Most horrifying aspect
However, the strongest defence that feudalism enjoys
is the personality worship by people of their leaders that amounts to idol
worship of pre-Islamic days. A tribal consider sardar next of God. The common
man is devoted to one or the other political leader as his demi-god, a deity if
the leader is a female and an infallible spiritual mentor for whom he is
prepared to lay down his life. It matters little for him whether his leader
while in power looted the country with both hand, was responsible for its break
up or he purposely kept the population uneducated and backward. The feudal has
completely appropriated his patriotism for the country, love for the nation,
respect of the society for his own person. This one is feudalism’s most
formidable defence behind which it flourishes unabated and cannot be broken
through unless some revolutionary steps are taken to convert people’s
personality-oriented loyalties to nation-related concerns.The fact is that
Pakistan was created for the common man and not for the feudal lord who
hijacked it at its very inception. He is a usurper. But can he be dislodged to
establish peoples’ hegemony? Perhaps not, because no counter-force exists to
eradicate the evil. The system is deep rooted in time, tradition and custom. It
could have been eroded through education and economic development over a period
of time but that has been effectively blocked by the feudals. The only
alternative now is a surgical operation in the form of a revolution. A highly
initiated and motivated leader should emerge with absolute command over
country’s power structure and full confidence of the masses to accomplish the
task and turn the country into a truly democratic state. Precedent exists.
General Park of Korea seized power in 1963, abolished feudalism forthwith and
his country that was far behind Pakistan at that time took phenomenal strides
of progress in every field of life and within a decade was far ahead of
Pakistan. Around the same period of recent history the Association of South
East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a poverty-ridden bunch of small countries,
abolished feudalism, made their nations 100 per cent literate and rose to
become highly developed nations of the world. A vision of peaceful, prosperous
and progressive Pakistan cannot be conceived unless the root cause of all evils
i.e. feudalism is eliminated. The difficulty, however, is how to slay this
Frankenstein. So long as the awaited leader does not appear on the national
scene the nation cannot afford to sit back doing nothing. The mission could be
taken up by a group of people who sincerely wish to get Pakistan out of the
state of chaos in which it has languished, ever-since independence. This group
of committed people should have a clear vision of the revolution they wish to
bring about so that it takes the form a movement on a national scale. The
mighty thrust of this great movement will cut off the tentacles of feudalism
and establish the desired system to usher in era of a peaceful, prosperous and
progressive Pakistan. Copies of the plan should be printed in millions and
distributed on widest possible scale to create nation-wide awareness and ensure
people’s maximum exposure to it. Details of the system are:
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