Re: Todays Pakistan…
THE government and its sycophants are blaming the chief justice for playing politics. If an army chief can be a politician, then why should it bother people if the chief justice likes to copy his style? If the army house and the general headquarters can be the centre of politicking, why can’t the chief justice’s residence? Why are there two standards for the army chief and the judiciary chief?
I have seen Gen Musharraf’s interview to Aaj TV and he was on the defensive for the most part. He said the “masses of Karachi demonstrated their political mandate in favour of the MQM, which would not tolerate the dominance of opposition parties at any cost.”
If we go by his logic, does this mean that people in other parts of the country where other parties are dominant should not tolerate advances of the MQM and stop them by force? On May 12, the MQM lost its moral high ground for good. The MQM has proved once again that it is merely a pressure group that can only play the politics of agitation, chaos and violence. By aligning himself with the MQM, the army chief has embarrassed his office. Is there a supreme military council where we can send a reference against the army chief ?
The MQM has once again proved itself to be a pawn of the military establishment. It is irrelevant what linguistic group the army chief belongs to. The military’s survival depends upon divide and rule. Both the MQM and the MMA are perfect apparatus in the hands of the military and they dance to GHQ’s tunes every time.
It is time for General Musharraf to start looking for an exit strategy, something they don’t normally have in the DGMO office. For the past couple of months, there are articles in major US newspapers to prepare for life after Musharraf.
What Musharraf calls the art of walking the tight rope is considered ‘munafiqat’ in every part of the world. When you walk in the middle of the road, you get hit by traffic from both directions.
Only time will tell whether Musharraf’s fate will be similar to Ayub’s or Zia’s. In the meantime, as an Urdu-speaking person, I hang my head in shame at the leadership of Altaf Hussain and Pervez Musharaf.
ASIM ALAVI
Southfield, MI, USA
http://dawn.com/2007/05/28/letted.htm