THE SURVIVAL OF PAKISTAN
DR. KHURSHID ALAM
By loosing its East Wing Pakistan has lost the logical basis to be an ideological state. The present state of affair is getting worse by every passing day. Every dawn brings the message of another doom. The country has assumed the state of conduit for foreign powers.
The gulf between the provinces is increasing. The racialist, sectarian organisations, the by-products of military regimens, and the sacred cows like the agencies are all at work to eat up the roots of federation like maggots. The sate is crumbling down.
The government has failed totally and the alternative is not existing which is more worrying that the first one. The institutions are not playing their role according to the rules. Every one is an autonomous body functioning independently.
The constitutional experts have done their job but to implement it is beyond their scope.
The judiciary, the armed forces are highly politicised. Thanks to Gen Zia and Musharaf to convert the most unified and disciplined army in to a fractured force like Egyptian and Turkish army.
The judiciary is bulldozing other institution and have started a cleansing operation in the lower courts without giving chance to the accused to prove their innocence. Instead of interpreting the constitution they are the makers of the law. Justice Choudhry is behaving the same way with the others as Musharaf did with him. The black coats are keeping mum.
Some of the mafias in the government are reaping the fruit of both worlds to get the perks of the government and the right of criticism of opposition. They are planning the road map for extra judicial change. It looks the illogical approach. The public wants an alternative that if of the people and for the people then why to go for conspiracies instead of taking the straight path. The reason is obvious they have none.
The military is a fighting a loosing battle against the shadows of terror that have close relation with some political organisation. So as a nation we are not supporting the army but playing double game. As I said once they are nowhere but everywhere and instead of having uniform on the body their minds are in uniform. They are fighting in a terrain of their choice and choose the target of their convenience with the help of local well-wishers. In death they find eternal life in the heaven.
We have one of the biggest cabinets that wonder me that if 12 secretaries can run USA why can’t we run the country by manageable cabinet. Every third person is VIP.
The other white elephant is our electronic media expert in political assassination. Before the case is even taken up by the court they have already passed the judgement and crucified the person. The most decorated soldiers of this art belong to GEO, AAJ and ARY.
A fractured country with a fractured and incompetent government has very little prognosis to recover. The immune system is totally destroyed.
Our intellectuals and a bunch of politician have failed to get rid of the wishful thinking that it is an ideological state that gives us the logic of viability and existence.
All the means of our strength have become liability. In the process to remain an ideological state we lost more than half of the country and transformed the country in to the training school of the terrorists.
The chauvinism of Punjab, the arrogance of MQM, the exploitation of the religion by sectarian organisation and conspiratorial nature of the leaguers has left nothing for the state and country to defend itself. We should be ready for the sad demise if we failed to palpate the disappearing pulse of the state.
We are more worried than outsiders that our nuclear facilities are not in safe hands as demonstrated by Gen. Musharaf to use it against Nawab Bugti.
In the name of Islam and strong Pakistan combined with India phobia the smaller nations are being robbed their identity and resources. We have failed to learn sanity and soberness. As a nation we work on impulses. Will it convince Kashmiries to join us?
In my view Pakistan is the second name of collecting the contradictions of a subcontinent in a small pond. It is a country suffering Auto Immune Deficiency disease.
I belong to a hilly area of Pukhtoonkhwa. Our fields are usually terraced and sloppy. When we plough our fields with bullock the bull on the higher ground usually lower his shoulder to the bull on the lower ground to keep the balance. Unfortunately the bullock of Pakistan comes from the plain fields of Punjab to learn how to balance the ploughing.
