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"Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong; they are the ones to attain felicity".
(surah Al-Imran,ayat-104)
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Full Name: Dr. Maqsood Jafri
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Two Types of Love and Politics
By:  Dr. Maqsood Jafri  New York

Love and politics have two types. Love is either true or false. When  a
lover hankers after lust  and bodily pleasures, it is untrue and  ostentatious
display of love. The real love is beyond all sensuous and esoteric 
propensities. The bodies die and decay but the true love neither dies nor  decays.
Browning in a poem says that he has grown old but the color of his tears  is
the same that was in youth time. Love is a passion. Love is eternal.  Lust
is temporary. It is an appetite. Love is spirit and love is instinct. Both 
are real and essential but are polls apart. Similarly, politics is also of
two  types. The politics of conviction and the politics of convenience. The 
ideologically dedicated people die but do not betray their conviction. Once a
man stifles with his conviction, then he finds no conviction to stifle
with. The  power politics swings around the pillars of pollution. Such
political rogues  have no faith in the betterment of the country or nation. They
only do politics  to attain their personal goals and agenda. They change
parties. In the words of  William Shakespeare, the true love does not alter when
it finds alteration. But  these conscienceless politicians seek alteration
even before alteration. On the  other hand, there are people who kiss the
noose and scaffold with bravery and  sacrifice their lives for conviction.

It is very tragic that in  Pakistan, we have feudal political system.
Nowadays,  it is rapidly being  replaced by the capitalist political system. The
money is ruling over the mind.  The illiterate ruffians are in power while
the intellectuals have no place in  the ruling junta. Now some modern ladies,
who are mostly non-conformists, have  found place in the assemblies. It is
a welcoming step but the genuine political  and educated ladies are ignored
and the sweet hearts are promoted by all  political parties. The sincere and
genuine workers are mostly ignored. If I name  the sweet hearts of
different political parties who are occupying the seats of  assemblies, it will be a
long list. More over, being a former professor and  responsible writer, it
does not suit me to unmask the pretty faces of the  ladies before the world.
I respect the womenfolk and only aspire the genuine  ladies to be
accommodated in politics. As we have some hereditary seats in our  assemblies, after
winning the seats from their constituencies, they join the  government and
get ministries. They are the scum of politics. We must rise and  revolt. The
feudal system has to be weeded out. Pakistan can never have  political,
economic and social stability, until and unless, it severs the branch  on which
the owls are sitting. We have horse trading that has been converted  into
donkey trading. These political mercenaries change the loyalties and jump  to
join the ruling ranks.


Let us understand the concept of the politics of conviction and the 
politics of convenience by an example.  Senator Jehangir Bader is the best 
example of the politics of conviction. When he was a university student, he 
joined the PPP. During the dictatorial regime of General Zia-ul- Haq, when so 
many heavy weights betrayed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, he bravely chanted the
slogan:"  Long live Bhutto."  He was jailed, flogged and tortured. He did not
leave  the party and stood like an unshakable rock before the torrents of time.
On the  other side, Shah Mehmoud Ahmed Querashi was the member of the
Majlis-e- Shoora  of General Zia-ul-Haq. His father was the governor of the Punjab
province  appointed by General Zia-ul-Haq. This family was in the Muslim
League. When he  sensed the political emergence of the PPP, he joined the PPP.
He was the  provincial minister and then the federal minister in the
governments of the PPP.  In the end of 2007, he was invited in a restaurant by the
PPP,USA New York to  preside over a political meeting. I was one of the
speakers. After the function,  we dined together. He was told by a senior
office bearer  of the PPP that  Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto had a lot of respect for
me. I seconded the opinion and  told him that I was writing a boot titled"
The Ideals of Bhutto" on the sweet  wish of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. As I was
sitting next to him at the dinner  table, I whispered in his years that he
could be the best candidate for  premiership from the province of the
Punjab. He was very happy on my proposal  and asked me to put this idea before
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. I have no  intention to derelict his position or
degrade or undermine him. It was his  political right to aspire for that
position. He was made the foreign minister  and delivered well. But on the
reshuffling of the ministries, he should have not  reacted and honored the party
decision and should have maintained party  discipline. His leaving the PPP shows
his moral laxity and non-conformist  attitude. Now he has left the party
and is seeking refuge for his political  career. Whether he joins PML(N) or
Tehreek-e-Insaaf, it is his choice but he has  become the example of the
politics of convenience.

I may be permitted to  present myself in the court of my readers. I have no
claims. I hate bragging.  Had I been only a political activist, I would not
have touched this aspect of my  life. But as I am a poet and humble
scholar, I feel it my moral duty  to present myself before history regarding my
political conviction.  Since my youth, I had announced my political commitment
with Bhuttoism. For me  this political philosophy means  the establishment
of democracy, social  justice, moderation and progression. As a writer and
thinker, from the core of  my heart, I have been supporting Bhuttoism. In
1972, when I had just joined  Gordon College, Rawalpindi as a young lecturer of
English, Begum Nusrat Bhutto  asked me to join the government. I thanked her
and preferred the life of a  teacher. During the callous regime of General
Zia-ul-Haq, I condemned martial  law in my speeches and supported Bhuttoism.
As I was a government servant, my  orders of transference were issued. I
was transferred to Bahawalpure.  I  refused to accept the orders and declared
to resign. My dear friend, the federal  minister Mr. Mehmood Ali on his own
got the orders of transfer canceled. The  government of General Zia-ul-Haq
allotted residential plots to forty writers and  poets In Islamabad. Some of
them were not even the author of a pamphlet, what to  say of being the
author of books. I declined to get a plot in Islamabad. In  1992, then the Prime
Minister of Azad Kashmir, Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum,  asked me to join
his government to promote the cause of Kashmir at international  level. I told
him that being a pro-Bhutto, how I can work with him. I pay him  homage for
his large heartedness. He said that he needed my services for the  sacred
cause of Kashmir and there was nothing political involved in the  offer. 
Once, he in a leisure mood told me that some ministers of his  cabinet had
complained against me for helping the PPP workers of Azad Kashmir. I  boldly
accepted the charge by saying:"I help every needy with out any 
discrimination". In 1997, I was made the in charge/ adviser of the Political  Research Cell
of the Pakistan Peoples' Party. On the instructions of the  Chairperson
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, I was asked to sit in the Central  Secretariat of the
PPP in Islamabad.  The present Defense Minister Chaudhry  Ahmed Mukhtar,
then the Secretary General of the PPP and Senator Reza Rabbani  had kindly
received me in the PPP, Secretariat, Islamabad. I used to write for  the party
and send proposal to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto about party matters. She 
considered my proposals with seriousness. In 2005, in a letter addressed to me 
from Dubai, she asked me to write a comprehensive book on the ideology of 
Shaheed Bhutto. In 2007, in New York, once again she reminded me to write the 
book on Bhuttoism. I wrote the book titled" The Ideals of Bhutto" in  2007.
Last month, this book has been re-published by National Book  Foundation,
Islamabad with a special message of President Asif Ali Zardari. It  is
available at the shops of National Book Foundation all over Pakistan and in 
Islamabad market as well. I must declare here, that in the presence of the 
President of the PPP, USA, Mr. Shafqat Tanweer, Mohtarma  Benazir Bhutto  had
acknowledged my life long sincere political and ideological services for the 
party and Bhuttoism. She had also expressed her wish to appoint me ambassador 
or make me her adviser on assuming the government. It is on record  and Mr.
Shaqat Tanweer said it so many times in front of  party affiliates in New
York. I am committed to Bhuttoism and  have never asked for any perk or
portfolio. Am I a man of conviction? This  question bothers me much but with the spiritual satisfaction.

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