Letting anti-democracy elements wreak havoc won’t benefit anyone
The military operation against the terrorist networks continues unabated. With Miranshah and surrounding villages cleared of the terrorists, the army is now concentrating on Mirali. Other army units, supported by air force, are engaged in establishing their hold on terrorists infested areas in the proximity of the Pak-Afghan border. Federal Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch believes that the war being fought in NWA is greater than 1965 and 1971 conflicts with India.
Blissfully ignorant of the existential threat to the state, a number of politicians are pursuing their peculiar agendas. PTI chief Imran Khan has further hardened his confrontationist stance by declaring the march on August 14 a final and decisive battle which would root out the corrupt and bring a fair system in the country. The march, he contends, would not only put an end to rigging in general elections but also deal a blow to the whole ‘rotten’ system. He fails to explain how a march on Islamabad can remedy all social ills. Former CJ Iftikhar Chaudhary has meanwhile served a Rs20bn defamation notice on Imran Khan. His lawyer has warned the PTI chief to take the notice seriously because he could be disqualified from the National Assembly if charges are proved against him.
Amid all this Tahirul Qadri is waiting for a propitiate moment to announce his movement for revolution that will demolish the present system which he considers corrupt and incapable of delivering. The PML-Q leaders who have no share in power are equally keen to get rid of the system contending that that there is no democracy in the country.
While the army fights the terrorists and there are forces out to create instability, the top leadership of the country has gone abroad as if on leave. The prime minister, accompanied by two federal ministers and advisor on foreign affairs, is in Saudi Arabia for six days. So is JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman. PPP strongman Asif Zardari is currently in the US. When the political class becomes complacent, conditions are created that cause the system to cave in.
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