Incompetence galore
Offence, Ch Nisar needs to understand, may not always be the best defence. He has to realise that the PPP leaders are not the only ones to maintain that NAP remains mainly unimplemented. It is futile therefore to find motives behind the criticism which is as genuine as it is widespread. The issue has been raised by the army leadership at high level meetings, particularly the failure to choke terror financing. In August, a high level meeting was warned that gains achieved by military operations would be lost if NAP implementation does not improve immediately to deny space to terrorists. The Supreme Court has lambasted government over its failure to implement NAP with a judge observing that “not a single bit of work was done on the plan despite the passage of six months since its inception”. The judge called it a big joke devised to deceive the masses. A knowledgeable retired police officer has in a newspaper article called NAP a “No Action Plan”. Nearer home, Defence Minister Kh Asif maintains that the speed required to implement NAP was lacking for which the government (read “Interior Ministry”) should accept responsibility. Ch Nisar will find many unconvinced if he was to find motives behind each one’s criticism.
If Ch Nisar was keen to vent his spleen on the PPP he should have chosen another occasion for his favourite pastime. Among other things, Nisar needs to answer why Maulvi Abdul Aziz has remained immune from the laws of the land. The man has come up with a video now where he said things which amount to hate speech, fanning militancy, instigating sectarianism, inciting terrorism and challenging the state. Referring to Maulvi Abdul Aziz, Talat Masood, a highy respectable columnist, once said his case indicated that “the state has become feeble or is in cahoots with him”. Why must Nisar say things that are contrary to facts to defend the Lal Madjid cleric in the Senate? Should one find motives behind his obfuscations too?