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- From: hyder@cs.utexas.edu (Syed Irfan Hyder)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
- Subject: Re: Altaf retires
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 14:43:31 -0600
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- In article <1hj0sfINN50m@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> khan@ces.cwru.edu (Mansoor Khan) writes:
- >
- > Altaf's retirement has also proved something else. In Pakistan
- >it is difficult to survive in politics if you are not in the good books
- >of Zamindars/jagirdars or one of them. Do you think people like
-
- I agree with most of your other points, but would like to take
- exception with the above one.
-
- 1: The hold of jagirdaars/zamindaars is at an end. By the end
- of this century more than 50% of our population would be in
- the cities. (There were more than 80% people in the rural areas
- about 25 years ago).
-
- 2: An industrialist's accession to Premiership is an indication of this
- shift. Although many of his leaguers are zamindars, but their
- support for an industrialist instead of a zamindar suports this shift.
-
- 3: It can of course be argued whether the shift will bring a substantial
- change. There will still be corruption, but probably not crude like
- the way of Zaradaris, but rather more sophisticated like that of the
- Keatings!
-
- 4: Altaf Husains decision not to return is a direct indication of
- the different dynamics of a metropolitan areas, where info. gets
- around more quickly, people get around more quickly, so it
- is difficult to hoodwink the people. I think MQM in Karachi
- was very clear that no way Altaf could return.
-
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