ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal in a post via his social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook shared a timeline of the country’s in-turn stints with a democratic and martial law governments, Iqbal said, “Pakistan’s history has oscillated between decades of democracy and martial laws following a pattern.”
Our history:
50s Democracy
60s Martial Law
70s Democracy
80s Martial Law
90s Democracy
00s Martial Law
10s… https://t.co/ow3tMx1yHy— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 30, 2017
In his post, Ahsan Iqbal questioned if “we will be able to break the cycle that has kept Pakistan shackled in chequered political ping pong to undermine our development process or follow the dictate of the past?”
The minister hoped that every citizen be in favour of preserving democracy and the cycle of political power games be broken this time to ensure the progression and development of Pakistan as such ping pong games hinder progress and that only a certain few want the opposite of this by stating : except “a troika of failed politicians, disgruntled media anchors, and a few retired servicemen want the opposite”.
He pointed towards a specific lobby and ended with “We can’t compromise on our future and the tide of Rising Pakistan!!!”
