Thursday, March 25, 2010

Pakistan, women and politics


If we scan through the socio-cultural and political landscape of the sub-continent it is almost the same. In the political front, we can see that at some point in the political history of these countries.

These women leaders are not ordinary leaders, each of them has a grand legacy behind them and a mass following, believing their ideologies and promises. Millions of ordinary women follow these leaders and hope that they will be able to address and understand their problems, which man leaders could not. But the biggest irony is that, they were not able to address those issues and seen to fall back into those bandwagon of being deaf and mute leaders whose only issue is to control their vote banks. They are observed to go to the extent of propagating and patronizing those extremist view points so that they do not hurt the sentiments of so called - propagators of extremist views to be sure of being reelected.

Ultimately we see that those women leaders – who were supposed to be the harbinger of change and hope for millions of ordinary women… as just another ordinary political leader with false promises.

SOURCE: www.iknowpolitics.org

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