To say that Pakistan was mired neck-deep in problems would be the understatement of the millennium. That every day it was digging itself deeper into the hole it wanted to get out of can clearly be seen by all, except those doing the digging. And if someone tries to draw their attention to this problem, he is bound either to be ignored or abducted.
Going by the hectic buzz of activity in the corridors of power, our sinking economy, widespread hunger pushing increasing numbers of the hungry to suicide, and the darkness under which the IPPs have draped our unhappy land, are not Pakistan’s problems. Random abductions and torture by the agencies, police brutality, house break-ins, the progressive breakdown of law and order, and the burgeoning insurgencies in KP and Baluchistan are also not Pakistan’s problems. Also, what are not our issues are skyrocketing corruption, massive cross-border smuggling, the crumbling of the national ethos and the disintegration of the value system of our society.
Indeed, all of Pakistan’s many problems seem to have vanished in thin air. This is so much like a person of insignificant rank walking into the office of a senior officer and vanishing because his presence is not acknowledged. This is how our most crushing problems have disappeared. Quite simply, recognition is withheld from them, because all the attention of every government agency or institution is sucked up by Pakistan’s only problem which no government agency admits aloud.
Pakistan government’s whirl of activity is centred solely on how to somehow wangle an extension for Qazi Faez Isa, the nation’s most unprincipled legal mind. This extension will ensure that of Asim Munir, and his extension is vital to keep the Zardari-cum-Sharif circus humming so that our treasury depletion does not suffer a lag.
The obverse side of the need for Qazi’s extension is the requirement of dismantling Imran Khan’s popularity and making him irrelevant to politics in Pakistan.
Thus, Qazi Faez Isa’s extension is directly linked to the peace of mind of the most eminent thieves of Pakistan, both in and out of uniform, and to ruling out Imran Khan as a threat to this peace.
Immunity for the crime of overthrowing a legitimate government, and then all the crimes that needed to be committed so that this government stayed overthrown, is the central concern of the junta and its pups poodles and pimps.
Had a couple of generals somehow stumbled upon their consciences and handed the constitution back to Pakistan, Arshad Sharif and Zille Shah [among many others] need not have been murdered; the raft of abductions, torture, and house break-ins, which became an everyday practice, would not have been needed; the desecration of the dignity of so many women would not have had to be resorted to; and mendacity need not have become the defining creed of the nation.
And the generals, though they wonder why they are loathed and despised, they do not wonder about this aloud, lest they get to hear the answer coming to them. Handing over their country to the likes of the Zardaris and the Sharifs was like a father giving away his daughter to a pimp for safekeeping.
Because of this, two hundred and fifty million people of Pakistan are hard at prayer that God either push Asim Munir to migrate, or put him on a flight similar to Zial ul Haq’s accompanied by the same crate of mangoes, and with similar results. On the other hand, one thousand of the nation’s choicest thieves, led by a coterie of guardian generals, are equally hard at prayer that Qazi Faez Isa, the most crooked son of the soil, be able to get his extension.
Asim Munir’s zest for endless rule promises only endless misery for the people of Pakistan. This zest comes from a compulsion. This compulsion comes from the need for immunity against crimes committed. And crimes committed promise yet more crimes to come.
If the Lord too does not believe in democracy and grants the prayer of a thousand against the millions who constitute the rest, we should all consider our goose to be well and truly cooked.
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