Editorial

Dr. Busharat Elahi Jamil – Assistant Editor

The recent general elections were historically a continuation of a saga of electoral fraud, wherein the Pakistani people’s mandate was stolen and the nation was used from 1947 to form 47.

Elections were held on February 8, 2024; they were not rigged, but it was the first time that the Pakistani people had seen electoral engineering in action. The sole distinction is that it was made visible by the actions of a specific political party and an unanticipated large-scale public outcry.

For the first time in its history, the country is on one page, but its political grasp is split into two distinct forms, 45 and 47. These are now not just forms, but also the beginning of a political consciousness and the end of a particular type of authoritarianism.

The election results also show who is fighting for national interests and who is standing up for the constitution, but Pakistan has shown itself to be the nation’s ally.

Additionally, the results of the February election demonstrated that the Pakistani establishment is a subset of the global establishment and that the political mafia used their services to gain influence in Pakistani politics. It has also been demonstrated that the local establishment is more powerful than the democratic desire of 250 million Pakistanis.

Only the so-called establishment has the power to decide a country’s destiny; the nation itself, the judiciary, and democratic institutions cannot. This is known as controlled democracy, which primarily benefited a few elite classes to administer the Pakistani state’s system in accordance with their own goals.

Institutions such as the judiciary, election commission, police, and the so-called media, among others, have equal responsibility and made every effort to subvert democratic and electoral conventions. This further demonstrates that the PDM-2 is not the genuine voice of the Pakistani people.

Furthermore, the travesty of an election that delivered only a tyrannical government—rather than a representative government—left the country in the hands of the mafia, who bears the real responsibility for getting it to this point.

The real election results coincided with Imran Khan’s return home, proving that elections are really a numbers game. Even if it was a political activity, its application for individualized or unique goals set off the country’s democratic forces, especially the masses.

Prior to and during the election results of 2024, Pakistanis have demonstrated that they will no longer support anti-democratic elements and will instead use their legitimate politicians to embellish their country.