Politics is a complex in nature in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). Three categories—— Constitutional Status of POK, Pakistan’s National Islamic Ideology and Pakistan’s internal politics, broadly determines it. This complexity has been happening since 1948.

 Pakistan Occupied Kashmir is, fortunately, not a colony of Pakistan. It is also not a Province of Pakistan. The stark reality, however, remains that POK is dependent on Pakistan for its existence and survival. These critical dependency factors include Pakistan’s patronage, budgetary provisions and Administrative control by the Pakistani bureaucracy in delivering as per the Pakistan Government dikaits. In the process, Pakistan has an overall control over the natural resources of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

   It is the well documented and historically proven reputation of the Pakistani Civil Servants that they have been good servants but bad masters. Their role and contribution in electioneering process has been of two kinds.  That has been  pre-election  and during the elections, by means of  bogus vote-listing, printing, stuffing and counting, besides inclusion of  ‘ghost voters’,  and to declare winners   against targeted predetermined losers. This has been going on in POK at the behest of Pakistani bureaucracy, which always works all the time in Pakistan as well as in POK.

   Ruling Party in Pakistan is always ruling party in POK

The ruling party sets the pace of this petty puerile practice. The absolutist authoritarian governments of Pakistan, whatever be the ruling political party or opposition, seeks to and succeeds in imposing its will, and if possible, writ in POK also. That is why the ruling party in Pakistan is also, always, the ruling party in POK!

   Thus, the genuine POK political parties are invariably at the losing end, because the Government of Pakistan controls the so-called Government of POK by means of massive masterminded politico-bureaucratic manipulation from Islamabad.

Futuristically speaking, the Future belongs to the youth. The Muslim Leagues are a spent force, despite their raving rhetoric. Their collective leadership comprises the ‘by-passed’ sick, ailing and utterly exhausted individuals. It needs stress-free restful retirement, at home or in safe havens abroad. All said and done, one simply cannot forget that the most youthful, healthy and patriotic collective leadership is in the Pakistan Armed Forces. Failed political power play in Pakistan invariably creates a power vacuum, which attracts the most powerful patriots.

The present political situation appears to be the same in Turkey…. That is why, over the past some months, particularly, after the nullification of Article 370 by India in Jammu and Kashmir, both Turkey and Pakistan seem to have come closer. It is the reason that Turkey and Pakistan share the same opinion and seem to be close friends. The reason is their internal conflict, both at political and social level.

 As Pakistan seems to get in a disintegration mode, Turkey too faces the same challenges.  Both Pakistan and Turkey are critically in need of crises management as well as damage control and repair, by means of national integration, defence and security and Islamic Tauheed.