Aik Siasat Kai Kahaniyan by Rauf Klasra

Book Name	Aik Siasat Kai Kahaniyan
Author	Rauf Klasra
Publish Year	2010
Publisher	Dost Publications, Islamabad
Language	Urdu
Genre	Politics
ISBN	9789694963
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Aik Siasat Kai Kahaniyan Review:

Aik Siasat Kai Kahaniyan is written by a famous journalist Rauf Klasra, The book is filled with palace intrigues and power games in Pakistani politics. Former friends ditching old friends for new ones, relationships breaking due to assumed personal slights, grudges due to flippant remarks exploited by willing sycophants, and professional flatterers and go-betweens archiving high office, in short the political arena of Pakistan is exactly like a children's playground without any adult supervision. Most Pakistani politicians are in politics due to their privileged contacts not ideologies. There is little merit and a lot of opportunism, that is primarily the reason why most of them are easily played by army generals who have risen on merit. That makes sense as Pakistan Army is run on democratic principles where anyone can rise to the top slot regardless to caste or creed.The book is filled with political gems like when referring to Farouq Leghari's dismissal of Benazir's PPP government in the 90's, the author makes the following very astute point, how could Leghari choose to retain office after dismissing the corrupt government of PPP when he was put in office by the support of exactly same 'corrupt' people?