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As soon as the date of general elections is announced, all the political parties have started giving level playing field decades, but the tragedy is that just as the world does not agree on the definition of extremism and terrorism, so our political parties have their own level playing field. Appreciating.
The level playing field was defined in the Cambridge dictionary as "A situation in which everyone has the same chance of succeeding" creating situations and opportunities in which everyone has an equal chance of success. According to this definition, if we look at elections in Pakistan, level playing field means that all small and large parties have equal opportunities to contest elections and campaign.
Lest bombs explode in ANP rallies like in the past, but religious parties and PTI become the cradle of militants. Or else, like the 2018 elections, the leadership of Muslim League (N) is in jail and PTI is in jail. Due to the undecided cases against the leadership of The most important requirement for a level playing field is that the Election Commission should be completely independent and independent. The army, secret agencies, police and administration should not be biased towards any party in the election. The Election Commission should be supreme over all of them. The media should be completely free.
Lest the military agencies twist the arms of the media and use it in favor of one party and against the other like in 2018 and the intervention of the ISPR is to the extent that after the election, the DG ISPR is on the victory of one party. He should issue a tweet saying "Watazmin Tasha Wa Tazil Min Tasha". For a level playing field, it is necessary that the impartiality of the Election Commission and above all the independence of the judiciary as well as the complete independence of the media. Do not use money.
No one should be forced to vote for or against someone by force of wealth or gun. Do not use religious cards. Every voter shall be free to cast his vote in favor of the candidate of his choice. Then on the polling day, every voter should be free to go to the polling station and cast their vote without fear, and it should not happen that the polling agents are forced out at gunpoint like the so-called elections of 2018 in favor of the party of their choice. . It seems that only by ensuring clean, transparent and impartial elections under the empowered and independent Election Commission, such elections can be held in which everyone can get a level playing field. But is this possible?
The biggest tragedy is that even our major political parties do not agree on the definition of level playing field. PTI has its own definition, Non-Legis has its own, People's Party has its own, ANP and MQM has its own and religious parties have their own. In the previous elections, Non-League, ANP, MQM and JUI were giving maximum decade of level playing field, but PTI was complaining about not having a level playing field. Now she is giving the maximum decade but what she means is that her leaders are undoubtedly involved in serious crimes but her leader and other leaders should be released or those who are out of fear of arrest should also be released. should be allowed to participate in the elections, but on the other hand, the party has yet to apologize for the 2018 rigging and the crime of ending the level playing field for its opponents at the behest of the army, nor has it admitted that it will win the election this year. The army and its agencies rigged the pre- and post-polls and that their assemblies were fake.
However, before demanding a level playing field, ethics requires that its leadership confess to the crime that not only its political rivals were thrown out by the judiciary before the last elections, but also by sitting the RTS after the polls. Stops were also placed in favor of the candidates. Similarly, the electables of other parties were blackmailed to join PTI in the same way as the electables of PTI are being done now.
MQM and other regional parties have their own definition of level playing field. It is also a fact that these parties have not been given a level playing field for many years and everyone knows that in the last elections, the right of MQM was taken away and given to PTI. If she does, it means that she should not be treated with hostility by the establishment like in the past and she should be freed from the oppression of the People's Party.
ANP has been a target of terrorism in the last two or three elections, while on the other hand, PTI was and is not under any such threat. When she calls for a level playing field, she means creating an environment in which she can campaign as freely as other parties. Balochistan's nationalist parties complain of establishment interference, not for or against the PTI but in the "broader interest of the nation". By level playing field, they mean that it End the intervention.
The definition of PPP's level playing field is different. She wants it to become the darling of the establishment like PTI was in the last elections and have complete freedom to use money. The level playing field definition of PML-N is most unique. She says that in 2018, by using judiciary, media and NAB, power was taken away from her and given to PTI. She thinks that the level playing field will be that PTI should be treated the same way as was done to the Non-League before the last elections and the same favors should be given to the Non-League that were done to the PTI. Seen in this context, the first requirement is that the All Parties Conference blocker level playing field should be unanimously defined.
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