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05/05/2013

Pakistan General Election 2013 And Social Media

By : Saba Siddiqui

A hectic election fever is underway this time around in all over in pakistan with candidates desperately chasing voters. Most candidates have used all available methods during the election campaign to gain votes, from traditional tribal affiliation to using  most popular social media  like Facebook and Twitter.

Some political parties has made their page on social networking web sites for targeting youth actually Pakistani Nation will get yet another chance to elect their representatives in Election 2013. We are watching election campaign in full swing with political parties reiterating their “change” and “inqalaab”

We have to stand up and start our national struggle to meet the objectives and goals of Pakistani society. The recent revolution in Middle East called “Arab Spring “ is the success model for our Nation. Social Media played vital and decisive role in spreading the message of revolution around the Middle East. The power of social media was witnessed by the world when massive campaigns were run on Twitter, FaceBook .

We do not want to bring revolution with the power of bullet in Pakistan but we want to see peaceful revolution which would be durable and sustainable for the country. In upcoming elections, we could use the power of ballot to bring this revolution. The youth of Pakistan could use social net working web sites to educate and provide awareness to the common people of their right to vote. They could expose the cruel faces of our feudal lords, industrialists, religious extremists and corrupt ruling elite.

Our youth has to understand that now we don’t have any excuse on how to spread the ideology and philosophy of truth after the vibrant presence of social media. Newspapers and TV channels might not give us the space and time to educate the people but social media is giving us equal and fair opportunity to spread the message of revolution.  We have the freedom of speech now in Pakistan through social media which allows us to address our domestic and international audience at the same time.

Educated, honest and Middle class leadership is the need of our domestic audience for progressive and prosper Pakistan where as the same phenomenon would make the region stable and peaceful for international stake holders.

Now this time lats get active on Social Media to build a consensus on the next leadership of Pakistan and get rid of this corrupt system .