There is no doubt in minds of ordinary people in Pakistan
that the government is not serious to diffuse the situation rather they seem
serious to fuel it further. If the situation gets worse than who else except the
government is to be blamed for their incompetence in negotiation and deescalating
the situation. When a senior members of the governing party calls PAT leader as
an insane person and actions of the governments suggests that they don’t treat
them as even humans as well, whereas their only crime is that they are not elected
members. We don’t see the same treatment with PTI leader and members as they
are elected ones. The government has to realize the Qadri Sahib holds a power
and has fan falling among several thousand members of PAT. Like all the
religious parties these followers are also not afraid of giving their lives
away for the call of their spiritual leader. The agenda of the leader can be
argued if it pro Pakistan or against, is it inner directed or foreign
triggered. However he holds the power and he should be given respect and
attention. A proper formal initiation of dialog process should be carried out
without any delay. But this suggestion is for the ones who are new in the
affairs, Sharif brothers have been in the affairs of the state since ages.
Their behavior suggests that they themselves want to make the situation worst
and perhaps will flee away from the country. What if they were given this agenda
by their lords when they made extra arrangements in law to give them a chance
to become third time PM of Pakistan? What a pity a family that has been in
government for the highest time ever, still mourns to be given more time to
bring about a change. Perhaps they want nothing to be changed; they want themselves
and their kids in the government for indefinite time. The worst part is the
mindset of the followers; they don’t want a change. They can’t imagine any
other individual capable to govern the country. This thinking is an outcome of
the slavery they have faced by these families (PML-N, PPP etc) for the last
three to four decades. This has developed a lasting impact of slavery over
their minds and souls. Or perhaps, it’s down to the reason that most of the (so
called) die hard followers got birth during their regime.
To me the way government is handling the situation is a complete
suicidal which will result in (God forbids) a total chaos and anarchy. All the
top brass leadership of Pakistan from almost all the parties have their major stakes
in shape of staggering amount of investments outside the country, they have put
on their parachutes and life saving jackets they will pick their brief cases
and will return back to their home sweet homes and homelands.
The current situation offers high political incentives to
other parties as well. Wasif Ali Wasif in his book "Baat Say Baat"
said "Too many leaders indicate a leadership crises". Normally there
is one leader and lots of followers, unfortunately in our case (specially in
this situation) there are lots of leaders with lots of followers. A situation
where PAT is openly backed by PTI, silently by MQM PML-Q and even PPP if gets worse
than how the government will control the situation? Will they dialog with PTI,
PAT, PPP, PML-Q, MQM or other mushroom parties to diffuse the situation??? No
doubt everyone will try to take the greatest political mileage regardless of
how much loss it can bring to the country amid PML-N itself being the cause of
major disturbance and unrest in current situation.
The guarantee given to PPP and PML-N to rule the country for
three elections via so called democratic system (electoral system) with no Army
intervention by Americans (whistle blow by Shehla Raza in one of her talks the
other day in a live program) seems elapsed before time. Perhaps this was the
reason that after the recent meeting held between Nawaz & Zardari, both
leaders headed back to their lords to get some more extension i.e Nawaz Sharif
Sb going to Saudi Arabia and Zardari Sb heading towards USA.
A very hypothetical and naive imagination (God forbids),
what if PML-N persists with its current violent, seriously non-serious policy, Army
is not allowed to take control of the situation, few protestants get killed and
lots of them are injured, Islamabad is sealed by protestants and clashes
happening on every corner of the street between police and individuals,
terrorists getting benefits of the situation and committing more blasts…. Are
you scared??? Is the situation I am depicting is familiar to you??? Is this
what we have already witnessed during Arab Spring???? Don’t
you think our government is intentionally going on the road to Egypt, Syria,
Iraq and Libya???
God Help the Muslims living in the country (Is Mulk Ka Allah
Hi Nigaban Ha) and the Muslims around the world…
Syed Afzal Moshadi
Note: The author is a university teacher and the views shared are his personal candid views and are not aimed to hurt the feelings of others.
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