Re: The Balkanization of Pakistan
I used to advocate rule of law and supremacy of institutions....We all got carried away by the events of last few months and people like Imran made us dream.....candle light vigils were being used as a way of protesting.....people were putting flowers outside defiant judges residences.....we all believed Pakistani nation is now matured......can stand above the politics of religious/ethnic hate....
But all this was done by a few elite/educated class.....the masses in a matter of hours brought us back to reality......by setting ablaze everything which came in their way (big contrast to candle lights)....
People will continue to elect criminal and hate mongers.....they want people in power who can assisst them with their crimes.....thana kutchery stuff....no decent man has any chance of getting elected.....It's high time we should come back to reality.....
I am visiting China regularly for last 12 years and saw it transforming......their system is a big danda for trouble makers......I think is the only system for an over populated jahil population.....
Let's not get carried away by western democratic models.....all the guppers here come from educated/elite class who have lost touch with ground reality in Pakistan....
Dear Yazdi, don't be pessimistic. I think we are seeing the twilight of Pakistan's gloom. If this Republic survives this storm and I think it will, I think we will emerge as a truly great nation (atleast by 3rd world standards). The chief Justice of Pakistan, the journalists and NGOs and upstanding politicians such as Imran Khan, Aitzaz Ahsan, Roedad Khan among others, civil society are to me signs of a young society making a breakthrough in its conscience.
You are speaking of emulating a closed efficient and brutal system. Because that's what China is. In any event we are no stranger to the system. We are no stranger to it at all. Even in our neighborhood we have seen examples of that system in Iran, Saudi, Afghanistan. This will and should not sit well with Pakistanis. We have known better. And abstractly, our founding fathers have left us with a sense of right and wrong that going towards an efficient system would be disastrous t the nation.
Yes, we saw the dark side of a population in chaos and anarchy in some cities and areas of Pakistan. But there is a sublime message under it to the rulers and the establishment.
Don't forget that when the century's worst disaster hit northern Pakistan in 2005, we also saw the best of us. No rapes, anarchy, chaos, stealing and mad mobs anywhere. People helping people, neighbors coming out, prayers and charity from all quarters of the nation. It was one moment we could be proud of, how the nation acted under that extreme disaster. Unlike New Orleans in the world's most powerful nation.