Silence of wolves

For almost 60 hours there was this repulsive silence and disconnect of local, provincial and federal political executive, paid bureaucracy, an elaborate intelligence and security apparatus, to the slaughter of scores of innocent citizens, reminding us of wolves who have just devoured a herd of sheep and then chosen to leave till next slaughter. Having been driven against a wall where enduring further pain was unbearable, the Hazara community was forced to stage a protest that should have immediately shaken the corridors of power. So desperate were these unfortunate citizens of Pakistan who were promised by Quaid-e-Azam to be treated as equal citizens that men, women and children were forced to stage a protest exposed to below freezing temperatures. Why should the state wait so long to drive its citizens to desperation, just for seeking short-term political gains and keeping intact a dysfunctional coalition government headed by a clown?
We are reaping the harvest of engineered political discords along ethnic, sectarian and linguistic divides sown by military dictators like Zia, followed by Musharraf to thwart a united political struggle against their illegitimate takeovers. As if this was not enough, they mid-wifed an NRO of known corrupt men to bring into disrepute democracy and help them evade accountability from massive corruption, hiding behind smokescreen of what was expected of this corrupt mediocrity. It is time the people of Pakistan stood up to protect Pakistan from dangers within. This can only happen if everybody, including our masses, civil or khaki bureaucracy, political parties, and members of responsible media understand that each of us have faltered in the past and now there is no room for further mistakes.
For more than four decades, with the exception of few individuals, Pakistan’s destiny and policies have vested in the hands of semi-literate mediocrity, pygmies without any vision or sense of history, abusing state power, all driven mostly by lust for power, ill-gotten money etc, unlike the political leadership of our pre-partition era where icons like Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal etc, were all highly educated men with vision to look beyond their self-interest. Even after SC had declared this dysfunctional Raisani setup unconstitutional, Islamabad decided to flout this judgment and kept the clown, with disastrous consequences.
MALIK TARIQ ALI
Lahore