THE people of Pakistan have elected a former cricketer to lead Pakistan. Fresh leadership is always welcome. As a non-resident Indian, I say he relationship between India and Pakistan is of great importance, not just to the two nations, but to all those settled outside of the two countries. The three things the new leadership has to watch out for:

Hate only begets hate. So it is important to bring all provinces in Pakistan together.

The focus should be on education. Industrialisation without education is a sure way to fail. Just take a look at how the Middle East is struggling now.

The new administration should also focus on the fair distribution of assets and benefits. Pakistan has a substantial number of intelligent and hardworking professionals. They should all come to together to create wealth not just for themselves but to distribute amongst the less fortunate people. The secret to this is simply to eliminate corruption. Not easy to do, but if leadership succumbs to greed, then they will quickly fall by the wayside.

The people of Pakistan deserve good leadership. Our prayers are that the new team in place now will provide it.

Subbu Murthy
Chino Hills, California

(2)

OUR voters have shown a higher awareness in this election compared to previous ones. This awareness adversely affected the ruling party’s mandate. The voters have condemned corruption. Public money must only be used for national interests, not for personal ones.

Now, the voters’ choice must be respected by all democratic forces as the caretakers and other authorities concerned have held transparent elections. I hope the new PTI government is up to public expectations, and accountability is taken as a prime task and justice served.

The other issues will be speedy recovery of looted money and fixing the economy, besides meaningful improvement in the law and order situation. The protests from some political parties against the credibility of elections could be due to fear of accountability. Khan is expected to go against many things which prevailed in the country earlier.

Khalid Mustafa Advocate
Islamabad

(3)

THIS is with reference to all the promises the politicians made to the public before the election. Since we have the winners now, I think the fulfilment of those promises is the basic right of the public. I hope the selected candidates will try their level best to ensure availability of the necessities and services they promised to provide.

If these MNAs, MPAs, and ministers are unable to uphold their pledges, then the judiciary should question their authority. Those politicians who do not fulfil their promises should be discouraged by the judiciary to take part in future elections.

Faraz Ahmed
Karachi

(4)

THE people have voted for Imran Khan. To state the obvious, all Pakistanis expect him to bring change like — better policing, increasing tax revenues, improving the economy, and most of all providing the common man education, health and employment opportunities at par with developed countries.

The people voted for change which they hope the PTI will deliver irrespective of caste, creed and ethnic background.

Jamaluddin
Karachi

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2018