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| Pakistan People's Party: Sometimes the arrow, sometimes the sword |
The Secretary General of the Pakistan People's Party, Nair Hussain Bukhari, has submitted an application to the Election Commission for the election symbol of a sword, while the Secretary General of the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians, Farhatullah Babar, has submitted an application to the Election Commission for the election symbol of an arrow.
It should be remembered that the Election Commission had on July 1 directed the political parties to submit their application by July 19 for obtaining election symbols, in response to which many political parties approached the Election Commission for allotment of their election symbols. Is.
But it must be coming to your mind that the People's Party participates in the election on the sign of an arrow, so why does it need the sign of a sword?
The article written below was first published on the pages of the BBC on May 30, 2018, when, before the general elections, the Election Commission approved the election symbol of the Pakistan People's Party with a sword and the Pakistan People's Party parliamentarians with the election symbol with an arrow. was given This report is being republished for today.
Just as an army cadet does not get flustered when he receives the 'Sword of Honour', in the same way, Senator Taj Haider, a senior leader of the Pakistan People's Party, is equally happy to receive the election symbol sword.
Senator Taj Haider is one of the most senior leaders of the People's Party. He has been among the core workers of the party.
Pakistan People's Party under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto participated in general elections in 1970 and 1977 on the symbol of sword.
How did the sword sign come about?
Taj Haider says that the name of the founder of the party was Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Zulfiqar was the sword of Hazrat Ali, the fourth caliph, so among the symbols available at that time, the appropriate symbol was the sword. Whenever we made a sign of a sword on our banners and posters, we used to write this verse on it, 'Lafati ila Ali, La Saif ila Zulfikar', but later this sword was used on us.
According to historical references, Zulfiqar was the sword of the Prophet of Islam which he gifted to Hazrat Ali on the occasion of the Battle of Uhud.
According to Taj Haider, the People's Party fought the elections of 1970 and 1977 on the symbol of the sword, but when General Zia-ul-Haq imposed martial law in the country and announced non-partisan elections in 1985, the sword was removed from the list of electoral symbols. The sign itself was removed.
Arrow and Anthem
After the death of the former President of Pakistan General Zia-ul-Haq in an air crash on August 17, 1988, the Pakistan People's Party participated in the general elections in the country and won. This was the first election under the leadership of Benazir Bhutto in which the People's Party contested on the symbol of the arrow.
According to Senator Taj Haider, even in the 1988 elections, the list of election symbols did not include the sword, after which the Pakistan People's Party chose the arrow symbol similar to it. Along with this, our anthem 'Dilan Tir Baja Dushmanan Tai' was introduced to make people understand that now our symbol is a sword, not the arrow.
Establishment of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary
Currently in Pakistan, Pakistan People's Party Bilawal Bhutto and Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary are under the leadership of former President Asif Ali Zardari and both have separate organizational structures.
In the year 1999, during the government of Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto was disqualified by the accountability court headed by Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum, after which the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary was established.
According to Senator Taj Haider, Benazir Bhutto presented the tapes of the conversation between the then-head of the Accountability Bureau, Saifur Rehman, Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum, and Shehbaz Sharif in the Supreme Court, after which the decision was annulled.
It had been sentenced that Benazir Bhutto could not participate in the elections, she was the head of the party, so the party was also prevented from participating in the elections, then the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary was established, headed by Makhdoom. Amin was Faheem. This party then got the symbol of the arrow and participated in the elections, after the sentence was revoked, Benazir Bhutto also participated in the elections, but the Pakistan People's Party was still not restored.
Benazir Bhutto's brother Murtaza Bhutto's widow, Ghanwa Bhutto, filed an application to the Election Commission of Pakistan seeking to be allotted a sword symbol with the name of the party.
Naheed Abbasi, who separated from the People's Party, had also applied to the Election Commission in the past to give her the name and arrow symbol of the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarian, but the Election Commission rejected these claims and after about 41 years, Bilawal Bhutto gave the symbol to her. Under the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, the party has been restored.
Sword or arrow
Benazir Bhutto, the former head of the Pakistan People's Party, fought all the elections on the arrow symbol, while later under the leadership of Asif Ali Zardari, votes were also taken on the arrow symbol, but now the party under the leadership of Asif Zardari has the arrow, while Bilawal Bhutto. The election symbol of the People's Party under the leadership of
Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary General Elections in the country will be fought on the arrow markBut the question is, why is it important to keep both parties and symbols?
Senator Taj Haider says that there are always dangers. In the year 2013, there was a fear that the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary may not be declared null and void, there are still risks that there will be a case against the Pakistan People's Party or something like that by the Election Commission or those who are working. The Pakistan People's Party should be kept away from the elections, so the party has kept both the election symbols.