Now I would like to address the question why this revolutionary movement was launched. Why can we not bring about change through parliament? Why do we fail in processing change through the parliamentary, democratic and electoral systems in vogue?

Given the targets of revolutionary movement to restore and establish true democracy, knowing of its stimulant factors merits scrutiny.

3.1 The Incumbent Parliament is Unconstitutional

Change through the current parliament and system is least possible as it was formulated in violation of article 213 section 2(a) and article 218 of the constitution. Article 218 section 3 stipulates that it is the duty of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to ensure that the whole of the electoral process is absolutely free, fair and just according to the law, and guarantees the elimination of all sorts of corruption.

Therefore, we cannot expect any good from this parliament, which is the product of blatant rigging and which has taken as its legislators the tax evaders, credential-thieves, extortionists, the representatives of dynastic politics, the mill owners, the loan defaulters, the traders and tycoons running business empires around the world. The present government along with the corruption-born parliament is unconstitutional and hence illegitimate. According to the spirit of the constitution of Pakistan, it is now mandatory to divest the poor masses of this corrupt and anti-people government.

3.2 Violation of Articles 62, 63

The articles 62 and 63 categorically state that any loan defaulter or tax evader cannot become a member of parliament, whereas half of the parliament consists of loan defaulters and tax evaders. Consequently, the corrupt have become rulers. Putting in place the incumbent parliament through infringement of the articles of the constitution relating to electoral business does not have any legitimacy; so it has been formulated in sheer rebellion against the constitution of Pakistan. Thus, a parliament that is brought about by violating the constitution can never be called a ‘parliament’, nor can it be termed as ‘democracy’.

3.3 Failure in Eliminating Exploitation

The article 3 of the constitution decrees that it is the duty of the state to eliminate all kinds of exploitation so that everyone can gain employment according to their competence, capability and education and that everyone is paid a salary commensurate with their quality and quantity of output.

Here we also need to ensure whether the conditions stipulated in articles 3 and 4, making the state responsible for such-and-such, are being implemented. Everyone will reply a loud and clear ‘NO’.

3.4 Failure in Providing Security to the Citizens

Article 9 of the constitution prescribes that it is the duty of the state to provide protection of life for everyone.

On April 16, 2014 a ferry sank in South Korea claiming the lives of 300 people. On this, the Prime Minister resigned. This is what a system and democracy is. In our case, as many as 50,000 people have been indiscriminately massacred since the surge of terrorism has seized the country; but has any of the rulers regretted the government’s flop in meeting the constitutional demand, leave alone to resign? When the state cannot provide security to life and property, such a government loses legitimacy and has no right to stay in power.

3.5 Failure in Eliminating Child Labour

Article 11 clause 3 of the constitution disallows children aging 14 years or less to work in a factory. Contrarily, the plight in Pakistan has shamelessly refuted the constitution. According to the UN reports about the period between July 2012 and January 2014, 10 million children had to labour perforce to earn bread instead of being in schools. This expressly reflects total negligence rather indifference to raising an educated next generation. They are criminally disinterested in the future of the nation. Have these so-called democratic rulers, claiming people’s mandate for five years rule, formulated any policy to address this awful state of future generations? For them democracy only means voting them into assembly for five years. Their democracy knows no law, constitution or human rights. They can prove it a false allegation if they have taken any measures to impart education to these ten million children keeping them from child labour and bringing them up as educated citizens. But the truth is that they need uneducated masses to vote them without knowing the significance of the electoral exercise. This is sheer violation of article 11 of the constitution.

3.6 Failure in Providing Free Education

Article 25a states that it is the duty of the state to provide free education to children aging 5 to 16. Then article 37(b) states that compulsory education be provided for free.

The deplorable fact is that, according to the UN report, of the top ten least educated nations, Pakistan stands second, whereas countries like Ethiopia and Kenya claim a better position than that of Pakistan.

These articles pertaining to people’s rights are mandatory and it is binding on the state to implement them. A government that does not implement these articles cannot be considered constitutional and legitimate; nor does it enjoy any right to stay in power.

3.7 Failure in Promoting Social Equality and Eliminating Backwardness

Article 37 states that it is the duty of the state to take special care to ensure that backward areas see progress in their education and enhancement in economic status.

This is simply regrettable that, even after 65 years, the backward areas are as they were, nor has it been included in anyone’s priorities to put an end to their distress and the shameful backwardness.

3.8 Failure in Providing Instant and Affordable Justice

Article 37(d) states that inexpensive and expeditious justice should be provided to the people of Pakistan. Contrary to this constitutional provision, people cannot even imagine of realizing their rights through legal process without having to pay heavy fees of hundreds of thousands of rupees, nor do they have access to the law in order to gain justice against open and proved injustice and oppression. Delay in meting out justice is the foremost reason for increase in crimes. In the first year of this government, only in Punjab, 2,576 rape cases were registered. This means that in Punjab, a woman is raped every three hours. Many people are killed every few hours. There are targeted killings, terrorism and bombs blasts in the country while the rulers are only engaged in loot and plunder.

3.9 Failure in Special Measures for Women and Children

Article 37(e) of the constitution states that such circumstances should be created so that women and children are not made to work in the professions that are inappropriate and detrimental to their age and gender.

These articles were included in the constitution in 1973. Forty two years have passed. Both the PML-N and the PPP have ruled the country three times each during this period, but these articles of the constitution that make it mandatory upon the state to provide employment to people and free education to children, and prevent children from being forced to work have always been violated and desecrated. Do such people have the right to stay in power and refer to this fraud as a ‘system’?

3.10 Failure in Enhancing Standard of Living

The constitution of Pakistan states that the quality of life for people should be improved and ordains that equal distribution of resources should be ensured to achieve this objective. However, the state of affairs is alarmingly shocking. The reality on ground is that mothers are committing suicide along with their children; household expenditure is being managed through prostitution; kidneys and other organs of body are being sold to make both ends meet; and people with meagre resources and on low incomes are forced to earn their living through illegal ways and forbidden means.

• Article 38(a) states that the accumulation of wealth and resources must stop and they must be distributed among the masses in a just manner.

You can see lofty mansions and palaces where the rulers reside and enjoy luxuries, and in the adjacent localities are the huts where the actual deprived and destitute Pakistanis live in distress and turmoil. On one side, you can witness the standard of living of the rich and privileged. They include landlords, industrialists, traders, masters of exploitation, extortion and corruption, the blood-sucking tycoons and pharaohs of modern times. On the other side, you can observe the standard of the ill-fated masses subjected to misery, suffering, poverty, deprivation and misfortune, in the stretches of Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan and KPK. Both the standards are polls apart.

• Then article 38(d) states that it is the responsibility of the state to provide five necessities of life to the people. The citizens who do not have the means to acquire these must be provided with food, clothing, housing, education and healthcare.

Has every individual been provided with employment? Is everyone provided with education? Does everyone respectably receive healthcare? Does everyone receive justice? Has everybody been provided with a house? The only answer to these questions is a shocking “NO”.

Survey the five-year rule of the last government and one year performance of the incumbent government. It will become vividly clear that the sole concern of the rulers has been to build up their business empires around the world. The unfortunate 200 million people of Pakistan do not fit anywhere in their agenda except for voting them into power through rigging.

• Then article 38(e) states that the imbalance and distance between the standards and quality of the lives of the people created due to unjust distribution of wealth and resources must be removed.

Worthy people of Pakistan! We are waging a constitutional war against this system. From Articles 9 to 40 of the constitution are 32 articles that bestow rights on the 200 million citizens of Pakistan. Our protest is to register the bitter fact that none of these 32 articles has been implemented. Our protest is to make it clear that democracy, resources, governance, power and prosperity have been limited only to a small number of families and have not been taken down to the District, Tehsil, union council and village levels. Prosperity has not touched the homes of the people. Our protest is that practically the constitution has been suspended and principles enshrined in it have been trashed. The incumbent government and its anti-people system of governance is open and proved violation of the constitution. The political parties sitting in the government and their activists who still consider this parliament a parliament and take it as constitutional and democratic are now required to accept the reality after learning about the violations of the constitution they have perpetrated without compunction.

Today, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest, with tens of millions watching at homes. I ask the whole nation to ponder in the presence of Almighty Allah whether the government has taken any positive step in the right direction. Has the disparity of standard of living and resources among various classes of society been addressed in the last 42 or 65 years? These rulers will never do that because politics is their trade and governance a means of income. These rulers will only nourish their children and families at the cost of the generations of the poor. Therefore, the masses must rise against this anti-people system of electoral practice to vote the corrupt brutes to power. The constitution of Pakistan has made it binding on you to rise and send this unjust and bigoted set-up of wealth-mongers packing.

3.11 Defaming Assaults against the Defence Institutions

The Pakistan Army, the guarantors of the security of the constitution, state and territory of Pakistan, together with the ISI who surveillance the internal and external enemies, have also been subjected to disrepute and defamation. The Pak Army is being duped by the duplicitous action against PEMRA. If they dare the defence forces, where do the weak institutions stand? They in fact intend to malign, demoralise and weaken the defence of Pakistan, which is the agenda of our international foes. Considering them the last obstacle that can make them tumble on their way to plunder, they have attempted to humble the real source of the security of the people and their beloved homeland.

However, the people of Pakistan will not let it happen because all these steps are contrary to the constitution of Pakistan, democracy and the law of the land. The people of Pakistan will secure the supremacy of the constitution and will enforce it (God willing).

The first part of our discourse on ‘why this revolution movement’ concludes here. At this stage, our movement does not aim at holding elections; its objective is to purify the electoral system of its defects and make it transparent. We will certainly conduct elections but only after reforming the system and establishing the democratic values.