We have yet another self-exiled politician announcing his return from UK after a furlough of four years in foreign land. He was quietly waiting and watching the situation. His barrister comes up to tell us that he earns millions of dollars from his ‘lectures’.
Who pays him millions and where does he deliver his lectures remains a mystery? I admire the audience that listens to his million-dollar lectures. He claims himself in this video address that he is the champion of democracy. We have hundreds of definitions of democracy in Pakistan now.
The true proponents of democracy would probably commit suicide once they come to know the genius Pakistanis and the styles and variety of definitions that we have coined. Especially when it is defined by a genius like Musharraf or his colleagues here who are already enjoying their furloughs in KSA or elsewhere?
When I was a student, my professor told me a simple definition of democracy. He said, “It is a government of the people, by the people, for the people.” We Pakistanis have removed the word people. Our definition now says like this, “It is a government by usurping the rights, creating commotion and distortion and for unlimited time.”
AMJAD H MIRZA
Lahore
