reconciliation that has no comparable example in contemporary political history. Zardari’s reconciliation has been with criminals, plunderers, extortionists, political blackmailers, mafias and the corrupt of the corrupt in police, bureaucracy and lower levels of judiciary.
Normal straight politics is based on ideals, goals, manifestos, future plans for the betterment of the people, the institutions, the country, solving burning issues. But all this never figured in the reconciliation politics of Mr Zardari.
He reconciled his misdeeds with Musharraf through NRO, then reconciled and forgave all anti-people and anti-national elements in other parties, gangs, mafias and organisations and ruled with impunity, having disabled all mechanism that could check his free run from within the system.
Thus for eight years Zardari’s reconciliation produced a vacuum in politics, of governance and accountability, which was gradually filled in by non-political forces to the point that Apex Committees and joint army-politicians task forces and JITs were created. That was Zardari’s admission of guilt and declaration of failure of his reconciliation policy.
Now it is time for accounting for the wrong committed. There should be no more reconciliation with any criminal, any mafia or any political sponsor of these mafias.It is now for Mr Zardari, or if he is taken down, Mr Bilawal, his sisters and other somewhat cleaner PPP leaders like Raza Rabbani, Sherry Rehman, Qamar Zaman Kaira and others, to sit down, think and come up with a new PPP doctrine.They should bury reconciliation, stop covering up loot and plunder, think about some honest public service and let the people decide.
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