..............we need more Pakistanis like yourself and I wish you do not lose the motivation to wanting a more just and ethical Pakistani society which is free of corruption, and tribalism. We need to educate our people, so they can learn to reason for themselves, rather then having the mullahs reason for them, turning them into mindless bots who think they have divine authority over women, so do not feel ashamed when they commit violence against women; from acid attacks to gang-rapes and honour-killings. .............
Vice President, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Dr Shireen Mazari, on Monday reacted sharply to Fatima Bhutto's 'baseless' tirade against party's Chief Imran Khan, saying PTI leadership never "cosied up" to dictators."If she (Fatima Bhutto) does not want to join PTI, it is her choice but she needs to correct her record regarding PTI leadership," Mazari said while talking to Business Recorder on Monday. She said that Fatima Bhutto was not well-aware of the ground realities and she needed to correct her factual inaccuracies.
Bhutto while rejecting the rumours to join PTI had accused Imran Khan of defending the legacy of former dictator General Zia-ul-Haq, who came to power in the late 1970s after overthrowing Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Fatima's grandfather and the founder of the country's ruling Pakistan People's Party.
Speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Fatima Bhutto also referred to Imran Khan's support for a 2002 referendum of General Pervez Musharraf (Retd). "PTI leadership has been saddened to see the baseless tirade from Fatima Bhutto against Chairman Imran Khan," said Mazari in a rejoinder to Bhutto's criticism of the party's leadership.
"We all respect and admire the spirit of empathy present in young Fatima Bhutto's writings, but she is still ill-informed about the realities prevailing in the country as she has not yet spent enough time here," she added. She further said that "what little time she has spent has been highly supervised with limited exposure; and that is understandable given the tragedies she has faced in her formative years.
Not only was she estranged from her birth mother but lost her father, who was her hero and her pillar of strength, in such a brutal and untimely manner." Mazari added that having come to know Murtaza Bhutto and admire him for his commitment to rescue his father's legacy from the destruction being wrought upon it by Asif Zardari it is difficult to critique his young and talented daughter, but she does need to correct her factual inaccuracies.
According to Dr Mazari, Imran Khan has never "cosied up" to dictators. During the black days of Zia, Imran Khan was still playing cricket for Pakistan.
His support for Musharraf's referendum was a mistake for which he had publicly apologised - something very few of our leaders are inclined to do.
His apology also saw him suffer Musharraf's wrath which led to his incarceration in the D G Khan jail known to be amongst the worst in the country. The reference to the bill supporting rape victims was also placed out of context because the Opposition at the time was combined against the excesses of the then PPP government and it was not a question of Imran Khan opposing any measure aimed at supporting women, especially those suffering abuse.
Fatima Bhutto really needs to understand the history of Pakistan more comprehensively rather than through populist slogans only. As Dr Mazari pointed out, it is the PTI that has placed Justice at the core of its political ideology as reflected in the name of the Party itself. And Justice can only be perceived to have been delivered if the most oppressed in society - the women and dispossessed - are delivered Insaf.
So far PTI is the only Party, which has made the deliverance of justice at the grassroots level the central pillar of its ideology. As a woman "I am convinced that PTI will give justice and equality to all in this country and that includes women," she added
"Again, Ms Bhutto needs to get over this romance with "secularism" which effectively is bandied about but if one looks at so-called "secular" democracies, the religious undertones can be seen quite clearly.
Even in the so-called "mother of all democracies", the UK, religion becomes central because the Head of State is also the Head of the Church of England!,"
she added. Imran Khan's vision of an Islamic welfare state is very clear and in form akin to the welfare state prevailing in the Nordic countries. Mazari referred to Khan's view who stated: "Our vision is of a welfare state where the state takes responsibility for providing all its citizens with equal access to health, education, justice, employment and security.
By definition it will be Islamic in terms of public morality and because we will ensure that no law is repugnant to Islam. This is in keeping with the Objectives Resolution which has been endorsed by every elected parliament of Pakistan. This vision is also totally compatible with Jinnah's commitment to an Islamic welfare state and his Presidential address on August 11, 1947 to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan where he was not denying his commitment to a modern Islamic state but was simply stating that all citizens would be equal citizens before the law."
Dr Mazari felt Ms Bhutto would also do well to study the Misaq-e-Madina, as well as the religious overtones present in the laws of so-called "secular" states."Indeed as she is growing up, perhaps she can move beyond writings and speeches to actually returning to Pakistan and working for the welfare of the people she claims to be empathising with from the comfort of a five-star celebrity life abroad," Mazari said.
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