OURS is, was and will be a feudal society which will primarily be predisposed to all things repressive and regressive.

Despite 24/7 political gibberish about democracy, most of the major political parties are governed by family-cult politics: the PPP will be the propriety of the Bhuttos only, the PML-N can only be governed by the Sharifs of the Jaati Umrah, the ANP has Baacha Khan progeny at the helm of affairs, the JUIF has a second generation maulana at the ‘mimbar’, et cetera.

Likewise, our nationalists are no different. So, this means that this monkey business won’t end until the voters did not start taking active part in real democracy. We also must not lose sight of the fact that all developed societies were just like our society before their renaissance.

So, it is about time we started taking things seriously if we are really interested in giving our children a better place to live.

Hafeez Khan Chachar

Jamshoro

Published in Dawn, June 26th, 2017