When the Army launched a relief operation against the Taliban in Swat, it was the right wing charity groups which rallied around. I have not heard of much done by the ANP. I have friends who are members of the ANP and most tend to call Pakistan’s Army “Na-Pak” army yet it is the army who is providing so much relief work. I know they are in a better postion but that is no excuse for the ANP who are a part of the government and who should have been preparing for this. ANP supporters who are anti-pakistan really abused and belittled the Pakistan Army for what it appeared it’s sometimes dubious role in the whole militancy in NWFP/FATA issue 2007-2009 but they forgot that so many army men were killed too.
Why is it that the ANP who always talk about the rights of Pakhtuns and play the Punjab card yet they cant even do a little to look after its own people? I dont know if it is genuine corruption, sheer incompetence or even a play t keep Pakistan backward and busy whilst india and possibly soon Afghanistan may leap a head. Their rise in Karachi has made ethnic tensions worse. They are not wholly to blame but one must question why situation has gone downhill since 2007, coinciding with the emergence of ANP as representative of Pakhtuns in Karachi.
I cannot expect much from the ANP. I could never anything from anyone who behaved like Zardari’s lap dog.
To read the article yourself you would have to access it from the archives and going to the date - 13/08/2010.
http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=ed&nid=43
ANP’s craftinessIf one is to learn how to disingenuously employ the human gift of ingenuity to camouflage even the blackest deeds impenetrably, one has only to turn to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ruling ANP clan, so unbeatably adept is it in this dark art. And as the province is being battered devastatingly by a destructive flash flooding, this inherent craftiness of this ANP clan too is in full play disastrously. If this calamity is the worst-ever in KP residents’ living memory, the ANP clan’s act too is the worst-ever to be put up by any KP ruling pack in the annals. And if the province is echoing from one end to end with the anguished screams of the stricken people over the terrible mass-scale ruination the ravaging floods have inflicted on them, it is filled with their shrill over their shocking downright betrayal by the ANP clan that has abandoned them outright to the elements to pulverise them. Yet the clan is not contrite. It is not ashamed, either. Unabashedly, it instead is shamelessly slapping its lapses and failures on others’ faces. And instead of correcting its damnable act of utterly letting down the woefully stricken populace in its dire adversity, it is perceptibly trying cunningly to deflect the public attention from its own sin with devious contrivances. Not surprisingly has it thus leaped to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s foolish blurting about the controversial Kalabagh Dam. His folly is unforgivable, though. He could have defied getting drawn into the controversy by shrugging off the provocation dismissively by insisting this was no time to rake up such disputed issues as entire attention should remain focussed on the stricken people’s rescue, relief and rehabilitation. But he did not. And this has come as a boon to crafty ANP clan that was desperately looking for something to help it divert public mind from its spectacular collapse in salvaging the stricken populace from its colossal catastrophe even a wee bit. But it is in for a spectacular disappointment, too. Its collapse is total and monumental to paper over with any devious device in its bag. Its betrayal and abandonment of the stricken people is too stark and too contemptible. Disdain for the clan is writ large on every stricken face and scorn for it is swirling on every stricken tongue.** It may have launched relief operations, but only on paper. It may have set up relief camps, but only on paper. It may have released bundles of cash for assistance of the stricken people, but only on paper. On the ground, only the clan’s absence is deafeningly conspicuous. **The nightly news bulletins of news channels shows the stricken bemoaning the clan’s absolute apathy to their saddening predicaments. And this shifty ANP clan may not have this time the leeway it had had luckily when the army launched its operation in Swat and Malakand to flush out Swati thug Fazlullah and his vile brigands. The operation triggered a massive displacement of the region’s residents. But there were many relief hands out in the field to mitigate the lot of those internally-displaced. Local philanthropists were there to voluntarily take care of them. **Apart from the centre, state agencies of Punjab and Sindh actively worked for their relief. International relief agencies too strived hard for their amelioration. And all through, the ANP clan kept only dishing out the progressive tally of the internally-displaced, doing no field work for their betterment. **This time too it is at the same game, more or less. It is only relaying losses estimates, doing no mentionable relief work. But the trick may not let it off the hook as it was that time. For almost whole of the country being in the destructive sweep of flash flooding, there are no spare internal relief hands to help the KP stricken populace in its catastrophe. International response is as yet also lukewarm to their calamity. Given this, the clan now stands a little chance of getting away with its sinful failure of caring for its domain’s stricken populace. Palpably, it is only greed and avarice that spur this ANP clan, altruism and public service being no part of it at all. Throughout, this has been its distinctive trait, that may put it this time round in its rightful place - in the dock. The clan will know this when the waters recede and the stricken return to their ruined homes and their destroyed lives. And they will insist on knowing why has it been so unmindful and so spurning of their ordeals. Interestingly, latching on Gilani’s controversial Kalabagh outpouring, Haji Adeel, the ANP ruling pack’s anointed ideologue, reprimanded him to behave like the country’s, not Punjab’s, prime minister. But who will tell this eminence that since long the KP residents have reduced in their thoughts this ANP clan into the status of mayors and councilors of Peshawar? Now even that Peshawar principality’s satrapy of the clan is seemingly at risk. The clan must know this.