00:00 the break. We are going to talk about the election of the political parties. Musarrat Qadeem is with us. Thank you for joining us.
00:11 Musarrat, unfortunately, all political parties in Pakistan are the symbol of democracy and the instrument of democracy. But when we look at the internal situation, we do not see democracy in any party.
00:25 The elections of Pakistan Muslim League Noon in 2023 saw Shahbaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, Hassan Iqbal, Atta Tarar, Mohammad Istaqdar and Maryam Aurangzeb winning unopposed.
00:39 Fazlur Rehman was re-elected as the Chief of the JUI for five years. In 2023, he was also unopposed. In addition, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was also elected. He was also unopposed and won.
00:52 We only see an Islamic community that has a system under which elections are held, elections are held, competitions are held. Why do these liberal or centric communities not let democracy flourish in themselves?
01:13 This is a very difficult question. We promote that we are a democratic party or we are trying for democracy. We have a struggle, we have a big contribution.
01:27 But we do not promote democracy within the party. We have a saying that these are family limited parties where the unity of their democracy is only family.
01:45 People come out of that and run a whole process. Some are becoming presidents and some are becoming general secretaries.
01:55 But the law does not do everything by saying that the law should be made and democratic parties should elect within themselves. In fact, the parties themselves should adopt democratic practices.
02:15 The workers who are at different levels, the people who have a lot of contribution, they are not seen anywhere in the whole process of election. You said it yourself. I think it is the fault of the party structure.
02:30 You said that we see the family-oriented parties within the parties themselves. But today, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's intra-party elections were held. We saw that this was not a family-limited party.
02:43 At least, at the face of it, they said that we are not a family-limited party. We reject the same politics and such things will not happen in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
02:51 But then we see that there is a person who is completely under the banner and formally announces to take seats temporarily.
03:03 So, these are the parties that are running from the family, not in that. We see this kind of party too. Where did we go wrong?
03:11 I think that until you see the election in a complete context, until your election is not verified, its procedure is not observed in a way,
03:29 I think that we will continue to have intra-party elections with problems in this way. Those who are challenged are removed from the party.
03:42 If someone contests that I also want to contest in this election, he is also challenged from somewhere else and he is also removed.
03:52 So, this is a political culture that we have formed where we keep accepting that we have to do what our leader says.
04:02 But, Musaadat Sahiba, the next technical question is that this whole matter will be about the election commission of Pakistan.
04:09 Do you think that the election commission of Pakistan will accept this and the banner will really remain with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf?
