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No more dictators: Pakistani daily
"...a sentiment is resonating in the country for the establishment of a solid democratic order free of dictators and their cohorts among politicians," said an editorial in the Dawn on Wednesday, a day when Nawaz Sharif is all set to become the Prime Minister for the third time.
Pakistan has had a turbulent history, suffering long spells of military rule. The last of its military strongmen was General Pervez Musharraf who returned to the country after four years of exile and was arrested for various cases.
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai, in his speech in the National Assembly, on Monday urged political parties to forever shut their doors for those who have betrayed democracy.
The underlying desire in parliament is for the politicians to be allowed to run the state affairs- a job for which they have been elected by the people and are ultimately accountable to the electorate.
"...the sentiment itself should reassure Pakistanis. Betrayed frequently, they will need to be constantly told that the change towards democracy is for real and permanent," said the daily.
The editorial observed that this call for respect and supremacy of the popular mandate is "as much a celebration of the positives that Pakistan has finally been exposed to as it is a warning to old interventionists and their easy allies among the politicians".
It went on to say that the "voices against dictators and their accomplices did make a few uncomfortable in a house that was full of people who had supported' Pervez Musharraf.
"Responses to the idea will vary from party to party, from the treasury to the opposition, from those who made compromises in the past to those who must continue to make them now. Consensus will take time and it is the closing of the gaps between various positions that will determine the distance that Pakistani democracy has covered so far."
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