QUETTA: Former PPP stalwart Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has expressed serious concerns over human rights violations in Pakistan, and has expressed fear that the country has come at the brink of a political breakdown.
Addressing a seminar here the other day organized by Balochistan Peace Forum, the former PPP Senator said “we have become politically and morally bankrupt. Even today, people are not being told the truth, which the country needs.”
While while reacting to protests in Gwadar by the local fishermen community, he severely criticized ‘absence of law’, adding that restricting people from holding peaceful protests is violation of basic human rights, regretting that there was no rule of law or democracy in Pakistan.
Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar questioned the willingness and intension of ‘stakeholders’, asking “If lawmakers can come together to give an extension to former COAS in twelve minutes then why not for Balochistan?”
He said relationship between the people and political parties had suffered blows in recent times, adding that politicians should address people’s issues rather than being engaged in irrelevant political discourse such as the Panama Papers and Toshakhana case.
“There were discussions on Panama [Papers] and Toshakhana [case], but where were the issues of people? The situation has gotten to a point where if one doesn’t leave the country, they are going to the mountains.”
He urged the stakeholders to rethink the judicial system to bring Pakistan out of the present mess.
