Speaking of alternative views on impeachment, the following two editorials by the frontier post are eye opening:
"Welcome to real democracy
Just consider this: the Frontier Corps withdrew from Lowi Sam region of the Bajaur Agency on Saturday after fighting a 72-hour pitched battle with the militants, in which they claim to have killed 80 to 100 soldiers of the paramilitary force, capturing 25 of its vehicles, including two tanks, destroying its vehicles while suffering five to ten casualties of their own. The force, which was backed up by helicopter gunships, fighter planes and tanks in the fighting, asserted to have inflicted heavy casualties on the militants, while it admitted to the death of its ten soldiers and injuries to 15 others in the battle. Also, just consider this: militants stormed a village police station in Buner district on Friday, shot to death all the eight policeman present there; Fazlullah's militant outfit claimed the responsibility, with its spokesman ringing up the Mingora journalists to warn, "We would continue targeting government functionaries till the withdrawal of troops from Swat". Consider this, too: masked men opened fire on government servants standing outside their homes on Saturday in Matta tehsil's Sherpalam area on Saturday, killing three of them and wounding two others. The same day, militants blasted off a bridge linking Matta with Chapperyal, abortively attempted to blow up another bridge in the region and wiped out with explosives a basic health centre in Kishwara area of the militancy-infested Swat valley. Also consider this: gunmen snuffed out in two separate terrorist acts two personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary in the provincial capital city of Quetta on Saturday.
This is just a random take of last week's two days alone. Fuller account would be far much scary, far more dreadful and far more horrific. By every consideration, the FATA region is in flames; parts of the NWFP are in flames; and Balochistan, too. To add to our vows, the Americans and their NATO allies in Afghanistan are threatening to trespass into our territory in hot pursuit of the Taliban fighters and to destroy what they allege the Taliban's sanctuaries and al-Qaeda's safe havens in our tribal areas. To compound our grief, our troubled regions in the vicinity of Afghanistan have become the fishing ground of the alien intelligence agencies and the hotbed of their dirty games. As if that was not enough of it, the nature too has been very angry with us. With flash floods, it has wreaked havoc on us in Sindh, Punjab and NWFP amid glaring official apathy to the dole plight of its victims. And at this point in time, when the people are groaning screamingly under a punishing price hike, the prices of essential commodities like flour, rice, sugar, edible oils and tea have just skyrocketed and are skyrocketing unchecked. While petty shopkeepers and traders are fearfully witnessing their sales in a nosedive slump to throw them out of their business and into bankruptcies, the people are crying with hunger, starvation, unemployment and squalor. Just to refresh your memory, just a cup of tea at a roadside flies-infested shabby eatery costs neatly Rs.7, a piece of roti, now much shorter in size and much lighter in weight, Rs.4, a plate of pulse or vegetable Rs. 35, and a meat plate Rs.40. And these are the eateries that are frequented by low-paid employees and low-earning groups that barely make Rs. 4,000 a month and have large families back home to support. These are the places the daily wage-earners also repair to, who earn a pittance for a few days they get a job and live paupers for most of days they are jobless.
Yet, has the parliament been called to deliberate on the existential threats to this country or to ponder over the people's painful distresses and woes? NO, it has been not. Has the NWFP Assembly been convened to discuss the militancy rampaging the province so blithely or the ravages of the Peshawar flash flooding? NO. Has the Punjab Assembly been summoned to debate the flood havoc in DG Khan and Rajanpur and the saddening predicament of its forsaken affectees? NO. Has the Sindh Assembly met to review the flood destruction in the interior Sindh and the succour and relief for the populace left ruined and devastated? NO. Has the Balochistan Assembly been called to discuss restoration of peace to the troubled province and pull it out its people from their unenviable predicament? NO. Yet, all the assemblies have been called; and you know what for. Definitely, not to discuss the people's grievances and the extremists' and aliens' threats to its existence; it is for something else that indeed comes compellingly to the new leadership to fructify its own political agendas. But this leadership crows to anyone who cares to listen to it that it is the harbinger and the pioneer of real democracy in the country. So welcome to new Pakistan, now a real democracy. Still, the sages say that democracy is the government of the people, by the people - and for the people. Really? "