50during the four and a half year period of PTI.
31:55It was unprecedented in Pakistan that six judges
31:59first complain to their Chief Justice, Amir Farooq,
32:03and then they write a letter to the Supreme Court.
32:06This has never happened before.
32:09If they read the letter, it is a very emotional incident.
32:14How they were surveilled, how cameras were installed in their bedrooms,
32:20and how they were threatened.
32:24They have also given references to various cases.
32:28So, if this had happened in any country,
32:33it would have been as highlighted as it was in Pakistan.
32:37And in my opinion, this will always be known as an extraordinary incident.
32:44They wrote a letter to Faiz-e-Saqazi.
32:47Faiz-e-Saqazi sent it to the government.
32:52However, the executive himself is a part of it.
32:55Therefore, this matter has been mishandled.
32:58But, in that letter, he could not identify
33:02which person had called us from which day and which number.
33:05There was no such allegation.
33:07The government also made a commission at that time.
33:10But even then, some people said that their intention is not to go further.
33:15But, what we saw later is that it has been pending in the courts for a long time.
33:21No result has come out of it.
33:24Now that the 26th amendment has been implemented,
33:27there is a strong impression
33:31that the letter written by the six judges will have some precedence.
33:37We do not say that there was no interference before this.
33:40Before this, there was a martial law.
33:42But, this highlight happened because it became public.
33:45And when this letter became public and was made by the six distinguished judges,
33:50it assumed a very serious dimension.
33:53Therefore, it was an important turn.
33:56As we say that every day, a red line crosses in this era.
34:01So, only one red line crossed, which is still happening.
34:04Many judges of the court wanted to go with acceptance.
34:10Their bow was towards acceptance.
34:12So, acceptance threw them aside.
34:14I think that either the Supreme Court will endorse that
34:19the grounds of this letter are true.
34:24And will give such a decision that there will be no interference in the future.
34:28Or, they will call this letter baseless and call it null and void.
34:32There are only two choices.
34:34It seems that the Supreme Court will surely issue such an order
34:39that the path of interference will be stopped in the future.
34:42Will it be stopped or not? It is difficult to say.
34:55The special seats of PTI and Sunni Ijtihad Council
34:58were distributed by the Election Commission among other parties.
35:01Later, the Peshawar High Court also rejected the PTI request.
35:07The controversial role of the Election Commission of Pakistan.
35:11There is no question about it now.
35:13There is no doubt about it now.
35:17The decision made by the Election Commission,
35:20read the Article 51 of the Constitution.
35:23In the name of the explanation of Article 51,
35:27the arrangement made by the Supreme Court of Pakistan is extremely unfortunate.
35:32This decision of the special seats is a black mark on the Supreme Court's forehead.
35:38It was necessary that if you want to run this government,
35:42which the powerful powers had already decided,
35:46then this was also a part of it.
35:48In my opinion, the Election Commission went overboard in this decision.
35:52Okay, to this extent, I will definitely say that
35:55the petitions of the PTI or Sunni Ijtihad Council in the Supreme Court
36:01were eventually rejected.
36:04For the first time, we are seeing in the history of Pakistan,
36:07perhaps in the history of any democratic society in the world,
36:10where the majority judges of the country's largest court
36:13give a decision but there is no action on it.
36:16Look, the role of the Election Commission is very controversial.
36:19And in that, these people are not questioning
36:22why the PTI had to fight for freedom of expression.
36:26And then we saw that the Supreme Court had also addressed that issue.
36:30So if this had not happened,
36:31the Supreme Court's decision would have come in favor of the Election Commission.
36:34So I think the role of the Election Commission
36:36is very big in complicating the situation of Pakistan.
36:40Look, when Article 51 says that the political party
36:43who has taken part in the election as a political party,
36:47then the special seats will be divided among them.
36:50So how can the Supreme Court amend it in the name of Tashriq?
36:54The decision of the Election Commission,
36:57I think very soon people's decision came on it.
37:03Usually when such decisions are made by our courts or our institutions,
37:08then history decides on it, people decide on it.
37:12100% against the law and the Constitution.
37:16And the Election Commission has become a political party.
37:19There has been a lot of injustice in this country.
37:22And the big benches of the Supreme Court said
37:26that the real work of the Election Commission,
37:30including the Chief Election Commissioner,
37:32they had to have free, fair, impartial,
37:34free and acceptable elections.
37:40They have failed badly in this.
37:44The Supreme Court of Pakistan also said that
37:46this decision was wrong by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
37:49But legally, I have only one political point on it,
37:54that who were these people?
37:56All these MNAs or MPs,
37:59which community did they belong to?
38:01Which leader did they vote for?
38:04He is Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf or he is Imran Khan.
38:07So when the name of Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf,
38:09the candidate of Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf,
38:11the name of Imran Khan,
38:13then obviously these special seats should go to the same community,
38:16the same leader.
38:18But the Election Commission did not make this decision.
38:20So these special seats have such an interesting issue.
38:24There is such a community,
38:26which has decided on the mandate of another community.
38:34And they want to take it from them.
38:36So the Government and the Election Commission,
38:38are deliberately violating the law and the constitution.
38:44What is not written in the constitution,
38:46the Supreme Court has been reforming it in the name of justification.
38:50So what was the fundamental purpose of this 26th amendment?
38:55The Supreme Court of Pakistan encroached on the Parliament,
39:00and the Parliament reclaimed it.
39:02The 26th amendment.
39:04In the beginning of the year,
39:06the way Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf,
39:08was trying to keep it out of Aiwan,
39:12this was the process.
39:14On this decision,
39:16and especially when the Supreme Court of Pakistan,
39:18later said that the Election Commission of Pakistan,
39:20should not have done this.
39:22Even though the Supreme Court of Pakistan,
39:24does not become an exception by saying this.
39:26But this was also a part of the efforts,
39:28that in Aiwan,
39:30Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf should not get a special number.
39:32If the same people,
39:34would have been in the PTI opposition parties,
39:36till the end of the year,
39:38then they would have got two thirds of Aiwan.
39:40Then they could have made changes in the constitution,
39:42and for that change,
39:44they would not have had to do all that they had to do.
39:46Is this decision right or wrong?
39:48To say it right,
39:50seems very difficult.
39:52Because again,
39:54if anything is seen as a result of this,
39:56that a specific person,
39:58or a party,
40:00it is difficult to support them,
40:02even if they are against any party.
40:04Yesterday they were against some other party,
40:06that was wrong,
40:08and today they are against some other party,
40:10that is also wrong.
40:12The court has been a puppet from the beginning.
40:14This time they tried to show their eyes.
40:16In my opinion,
40:18the problem of Jamaat-e-Islami is that,
40:20Jamaat-e-Islami does not have,
40:22the capacity of politics.
40:26Look,
40:28Mr. Imran Khan,
40:30I think he is going towards practical politics.
40:32He knows where the center of power is.
40:36There are videos,
40:38in which they are saying,
40:40let's go to GHQ,
40:42let's go to Jinnah House,
40:44let's go to Court Commander House.
40:469th way is a big political mistake of Pakistan.
40:48If anyone is involved,
40:50in its planning,
40:52in its execution,
40:54the incidents that have happened,
40:56then in this country,
40:58there is only one power to make decisions.
41:02Every year,
41:04there is a sugar scandal in this country.
41:06Why?
41:08Either there are mill owners in the parliament,
41:10or there are sugarcane growers.
41:12There is a big misfortune in our country,
41:14that the one who has a deal,
41:16then the deal is made.
41:22Now PTI is saying,
41:24we are innocent, we are oppressed,
41:26we are innocent,
41:28those who have been harmed, they do not believe.
41:32This is basically,
41:34to cover up the corruption,
41:36this was included in the election act.
41:38Those are the people who decide,
41:40who will rule.
41:42Those are the people who decide,
41:44who will come in, who will go out.
41:46Who wants to go to jail,
41:48who wants to go to the Prime Minister's house.
41:50The Prime Minister used to say on Pakistan Television interview,
41:52that we should do it,
41:54we do it everywhere in the world,
41:56because they have to see it,
41:58so this is a very good thing.
42:00Without building an institution of accountability,
42:02it will be impossible to make a corruption-free Pakistan.