 Burning Karachi
It is a
pity that
in Pakistan no body rules
By Ali Ashraf Khan
June 22, 2004
iranian.com
KARACHI -- Nero played on his lyre while Rome was
burning and this is what is actually happening in Karachi. Karachi
burns
and
our politicians
are busy in power politics rather then finding a solution for the
burning Karachi. The Mutheda Qaumi Movement has as usual given
an ultimatum with a 3 months time schedule to the government to
follow the conditionalities of their coalition arrangement or else
there will be parting of the ways between the government and MQM.
To say the least this is not the time to issue ultimatums
and that too giving the other side a lease of life for 3 months.
Pakistan
at the moment is passing through a crisis, which is more serious
and severs than the crises at the birth of the two dominions. The
political leaders and the rulers are alike advised to come to the
task, there is not a moment, not a minute nor an hour to be lost.
It is a pity that at this juncture our Chief Minister
has come out with a statement that he has been allowed a free hand
in Sindh.
That being so, what is the delay, why does he not extend his full
hand to arrest the decay in the law and order situation in Karachi.
This is not the time to issue statements and play politics for
power,
according to the Chief Minister, he has got
not only the
full support of the federal government but also of the entire
armed forces under the command of General Pervez Musharraf, the
President
of Pakistan.
Only sincerity of purpose and the will to arrest
the situation is required, this sincerity of purpose and will
to serve
Pakistan is an utopia which has never existed after the death
of Liaquat Ali Khan. After the death of the first Prime Minister,
Pakistan has been the hot bed of intrigues, so much so that a minister
declared that the country can not afford to educate the masses,
there is hardly any difference between the policies of the government
then and the policies of the government now. This policy has to
change.
Nothing for self has to be the motto of the people
who claims to be the servants of the people. Inspite of all the
tall
claims being made in the media and the Ministry of Information
specially, the situation is grim. Inspite of tall claims of every
ruler it is not only the life of every man, which is in danger
but the life of the country is at stake, come then, let us to the
task of saving the country, who lives if Pakistan dies.
This situation
existed earlier also and has been the subject matter of discussions
in the All Parties Conference convened by Mr. Aftab Shaban Mirani,
the then Chief Minister of Sindh, in which every body spoke including
myself to create harmony and unity between the people, but at the
same time a signal was given by the ruling Mafia by hijacking a
Pakland Cement bus etc., after a few years on 19th June 1995 Dawn wrote a scathing editorial "As Karachi burns and bleeds." And
Karachi continues to burn and bleed even today, so much so that
the Corps Commander of Karachi is also not safe and he had to
take shelter behind discretion as a better part of valor.
While India
rejoiced on 15th August 1947 celebrating the birth of the nation,
Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation, not only kept
himself aloof but joined Hussein Shaheed Suharwardi, the then
Chief Minister of Bengal to save the shedding of blood in the streets
of Calcutta.
The need of the hour is this kind of spirit in the
politicians of Pakistan, unless they do it, there is no survival.
Our politicians have been crying hoarse about not only induction
of democracy in Pakistan but also its failure, they do not realize
that democracy is not in the genesis of the people of Pakistan,
which is also not the panacea of all ills and curses that afflict
Pakistan.
Pakistan needs at the moment a selfless despot, who
is benevolent and only he can deliver the goods as Joseph II did
in
Austria, and let the fools contend. One of the aspects of unrest
in present situation is linked with Wana operation, American
war against an imaginary enemy in which Pakistan has been placed
as
frontline state, under the newly coined American terminology
of friends or foe to suit American interest only.
 There was a time
when Vice President Johnson of America invited a camel driver
Mr. Bashir from Pakistan as his personal guest. It was very difficult
for a high browed Ambassador of Pakistan Mr. Aziz Ahmad to be
present
at the airport because the Vice President was also there to receive
the camel driver from Pakistan as his special guest and now is
the time when the President of America is out to clash with the
civilization of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The law of
nature is that only one man rules, whatever the form of government
may
be. In America the President of America rules, in England it
is the Prime Minister. In Egypt it is the President
even though there is a Prime Minister, and so is it in
Turkey. In India it is the Prime Minister who rules. It is a
pity that
in Pakistan no body rules, and the nation suffers in consequence.
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