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August 2, 2005, 10:16pm
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Re: The Ultimate Losers in Pakistan!
LastOfTheDinosaurs:
Only fools will be deceived by these concocted figures. The ethnicities of some of the above personalities have been mis-presented e.g. Mir Balkhk Sher Mazari, General Ayub Khan, General Yahaya Khan, Farooq Khan Laghari, Nawaz Sharif with power-basis in Punjab have been re-ethnized as Baluchis, Pathans, Kashmiris, etc. (as Punjabis never existed )
Also some famous (notorious?) names are missing from the above list e.g. Ghulam Mohammad, Gen. Ziaul-Haq, Rafiq Tarar, etc.
Moreover, it doesn’t need a rocket scientist to know that majority of non-Punjabi heads of state were just lameducks at the mercy of the powerful establishment, which sometimes ruled directly and sometimes from behind the screen. It is not a question of puppet heads of state but the type of consitution and overll distribution of power. Senate has no powers compared to N…ational Assembly where one province has almost absolute dominance. Look at the all-powerful bureaucracy and the core commanders formation, the actual ruling clique.
Musharaf is a lame duck? And if the ruler of the state is a lame duck controlled by Punjabis… Then who prey tell, are these all powerful Punjabis specificaly who rule the roost?