The major cause of injustice and inequality in Pakistan is Feudalism
Pakistan came into being in 1947 and the purpose of this newly born nation was to openly practice Islamic ideology ,yet that does not mean that Quid-e-azam wanted a strictly extremist Islamic state he did focus on the fact that the minorities have the equal right to practice their religion and beliefs and several approaches of Quid e azam were opposed tooth and nail by Islamic fundamentalists during the division of subcontinent.
After the separation India did its land reform in 1953 and it was a part of Congress’s agenda and hence India became a feudal-free state just after the few years of Independence and after the demise of Quid-e-azam Muslim league was Unfortunately hijacked by Feudalists and the major parties became the feudal parties and the concept of conventional politics overwhelmed in the country and Pakistan became a feudal state where there was a rule of feudalists and because of being in power they could do everything with impunity.
Let’s have a birds eye on the history of these feudal in the subcontinent after razing mughlia state Britain took over the whole subcontinent and dominated it for almost 90 years when they were going to leave this subcontinent they awarded these land properties to the ones who supported them and remained loyal to them during freedom movement and this way the supporters of British rulers became feudal and after the division of subcontinent they hijacked all the political parties and now the major political parties are all feudal parties except the few ones.
This feudal system caused inequality in the society especially in the education sector where there are now different educational standards for different people belonging to different classes elites have O and A level standards and there is Agha Khan board ,Federal board and many other boards and the children of downtrodden poor people study in the schools whose condition is really miserable and the students belonging to lower middle class and poor class have less opportunities to study in the high profile and prestigious educational institutes because of their high expenses.
As feudal are just 2% and 98% people belong to poor class ,lower middle class and upper middle class so these feudal after getting to assemblies never protected the rights of common people and they never let the common people get to assemblies such a system was formed that one needs at least 50 millions just for contesting elections so the rank and files of the country cannot even think of contesting those elections let alone winning them and because of strong feudal dominance in the interior areas of Sindh and Balochistan where people are the bounded labor of these fuedals so they cannot vote for any other one except the feudal they work for and in those areas feudal make their own states and their own laws and they rape the women of poor farmers and they do what they want with impunity under the patronage of Police because they are all in all of those areas and they are also the elected representatives of their areas.
A heavy majority of the members of assemblies fall in this category ,yet there are few parties like who are against this feudal system and conventional politics but the number of non feudal are mite in cheese in the assemblies.
If Pakistanis gird up their lions and set their face against this system so they can not only eradicate this system but also rule of law and a system based on equality can also be possible.
(Written by Shoaib Ahmed Qureshi)
