A country with no tomorrow

A country with no tomorrow? Life without purpose is a period of time but no life. A country with no today has no tomorrow. An institution with no tomorrow has no goal. A person with no dream is a sculpture. A leader with no manifesto is a thug. An organisation with no target is a lost mob. A man without aspirations is a non entity. Knowledge without light is a satanic virtue. Candle without flame is an eclipsed moon. A day having no tomorrow is the last day. A sinner is better than a saint because the sinner has a tomorrow and the later exists only in today. A bullet with no target is, " to whom it may concern." Intolerance to listen is a confession of ignorance. To be lost is better, than to be misdirected. A purpose has priority over need. The run of a mouse is better than the chase of a cat. As mouse is running for life and the cat is chasing its food. If we translate all this in to the political scenario of Pakistan, we will discover ourselves. Self conquering is more difficult than to conquer the world. He who fails to conquer his own self, always point finger to others for failures and can never excel. If we fail to comprehend that the one who is looking in the mirror and cannot see his only saviour, is a fool, ignore him he is asking for disrespect. If we are not respected internationally its because we don't know how to respect ourselves. Demand is made for a commodity not for virtue. Are we not disrespecting ourselves? The struggle to conquer ourselves is basically the struggle to gain respect from others. If we don't care for our lives or if our living is misdirected, why others should care for our death? A misdirected soul is a threat to the universe at large and having no entitlement to be mourned. The only exit available to us, is to learn to live with respect so to earn mourning on our death. No one mourns a threat or disgrace! If Pakistan really believes in its tomorrow they have to stop politicking and formulate a foreign policy that is in conformity with our internal ground facts, reflect the aspirations of the masses and national interests, based on the golden principle, to win friends not enemies. Tomorrow needs friends and the enemies belong to yesterday. No one is an enemy unless proved otherwise. We have lost a lot in creating enemies and has never achieved in enmity, then why to chase this insanity? Pakistan is standing at crucial juncture. Ups and down is a part of life, be it an individual or a country. The shattered economy can be restored. The political instability can be achieved but lost national respect is very difficult to win,it is like a person without an ego. The betrayal of trust or confidence is equal to a political suicide. We commit it quite often and then expect others to rescue us. The present run and chase policy between US and Pakistan is like the mouse and cat game. We are running for our life and they are chasing us for their food. Ours is purpose, theirs is a need. As I said purpose has priority over need. Will it not be logical to show a bit more sanity and flexibility to save our purpose that is at stake? They have the resources and huge buffering capacity and can attain their needs by other means, with a bit more cost but should we play with our survival? It is a rule of a thumb, equality is between equals. The wise person knows his seat in a forum of discussion. It is also generally true that the governments deals with facts and opposition deals with fiction. The first one is an engineer and the later is an architect. The most incompetent government is the one that cannot take unpopular decisions and the most stupid opposition is the who fails to exploit those unpopular decisions. The one is responsible for the survival of the country while the other is in a rush to capture the chair. The false ego will cost us dearly. The killing of our Jawans was a highly regrettable act. They were there to defend our borders. But the act of killing the state is an unthinkable crime. The existence of the country demands the posting of Jawans on borders to defend the country if I am not wrong in my thinking? But our opposition priorities are not understandable. Vital organs of the state have been targeted by terrorists in close collaboration with anti state elements, present in our own ranks and files. May I ask is it priority no 2 to our bosses of the armed forces,opposition leaders and jurists? Which one should take precedence? What is the criterion? Did our politicised jurists in our free judiciary took so motto action when the nerve centres of the state were hit? Did our opposition went for short march? This is a dump of filth is the result of misdirected policies of our rulers in last sixty years. Comparatively the present government might have added a bit more than they were required to, but no Jim can fix this miss in three months. Jim can be a character in a film or drama serial but in reality these are impossibilities. If their love is so boundless in nature for their country and masses what are they waiting for? To save the country and to alleviate the miseries of the public takes the priority over the chair. Is it not equal to fool the people? Give us chair and we will make heaven for you out of the present hell. What an aching heart? Apology or no apology but the ground facts cannot be ignored. Country's survival is at stake. It is no logic if a disabled person break his crutch for his false ego. For quite some time to come we need aid and trade both. It is good for public consumption that we don't need aid but trade. To start trade tomorrow we need aid today, to find our feet. At present there is nothing except terrorism that we can export. All other industries are grinding to halt. Internally the institutions are at each others throat. The electronic Talibans (TV anchors, with very few exceptions) have a soaring business. Can we expect a sensible government or monetary institution to put down in the drain their investments. Sovereignty belongs to those who are mentally sovereign and have no ban on dreams. The sovereignty is first established on the ground. Every sovereign ground has its own sovereign sky. An occupied land has no sovereign air space. Though bitter but it is the fact. We have to construct today to be entitled to aspire for tomorrow. Thos who have tomorrow can talk of trade not aid not the vice versa. Dr. Khurshid Alam. London 28/5/ 2012