Dr Raheeq Abbasi, Secretary General of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, has said
that national progress hinged on the stability and strength of institutions but
the present-day Pakistan presented a deplorable scene whereby personalities had
grown bigger and stronger than the institutions. This state of affairs, he said,
has resulted into disappoint and chaos and the dream of progress and prosperity
has become a pipedream.
Dr Abbasi said that the people were in search of basic necessities of life, while
the ruling elite was content with the status quo, pretending as if nothing was wrong
in the country. There were severe shortage of basic necessities with prices of gasoline
products skyrocketing with every passing day.
Dr Raheeq Abbasi expressed these views while talking to a delegation of MQI Islamabad
led by President Ibrar Raza Advocate, which called on him in his office in Lahore
today.
Dr Abbasi said that those parties which were raising the slogan of change were
actually affirming the status quo by showing their willingness to take part in the
elections under the incumbent electoral system. This political practice, he said,
would further push the country into abyss. He categorically stated that unless the
electoral system was changed, no real change would happen in the country.
Dr Abbasi said that the essence and beauty of democracy lay in people’s authority
to vote their representatives into power, which was not the case as the real power
lay somewhere else and the people were merely tools to give a façade to otherwise
highly questionable process. He asked the people to understand the problem and strive
hard to change the electoral system.
