AZADI DHARNA INQLAB DHARNA
DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR DEFENSE OF PAKISTAN
Imran Khan's Azadi Dharna is creating a mayhem in Islamabad. The same is the case with TUQ's Inqalab Dharna. It is quite clear now that things are going to get messy and whether the incumbent government stays or not, the country is going to enter a period of instability of uncertain length. I do not know about TUQ. He is a newly converted foreign citizen who may be at pains to please his new home land, but as far as IK is concerned, his words and actions up to now show that he is a naïve person bordering to be gullible. Of late, he has become very desperate. His friends, cronies and sycophants have propelled him on a path that results in his political suicide. His words and actions may also be extremely harmful for Pakistan, especially regarding its nuclear capability. Recently US and UK ambassadors have started commenting on Pakistan's present circumstances, though ostensibly in support of democracy.
US, UK, India, Israel and many other western countries are desperately in search of an opportunity to get an excuse to roll back or gain control over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. TUQ and IK by their unruly Dharnas are providing these countries some very valid reasons to move a resolution in the UN Security Council whereby it is demanded that, because of unstable conditions, Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is liable to captured by extremists. It should therefore, be removed from Government of Pakistan's control and given under the protection and control of an “International Peace Force”. The resolution will be passed in a jiffy by the Asian and African men of straw sitting in UNSC, just like resolutions on Iraq and Afghanistan.
There is no need to mention what Army men this “International Peace Force” will consist of. They are already sitting and waiting to take over in the “Largest Embassy of the World”, in Islamabad! This is a clear and present danger to the nuclear capability of our country and its control.
At this point of time, it is of no use to appeal to TUQ or IK or any other political element. The two gentlemen have, quite un-politically, burnt their boats. While other politicians are feigning to make them understand are, in reality, relishing PM Nawaz Sharif's predicament. There is no such thing as sincerity in the Machiavellian politics of our country.
What is to be done under this precarious situation is the most undesirable. It is my humble suggestion that COAS must immediately come to the rescue of the Civilian Government in the prime interest of the country as per provisions of our Constitution. COAS must at once send a secret message to both TUQ and IK to halt and dismiss their Dharnas then and there, otherwise, Civilian Government will be given a free hand to deal with them severely with tacit army support. No military take over and no Martial Law.
As regards TUQ, his Pakistani Passport must be immediately canceled and he be deported to his new found homeland Canada with a strong protest note to the Canadian Government about irresponsible behaviour of its new citizen.
IK must be told in plain words to attend NA session, and participate in the proceedings of the newly formed Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms and voice his grievances there, which is the proper forum. Also, that is the only way he can save himself from his political suicide.
PM Nawaz Sharif must also stop imagining himself as a Monarch and should attend NA or Senate session at least twice a week like a “banday da puttar”, and what ever announcements he makes to the media must be made on the floor of the house. That is the way an elected PM must behave. He must consider himself answerable to the Parliament. He must also restrict his religious stints to a minimum. He himself must give due importance to the Sovereign Elected Parliament if he want others to respect it.
The biggest problems of our country is extremism and intolerance. Not that we are extremists and intolerant in religious matters only, the present crisis shows that we are extremists and intolerant in all affairs of life including politics. It is only extremism that TUQ and IK and their supporters are stretching the right to protest to the extreme point of jeopardizing the well being of our people and defense of our country. And the PM has utilized his exemption from attending the Parliament to the other extreme of not attending NA and Senate session at all.
Doctors tell us that every food is a drug. And every drug is a poison. This means, excess of every thing is bad. Excess of “Azadi” especially under present circumstances is also bad.
Fayyaz Mahmood
DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR DEFENSE OF PAKISTAN
Imran Khan's Azadi Dharna is creating a mayhem in Islamabad. The same is the case with TUQ's Inqalab Dharna. It is quite clear now that things are going to get messy and whether the incumbent government stays or not, the country is going to enter a period of instability of uncertain length. I do not know about TUQ. He is a newly converted foreign citizen who may be at pains to please his new home land, but as far as IK is concerned, his words and actions up to now show that he is a naïve person bordering to be gullible. Of late, he has become very desperate. His friends, cronies and sycophants have propelled him on a path that results in his political suicide. His words and actions may also be extremely harmful for Pakistan, especially regarding its nuclear capability. Recently US and UK ambassadors have started commenting on Pakistan's present circumstances, though ostensibly in support of democracy.
US, UK, India, Israel and many other western countries are desperately in search of an opportunity to get an excuse to roll back or gain control over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. TUQ and IK by their unruly Dharnas are providing these countries some very valid reasons to move a resolution in the UN Security Council whereby it is demanded that, because of unstable conditions, Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is liable to captured by extremists. It should therefore, be removed from Government of Pakistan's control and given under the protection and control of an “International Peace Force”. The resolution will be passed in a jiffy by the Asian and African men of straw sitting in UNSC, just like resolutions on Iraq and Afghanistan.
There is no need to mention what Army men this “International Peace Force” will consist of. They are already sitting and waiting to take over in the “Largest Embassy of the World”, in Islamabad! This is a clear and present danger to the nuclear capability of our country and its control.
At this point of time, it is of no use to appeal to TUQ or IK or any other political element. The two gentlemen have, quite un-politically, burnt their boats. While other politicians are feigning to make them understand are, in reality, relishing PM Nawaz Sharif's predicament. There is no such thing as sincerity in the Machiavellian politics of our country.
What is to be done under this precarious situation is the most undesirable. It is my humble suggestion that COAS must immediately come to the rescue of the Civilian Government in the prime interest of the country as per provisions of our Constitution. COAS must at once send a secret message to both TUQ and IK to halt and dismiss their Dharnas then and there, otherwise, Civilian Government will be given a free hand to deal with them severely with tacit army support. No military take over and no Martial Law.
As regards TUQ, his Pakistani Passport must be immediately canceled and he be deported to his new found homeland Canada with a strong protest note to the Canadian Government about irresponsible behaviour of its new citizen.
IK must be told in plain words to attend NA session, and participate in the proceedings of the newly formed Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms and voice his grievances there, which is the proper forum. Also, that is the only way he can save himself from his political suicide.
PM Nawaz Sharif must also stop imagining himself as a Monarch and should attend NA or Senate session at least twice a week like a “banday da puttar”, and what ever announcements he makes to the media must be made on the floor of the house. That is the way an elected PM must behave. He must consider himself answerable to the Parliament. He must also restrict his religious stints to a minimum. He himself must give due importance to the Sovereign Elected Parliament if he want others to respect it.
The biggest problems of our country is extremism and intolerance. Not that we are extremists and intolerant in religious matters only, the present crisis shows that we are extremists and intolerant in all affairs of life including politics. It is only extremism that TUQ and IK and their supporters are stretching the right to protest to the extreme point of jeopardizing the well being of our people and defense of our country. And the PM has utilized his exemption from attending the Parliament to the other extreme of not attending NA and Senate session at all.
Doctors tell us that every food is a drug. And every drug is a poison. This means, excess of every thing is bad. Excess of “Azadi” especially under present circumstances is also bad.
Fayyaz Mahmood
