Apropos Arif Nizami’s column The Messiah syndrome. It is people living in contiguous region, their attachment to motherland, their deep stake in its existence, their belief that justice and freedom are guaranteed and their trust and faith that all institutions of state are there to serve and protect them, which keeps a nation intact. Without justice, freedom, equal opportunities, and laws no state can exist and in words of Lincoln: “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
No instrument of state in isolation, including armed forces, can serve as a binding force unless all institutions work in unison, each performing its constitutional and legal role and all of them answerable to people, submitting to laws and supremacy of constitution and its interpretation by judiciary.
Let us not forget that Soviet Union collapsed inspite of its mighty armed forces with their stockpiles of lethal weaponry because those at the helm shied away from providing welfare for most deprived sections and the role of Gorbachev who betrayed his country. It was Zia who compromised our sovereignty by allowing our land to be a sanctuary for foreign fighters, and the state instead of performing its constitutional obligation to provide education and health, forfeited it by allowing unregulated growth of madrassas which became breeding nurseries for terrorism that haunts Pakistan. Had we followed the constitutional path envisioned by Quaid-e-Azam, this country would have been a modern democratic welfare state.
It were men like Ayub Khan, driven by greed and ambition, who are responsible for sowing seeds of discord which led to dismemberment in 1971 when instead of accepting legal and moral right of majority rule Yahya ordered military action.
Musharraf was no messiah, nor were corrupt politicians who negotiated an NRO, giving amnesty to thousands of murderers, rapists and those who robbed state of billions or were involved in manipulated loan defaults. It is time that laws prevail over individual whims with justice and security for all. Merit must prevail and no criminal involved in any heinous crime, or robbery, whatever his political affiliations or beliefs, should be allowed to escape majesty of law, if we are serious in eliminating terrorism.
MALIK TARIQ ALI
Lahore
I really pity the subverted brain of this writer. He has tried to search shit in the food pan. Hid father Pandit Nehru had declared in 1956 that the story of Pakistan wouldn't last for more than six month henceforth, when these fraud degree Waderahs / Sardars / Saith were fighting amongst themselves for garbing power, after killing Qaid-e-Azam, Liaqat Ali Khan and the team which had created Pakistan. General Ayub was force to take over the control, failing which Pandit's forecast would have materialized. Zia had beaten out 15 times bigger Russian Army alongwith their Indian partners, with their 200 years old "Drive to Warm Waters". Musharraf booted out Americans, yet this writer most probably an Indian paid agent has tried to twist the facts. By the way how much these Indians pay such people?
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