RAPE OF BALUCHISTAN

NON-POLITICAL POLITICS.

RAPE OF BALUCHISTAN.

Khurshidalam44@hotmail.com Dated: London.

Baluchistan problem is no more the internal problem of Pakistan. The credit of internalising this issue goes to that “mind set” that rules Pakistan for the last 64 years. Baloch must be grateful to the rulers of Pakistan.

Today if it is a sub- committee in US congress tomorrow it may be the general assembly of UNO. As Mr Jamil Bugti and Akhtar Mengal said, without chewing words that there is no one to dialogue with. They have been invaded by army 5 times in the name of ideology of Pakistan and integrity of Non-Islamic, Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The two sacred cows has given free hand to the establishment of Pakistan, to crush any one who challenges the sanctity of this Dogma.

Dogma is always never negotiable. The dialogue is out.

There is wide gulf between Pakistan ruling class mentality and the aspiration of Baloch people. Baloch people are asking for human and national dignity and sanctity. The Pakistani rulers are dishing out political bribes in the form of political packages and provincial autonomy.

Some of the so-called die heart Pakistani intellectual attributes the miseries of a common Baloch to the Sardari system in Baluchistan. And advise the Baloch to shun Sardari and opt for Pakistan tailored Choudhrahat. What a treatment?

The gap in the perception is so wide that there seems no common ground to start meaningful dialogue. The Baloch nation deeply distrusts the Pakistani mental make up. They cannot be blamed for it.

The killing of the leading people of Baloch nation has shattered their confidence. They have a deep-rooted feeling that the nothing can stop the rabid elephant of Pakistan establishment when they come at rampage. They are the elephants of Porous crushing its own people. The constitution is a piece of paper to them.

Mr Fahad Husain was at real pains to know in “Agar” with the host to reach to the root cause but failed. This is the only sensible program started by ARY very recently.

It is inconceivable that the establishment does not know the real demand but they consider it contrary to the spirit to the ideology of Pakistan. The sacred cow cannot be touched at any cost. The only Baloch leader who supported the Pakistan was killed at the age of eighty by a surrogate General of Pakistan establishment, described by the daily Guardian, the dollar washed son of American Imperialism. He feels proud to confess it in every speech.

Neither the establishment nor the “Free Judiciary” is ready to take a So Moto action to sooth down the hurt aspirations of Baloch nation. The attitude speaks louder than intentions. Pakistani real rulers have never displayed their attitude to reflect their intentions.

There was only one occasion when Baloch entered as a nation in Pakistan’s politics in 1970 and had a land slide electoral victory in Baluchistan when they were all in NAP.

The dismissal of NAP government followed by the military invasion and the subsequent brutalities like the enucleating the eyes of the son of Sardar Mengal by a Pakistani colonel and to show to his father while he was admitted in Jinnah Hospital.

Gen Zia promised on oath that the culprit would be brought to justice. Like his entire oaths including the one he took in holy Kaaba were never fulfilled. He was a crook of the first order and a sectarian fundamentalist, supported by American to be used in Afghanistan and was killed by Americans after Ojhri Incidence.

It is very simple that the human dignity is a forerunner to national dignity. On regional level it is the basis of true federation and global level it is inter nationalism. It was negation of these rules that divided Pakistan and disintegrated a super power, USSR. Pakistan establishment is under oath not to learn from history nor care for the constitutions. So Moto actions are taken for personal gains.

Our rulers must accept the spirit of national and individual dignity. All other promises, packages, constitutional or extra constitutional favours come as a part and parcel with it. In Pakistan constitutional guarantee has been flouted several times after the constitution was made in 1973. The irony is that both, the generals and jurists flouted the constitution. In a country like Pakistan how can any body be trusted? Where the Jurists like clergy invent “ Nazria Zaroorat” and the general execute it according to their wish.

Pakistan mental make up needs land not people it was the reason of the creation of Bangla Dash, it will be the root cause of greater Baluchistan and so on. Pakistan is suffering from auto rejection phenomenon there is no point to put blames others. Unless this silly idea of integration of four nations in to one is abandoned nothing can save Pakistan.

Our rulers are shut to logic and have micro cephalic approach to the history of the world. They have no vision because they have no courage to acquire it. They are opportunists, myopic, political dwarfs and historical orphans. They want to divert the establish history by their impulses and personal whims and every time mutilate and brutalised themselves. They are amnesic lot. They forget the past and not used to learn from the history.

I had the opportunity to have extremely closed relations with Baloch leadership. I owe them I have been their student and a younger. They sincerely tried in 1972 to join the main stream but they were thoroughly disappointed and rejected. I have heard Sher Mohammad Mari (known as Sherof) telling Faiz Ahmad Faiz and I quote,” Faiz sb. I am a human. I have no food and no dignity. I don’t need one without the other. Please try to understand us.”

On another occasion when Late Ajmal Khattak told me to become a good doctor to serve my poor people, Nawab Khair Bakhsh chiselled in and said I am yet to see some one who is a doctor first and human being later. Earn human dignity first then serve your people dignifiedly.

I know my shortcomings as a writer but I hope I have explained quite clearly the feelings, aspirations and demands of Baloch and the inability or refusal of Pakistani rulers to understand them.

We the smaller nations are natural allies. The biggest triumph of Mr Bhutto was to break this alliance forgetting that he also belongs to a smaller nation. He paid for it.

While the federal constitution is being framed at this very moment the Jurists have offered their shoulder to the establishment. How can we be made to believe that those who have the power will not fire the bullet? How we can be made to believe that the power has shifted from GHQ to Parliament house.

Let me conclude with the famous statement of Air Martial Asghar Khan that Bangla Desh came in to existence when Lathies were raised in Lahore and bullets were fired in Dacca.

Now it is up to Fahad and Ghauri to learn from these small quotations. It is not important that Sui gas is all over Pakistan but not in Sui but it is not only denial of rights but also denial of dignity. It was further insulting by Kashif Abbasi to tell them that the Nawabs of Baluchistan are dictators. But if we accept this accusation what is the moral ground for Pakistani rulers to take the responsibility to liberate them from slavery.

PAKISTAN ARMY IN POLITICS

The subjective feelings to taste the lust of power may be one of the reasons that the Generals in Pakistan army ruled the country in uniform without any problem for a long period of its life. But during the spells of civilian rule in the middle their presence was quite distinctly palpable. One thing we must bear in mind that they might have handed over the chairs but never the “power”.

It is a wrongly perceived idea that there is a trio of Pakistan establishment. There is only one and one institution that holds the power and that is army. I am trying to avoid the word, “democracy” and use the word civilian rule, as there has been no democracy in this unfortunate country since it’s conception. The civilians have been voted to chair but the right of authority has never changed hands. It has always been the Devine right of the army, and still is.

It will be unfair to squarely put the blame on armed forces. The civilian leadership was inept and incapable to have a vision to rule the country.

They were politically on shaky grounds. Initially the leadership and civil servants were all imported. They had no roots in masses and were running the country on whims and trying their level best to avoid the institutions or for that matter the involvement of the masses. Their mental make up was that of despots. As despot always view their wisdom superior to collective wisdom.

Initially they needed the good will of the army which was mainly Punjabi dominated. It was an uneasy cohabitation between the imported civil servants and local Punjabi army. This situation existed till Punjab became the sole supplier of the both.

The shaky civilian government took refuge in the army and army in turn sought refuge in US support. The army since then is the more than a major stakeholder in power.

Democracy never had a take off. This alien idea was not given a chance to take its root in the soil of this newly proclaimed state.

Some times it really wonders me that why we Muslims have no a real democratic state that is by the people, of the people and for the people, to encompass the full definition of the democracy in it’s totality.

Though there is no Islamic State in the world but the Muslim dominated countries are all under the clutches of despots, dictators, kings and sheikhs.

Going back to the caliphate era, three out of four caliphs were martyred. It seems there is no mechanism of peaceful transition of power.

In my view the Muslim rulers diluted and ‘customised’ Islam to suit their own interests. Immediately after the Prophet’s death the tug of war for power started. The Caliphs had enormous powers. They were the chiefs of the army, the Jurists and rulers. But there is no doubt that they had the prescribed qualifications to be the Caliphs and were answerable to the Consultative Bodies. Their honesty was never in question.

Later on despots in the name of the religion ruled the Muslim masses. They neither had the strength of character nor were answerable to the consultative bodies. Nor an ordinary citizen could dare to question them. In fact they retained the powers of the Caliphs and flung away the qualification required to be a Caliph. The style is altered but the essence is retained.

It is my candid opinion that the downfall of the Muslims owes its root to the failures of their colonial surrogate rulers. Not a single state except Afghanistan has retained its independence during two world wars.

Majority have gained independence because the colonial power lost the strength to manage them any more. Those who fought for independence lost their gains to the opportunists and cronies of the colonial powers. The people of vested interest hijacked the movements. The same game is in progress in the present Arabs awakening.

In this desperation the clergy got opportunities to introduce terrorism in the world political body. The state terrorism of the west was the most potent stimulant to the mushroom growth of the shadows of terror.

Pakistani rulers had no vision or political acumen to see beyond the tip of their nose. They had neither been through the process nor had the wisdom to see the future. Pakistan is the shining example of this myopic vision and dare I say moral muteness? There is hardly any important issue that is decided in the country. There is hardly any state secret. Still we blow fire and fooling the masses that being a nuclear power we can blunt the teeth of US administration. The same silly nuclear capability is now a liability for the country.

We are least bothered by the sovereignty of the land but space is more important to us. We have shut all facilities to US forces and COAS went to the extent to order to shoot down any plane that violates our air space.

For the last one week the old game is on unabated. This is what we wanted to avoid. We were pleading that diplomatic channels should sort out the conflicts. Under the pressure of sectarian parties and political parties to the right forced the Military and civil leadership to give in and put the credibility and competence of the army at stake.

The country was destabilised further internally and externally isolated. Impulses do not work in international diplomacy. It is the logic that is heard. One should juggle with the domestic strengths and weaknesses to formulate the foreign policy.

One must take his own strength realistically before taking a belligerent position and then backing out. It is more humiliating than silence and wait for an opportunity. A quiet diplomacy keeps the enemy guessing and domestic limitations buried. But adventurism exposes every thing but unfortunately it is our national character. To some of us the integrity of the country is secondary to political scoring.

The whole system was made to derail. The institutional confrontation shook the basis of civilian rule. All the politicians stand naked in front of the armed forces and the armed forces were unjustifiably exposed internationally.

Have we alternative to Americans? China cannot be alternative. If it is able to make a difference it will not be instantaneously but possibly in a distant future. We are in urgent need to put our house in order and increase the Military muscles if it is really needed.

This is not a rented out country any more, as was put to PJ Mir by a western news analysts. It was in that state during Ayub times. Gen. Zia and Musharraf have mortgaged it. We have a small cleavage diplomatically to manoeuvre politically.

There is a complete confusion who runs our foreign policy, arrange foreign loans and provide security. There are two many wise men to distribute the work. But it seems that none of them know their responsibility but have masterly command on the other’s sphere. As put so nicely by Bertrand Russell "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

This is my honest belief that the problems of Pakistan stems from this confusion. No strength of a single pillar in a country can guarantee the smooth running of the government. Every one has to remain in its own jurisdiction. The country cannot afford opportunism any more. If some are determined to experiment with reality they must realize that the experience is a good teacher but the fee is too high. Are they ready for that price? 


PAKISTAN IN DEEP CRISIS.

By: khurshidalam44@hotmail.com Dated: 16^th January 2012 London.

It is consoling to the mind that we have still some political leaders to diffuse the situation to avoid the sad demise of Pakistan. Though we have yet to give up the habit of giving certificates of patriotism.

Some, shut their eyes to the very fact that constitutional jurisdiction of the institution is secondary to the death of the state.

It is true that mere holding election does not encompass the definition of democracy. It just defines the government by the people but not for the people and of the people.

But it does not mean that one should derail the process, but to let the people get educated and force the government to incorporate “for and of the people”. It needs time and allow the process to take its due course. Literally there was no opposition to the Indian Congress in Indian parliament till early eighties. But with the passage of time it grew up.

Adventurism is no alternative to a limping march towards the full democracy. Maturity of the masses cannot erupt over night like a daffodil of the spring. It needs literacy, education, and ultimately ‘Jail breaking’ their minds.

The adventurism is the hallmark of our history of 63 years. Quite sadly, undemocratic manoeuvres stems from the days of M.A.Jinnah.

As Dr. Tahir Gora has rightly said in his book, Jinnah took most of the undemocratic steps during his very short life after the proclamation of Pakistan. His option to be in the Governor slot and conducting the Prime Ministerial role, dismissing the successive governments in different provinces were all indicators for the future set up of the so called Islamic State. It was concept of caliphate rather than a modern democratic state.

In a caliphate there are also some qualifications to be a Caliph those were put

aside. The very creation of Pakistan was without a vision of the future. Subsequently every change was in the same direction. Every one is naked in this foul play. Military or civilian despot ruled the country. The ideology of Pakistan was used as a dogma that was strictly followed to deal with the opposition and to save the chairs.

Kakool produced more politicians than all universities combined. Every change was the change of the men not of the minds. The basic aim was the same, to strengthen the dogmatic status quo and ultimately suffocate the logical approach. The sword led the book; logic was forced to follow the impulse. The impulsive led the crowed into unknown and unchartered waters.

Ayub martial law was proclaimed to stop the election in 1959 and avoid the landslide defeat of Muslim league at the hands of Awami League and NAP.

Ayub violated his own made constitution and instead handing over power to the speaker brought in Yahya.

Bhutto as Civilian Martial Administrator followed Yahya. It is a rape of the history to give the total credit of 1973 constitution to him. It was the serenity of the opposition of that time who did not use the precedence put by Bhutto himself and opted for making a new Pakistan with a constitution.

There was no question that Bhutto rigged the election, though he was winning the election but all that was done to get two third majority. It paved the way for Zia to proclaim another Black Law.

To break the backbone of PPP in Sindh he created a Mafia of MQM. The failure of PPP and Muslim league to deliver some good to the people, Musharraf stepped in. Musharraf stepping in was the total failure of Nawaz League to bring the required changes in the constitution in spite of having two third majorities. Instead he resorted to most undemocratic ways and means?

If we cast a bird eye view on the sequence of events it was the lack of vision on the part of politicians who invited the army. The army strengthen their place by entering in to different strategic pacts with Americans. The civil bureaucracy transformed itself to autocracy to match the mentality of the army and work in harmony. The institutions were made irrelevant.

The judiciary went a step ahead to offer their loyalty to the nucleus of power by surrendering its independence. It is a chain of events that makes the history of Pakistan that brought us to this sad state of existence.

Every institution is sticking to its gun. The politicians of right wing have thrown the bone of contention that has brought the institutions into direct confrontation.

All the institutions are radicalised and politicised and have ridiculed themselves. Army still demands its “say” in political affairs whether it is Kerry Lugar bill or Memo Scandal. NRO is the brainchild of the army but the punishment is being given to the beneficiaries.

The judiciary may be free but the neutrality of the Jurists is having a big question mark. A layman like me can smell the rotten and can see the partisan attitude. Only an insane would believe that the thinking of a full bench of the epic court is total consensus. Unless the CJ is running the court, on the same pattern as the COAS of military. The court has forgotten that its new gotten freedom owes to the blood of many innocent political worker of ANP and PPP and particularly to Benazir.

The politicians have learnt nothing from the past or too dwarf to learn. They lack vision and acumen without any shred of a doubt.

The army has failed to preserve the sanctity of the sovereignty of the land but is trying to re-assert their lost credibility to hit hard on the beleaguered government.

Is memo scandal more lethal to the integrity of the country than the breaches in the defence lines of GHQ and Naval head quarter? Does the military leaders respect carry more sanctity than the places they are suppose to protect.

The free journalism has already passed the verdict on the government of being guilty with no right to appeal.

Constitution determines the jurisdiction of each pillar. But it is note worthy that is being applied to the government on regular basis but some how other pillars escape or considered run by angels, not vulnerable to commit any mistake? There has been hardly a month that has passed without a scandal.

The parliament has been made disabled by the opposition not to take its seat and has opted to be represented by a proxy opposition.

Was the statement of the PM in the parliament really unconstitutional? Was a serving general not supposed to take his permission while going on spying visit? In a parliamentary government is the president not the Commander In Chief of the army. Why the army leadership refused to give him the protocol he was entitled for? Is it not the violation of the rules?

The attitude is the reflection of the intentions. Does it not apply to the army, judiciary and press? Why the parliament is the only target? Why are we shy to experiment with truth?

Why the CM of Punjab was not served a contempt of court? Why Nawaz Sharif was not asked that when he threw the unanimous resolution of the provincial house to rename the N.W.F.P. in waste paper bin while the verdict of the same house was honoured to nominate his crony Mr Tarar to the presidential slot?

Is it to fool the public?

In one breath it is claimed by Nawaz League that any unconstitutional step will be resisted while paving the way for their intervention.

To have the emergency meetings of Jurists and Core Commanders is considered a norm but to recall of the parliament is abnormal. Is it not perplexing?

In this backdrop it seems that it is not a federal form of government but a unitary style of government to safeguard the interest of the elites of Punjab and retain the name of Pakistan for international political convenience.

The rape of history, which started with the creation of Pakistan and is being pursued in words and spirit till today? Why not to bloody confess it?

PAKISTAN PLUNGED IN TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS.

Khurshidalam44@hotmail.com Dated: 5^th January 2012 London.

Pakistan sunk once again in to deep political and constitutional crisis. All the five pillars of the state have declared their total independence even if it is at the cost of the integrity of the country, just after 4 years of Military Rule. The fifth pillar that is usually ignored, is the opposition in the parliament popularly known as shadow government. The shadow PM has refused to allow his shadow to sit it in the parliament unless he is physically on the treasury benches.

The country as a whole has been so extremely radicalised that there is hardly any institution that can be given a benefit of doubt. The underlying philosophy of the armed forces all over the world is, do or die. But in Pakistan the same philosophy is even pursued by Judiciary. The CJ is just like COAS in the army and the judges are the core commanders. The judiciary is ‘free’ but the Jurists have to obey the command. I am really surprised of such conformity of thoughts and semblance of thinking processes across the board. Even during Zia times there was one dissident note of Justice Safdar Shah in the case of Late Z.A.Bhutto. It reflects the castigation inside the judiciary that is far ahead of military establishment.

It is interesting to note that this very institution was the first to sell its independence just after the proclamation of Pakistan. The Judiciary would have never seen independence, if the black coat movement had failed. There are many political pundits to rob the black coats of its historical achievements. This sort of foul play and distortion of history is a day light norm in Pakistan. It was that movement which shepherded independence not only to judiciary but to politicians as well.

The tug of war was going between the government and Judiciary for quite a while but the crisis were not so stark as the chief of the armed forces was playing a pacifying role. As soon as the judiciary found that the iron is hot and it is the time to bang hard they did it with full vigour.

As I said that judiciary surrendered its independence to civilian rulers after the birth of Pakistan and the politician were responsible to invite the army to share power with them. The reason was their lack of confidence and sense of insecurity. This feeling of insecurity stemmed from the very fact that the imported leadership had no constituencies and hence no sense of accountability. They were on shaky grounds. They conceived in petty handicapped manner, that the country should be ruled by impulses and subjective whims rather by institutions. The present crisis is the culmination what our great leaders did to this country to safe guard their own interests from time to time.

Pakistan relations with US were never turbulence free. They invested in Pakistan for their national interest and the main beneficiary was always the army. It was no secret that US considered the Pak army as the most allied ally of US administration. Internally there was no alternative to challenge this naked interference. Gradually we lost the ground sovereignty of the country to US. US were taken up by surprise to see such violent reaction to the air Sovereignty. It was for the first time in the history of Pakistan that the differences erupted between Pentagon and GHQ in Islamabad. The sequence of events was such that they could not be covered any more. Military leadership did not like to appear before the parliament but could not ignore the pressure of the public and media. The relation between the army and civil government came under strain. The opposition and judiciary joined hands to hit harder in this cleavage.

The fledgling civilian institutions were brought to direct collision. They are sticking to their guns. It appears that unless some hidden hands intervene into the situation, our present leadership can’t diffuse it. It seems that judiciary and Nawaz League is decided to settle their score and is not ready to tolerate the however impotent civilian rule for a year, and would rather allow a potent military rule, yet for another decade. It is classical ‘Déjà vu’ to indirectly invite the military. Army has never been out of politics but they are the masters whether in uniform or in Shirwani with Jinnah cap. The scapegoat is poor Haqqani. We hope that he is allowed to live for a while to see the end, which is unfortunately least likely.

It will prove once again that no one is tolerated from the small provinces irrespective of one’s mental knacks. It is a special mind set that is required to rule the country. This well tarnished mind-set is the offspring of the ideology of Pakistan, a dogma not to be questioned, critically examined, or logically assessed.

The result will be the abrogation of the constitution and introduction of a unitary system once again. The struggle of small provinces will start from the scratch again should Pakistan survives.

This is not an unexpected or unimaginable in Pakistan. This is the only country where civilians invite military to rule, where sweets are distributed on military take over, where judiciary has voluntarily surrendered its independence. Where personal vendetta has priority over the country’s integrity.

I fail to understand why the people of Pakistan are much infatuated by egoism. This big headedness has cost them to loose the very logic of its creation.

Whether it is our army or Judiciary they are all radicalised and are shut to reason. The present front on collision with their master will cost them dearly. The two institutions are highly politicised along radicalism. This is the only country that is demanding respect for service rendered by its rulers to their masters.

The army has lost professionalism, the judiciary is partisan, and the majority of lawmakers are a bunch of those who have failed to achieve anything in any other fields. They are shut to logic and never learn from the past. They are the drivers who never look in the mirror to see the past or side mirror to see who is overtaking. They are so immune to accidents that they never remember them.

Internationally we are isolated. We are neither reliable friends nor dependable allies. Internally we have no policy and the cornerstone of our external policy is to oppose anything that India supports. They are amnesic to the past, and blind to the future. Probably we have borrowed this from great communist King Mao who said that oppose any thing and every thing done by Americans otherwise you are a revisionist.

Soul Search!!

SOUL SEARCHING?

Khurshidalam44@hotmail.com London: 18^th Dec. 2011

It is a routinely used expression but I wonder if any one of us has ever thought over it? Some refers to it “inner man”. I feel it must be one of the hardest missions to comprehend. It has been a quandary for Socrates. He failed even to make his students understand about this, if we read his discussions with his pupils the night prior to when he was given poison to drink.

The most intricate relationship between the soul and the body in its self is a very thorny and tetchy issue. So for the medical scientist have also been on lurch to define life. Decades ago when heart ceased beating that were termed, Death. When scientists learnt the art of resuscitation they linked death with the Brain death. But we have seen the bodies of those who have been taken out of the graves after few days and found the nails and hair have grown. That leads us to speculate that the total death of the body is not followed even after Brain Death.

It seems a difficult task.

Unless one can define or elaborate a thing objectively or subjectively it is difficult to understand it. Philosophically speaking the soul is eternal while its shell, the body is mortal.

It is in the prison of the body-cage during life and leaves the body on its death when it is irrelevant to mankind. That is to say that when soul cannot use body any more, it makes an easy escape. Body is a tool for the soul to get things done. It indicates the strongest bond of the soul with humanity.

Body in its self has no important relevance to the evolution humanity. This might be the reason that Socrates and concurring people emphasised on the grooming and nurturing of the soul rather than body because of its eternity and immortal contributions to human values. The standard of values are probably set by the soul.

They were at pains to make their pupils understand about the purification and nurturing of the soul. It was agonising for them that how much do we care to look after the mortal shell or the body and the extent we go, to provide not only the needs of it but comfort also, be it cost us razing of human values. Contrary to what we do for our souls that is either very little or insignificant. Oblivious to the fact that once the soul leaves the body every one is in a hurry to dispose it off.

The more I read about it the more is the increase in my ignorance. It may be a simplistic approach or my idiocy but in my opinion the eternity or immortality are the most valuable factors that it stands taller. It gives an edge over on others factors.

The continued evolution of mankind owes itself to the soul search. The healthy and purified soul will utilise the body in a manner to deliver “good” to the mankind and to establish a chain of values that helps in the evolution of human society. The food of the soul is not expensive. All it requires to restrain your ambitions and to experiment with truth. These factors may have no value materially but is definitely difficult to practice.

Those who have succeeded in it to certain extent they have become immortal. For a moment if we cease to associate life with physical wellbeing and presume that the real life is lying in remembrance then we can reach to a conclusion?

Any thing that does not have geographical boundaries cannot be given a shape nor it can be defined. None of us have seen the funeral of the soul. To give shape or boundaries to it will be distortion of the reality. The stroke of a pen can dent it and the brush of an artist can blur it.

If a writer or artist tries to do so, will make it meaningless. It is not a matter to be palpated or visualised. Without these sensory input none can give it a shape or form. It is beyond human conscious thinking.

A non-matter gives birth only to non-matter. Now we can with some authenticity that feelings, imaginations, pain, love, anger and hatred are all the off springs of our souls. None has a material shape. None of them can be quantified or qualified. Pain is as old as mankind but it seems that soul is older than humanity. I must confess that later portion of my this assumption could be the influence of religion.

If it has to be expressed it should have no constraints or inhibitions in the form of non-material and immortal way like music. Its waves never die but exist in the atmosphere. Though with present technology it cannot be re-heard but it does exist, we do hope that science will capture their existence in times to come.

Soul purification though extremely difficult but makes Mahatmas from human beings. The two Mahatmas Buddha and Gandhi went through this ordeal to be remembered for their contribution to mankind.

Soul search must be a very agonising phenomenon. It seems like an auto-mirror of one’s interior and exterior. It seems difficult to look at interior, see yourself and let the others have a glimpse of it. It needs boundless courage and enormous strength of character to accept it.

HOW TO UNDO PAKISTAN’S DILEMMA? Khurshidalam44@hotmail.com London Dated 18th Dec. 2011-12-17

Pakistan relations with US have taken another twist for the worst. Pakistan has demanded tax for transit facilities from US, another mode to milk the bloody Drama.

As US demands “do more” Pakistan can demand “give more”. It would have been much better to ask for the blood money of 21 jawans killed in US raid with a precondition that future arrangement should be revisited. It would have been a logical approach as a usurper did the previous arrangement.

The whole country is buzzing with rumours. The clouds on Islam Abad are pregnant with all judicial or extra judicial rumours. It is due to the psychosis of destabilisation on one hand, power struggle on the other.

Those who repeatedly say that they will allow unconstitutional change are in fact preparing the path for the third force to come in with out invitation.

The opposition has neither the required strength in the house nor they have the ability of street power to bring any change. It is ridiculous claim of Muslim League (N) to steal the strength of black coat movement and attribute them to his charismatic leadership. Zardari has a good luck to have practically no have the most impotent opposition that is not trust worthy.

It may be the only logical explanation that every attempt by opposition to dislodge Zardari has failed so for. None of the has a realistic agenda.

Pakistan present Catch-22 is the result of 60 years idiocies. The major portion of present gridlock is inherited and the rest is the contribution of the present government.

These problems are always associated with a proclaimed state that is governed by impulses and day-to-day problems are solved on sensitivities. Neither vision nor ground realities play any role in formulating the national policies.

States cannot be run impulses. Unfortunately the alternative of institutional policies never suited the rulers of Pakistan. The idea of collective leadership was not in their DNAs.

The newly implanted civil rule is exposed to harsh realities. In their hierarchy there is no statesmanship to deal with the situation.

I am of the opinion that to come out present circumstances we must learn to experiment with truth and realise the ground realities. We

are in a state of war and there is on-going insurgency, a gross departure from normal diplomatic channel will be suicidal.

Our civilian government is too weak. Economy is shattered. The terrorism has strengthened its grip on the country. No one is safe.

The army is fighting a war against shadows of terror. A strong lobby and a good chunk of the public are supporting this bloody drama. The whole national has been radicalised by our so-called free press and so is the establishment.

The military, judiciary is highly politicised. The press is adding fuel to the flames of radicalism in the name of freedom. The society as whole is divided in to many fragments on sectarian and racial basis. National unity has become a dream of insane.

Keeping the above points in mind will it carries no logic to have a head on collision with US. They need us as a corridor to supply their beleaguered forces in Afghanistan who are running out nappies and toilet rolls but this dependence is only 30%.

We should not forget that our armed forces are totally dependent on them. We have no technical know how. Our financial dependence on them is quite substantial.

We are nation who eats barley and shooting rice. We damn care to loose a horn, but to save the ear. To down a US plane can push us back to the Stone Age.

Iraq and Afghanistan are the recent examples. This is the gift of unipolar world. Pakistan and other Muslim countries were celebrating the disintegration of USSR and were considering the biggest enemy of Islam. Now they must have realised their idiocy. The counter devil theory was more in the interest of smaller nations, like Pakistan.

Whether we like it or not but normal relation with neighbours and US is compulsion of our geographical location. Let us be honest to our selves. Do we have the firepower that can match 6th or 7th flotilla of US navy that can knock on our doors?

What could be the other logical reason behind the rhetoric of our opposition? As for as I think they never want peace in Afghanistan without realising they as long as US is stuck in Afghanistan there will be resistance and further radicalisation of our society that will stimulate growth of terrorism that will detrimental to Pakistan. The terrorist industry will boom day by day.

This is exactly what the opposition want to further their policy of GIVE MORE. They are interested in Dollars and Riyals. They are determined to milk the cow of terror to the last drop even if it is at

the stake of loosing the integrity of the country. They are myopic lot. They cannot be expected to see the distant future.

I have no hesitation to say it loud that the obliteration of Pakistan is being invited. The root cause is lying in our home it will be ridiculous to blame neighbours for them.

It is ludicrous to say that we can deal with the war of terror on our own. No one can do it. It has to be dealt on global basis. Pakistan should revise the terms and conditions and should stop double-dealings.

In the same vain as for as the Memo Scandal is concerned it is for public consumption. Opposition wants to capitalise on it. But the situation demands it must be investigated. I will support the stance of Ms Bushra Gohar (ANP. MNA) that to make it impartial Gen. Pasha must be asked to resign. It is a deep-rooted conspiracy. The ultimate aim is to get rid of the amended constitution that promise provincial autonomy.

Secondly to prolong the Afghan war, to ensure the flow of hard