On Monday Dawn printed an excellent letter raising some very good points about the state of affairs after the emergency and what the public is thinking and how certain quarters make things look.
There has been typical and predictable response to his letter since.But he said whats true, hats off.
read this;
The country is normal
PUBLIC response to protest calls of political parties against the imposition of emergency and the PCO is ridiculously poor. Common man’s life in the country is unaffected. Marketplaces are wide open, public transport plying in full and shoppers are busy buying what they need unhampered. Similarly government offices as also private sector organizations and schools, colleges and universities are functioning normally.
So, a handful of lawyers, journalists, human rights activists and hired workers of political parties, I understand, cannot make any difference to President Pervaiz Musharraf’s programme of what he calls smooth and peaceful transition to democracy.
People, by and large, if one looks at the ground realities, are not willing to go with Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. What one reads in newspapers about agitations and demonstrations is in contradiction to what one sees in the streets, which otherwise are peaceful. Issuing statements by political parties and individuals against emergency and PCO and magnifying agitations and demonstrations that are taking place on a ridiculously small scale cannot make any difference to President Musharraf.
In my view Benazir Bhutto has lost much of her charm, firstly, because of her absence from the country for a long period, involvement in various cases and what is called a deal with President Musharraf and, finally, a revolt in her own family, with Fatima Bhutto in the lead.
Nawaz Sharif exile, too, has largely faded him from the political scene of Pakistan.
Freedom of the press is something which cannot be properly assimilated in our society. Objective reporting of events is totally absent. A classic case in point: There is hardly any report in the print and electronic media about the poor response to protest calls and the normalcy of life in the country.
In the circumstances, President Musharraf appears to be the people’s choice. People look united in giving him the opportunity of continuing the country’s march to progress.
BURHANUDDIN
Karachi
country was normal even when according to Musharraf Pakistan was bankrupt and hell was breaking loose.