Most horrifying aspect of the feudalism

However, the strongest defence that feudalism enjoys is the personality worship by the people their leaders that amounts to idol worship of pre-Islamic days. A tribal considers his sardar next of God. The common man is devoted to one or the other political leader as his demigod, 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 disregarded 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.