EITHER a fool or a political Einstein would have opted to govern Pakistan at this critical juncture.
The country is facing the monumental task of building a nation battered by war on the state by internal enemies. Terrorism has traumatised Pakistani state and society.
The web of international conspiracies has exacerbated the institutional decay and the economic meltdown. The task is of the magnitude of 1947, if not greater. On the one hand, international and political and economic wolves have gathered in and outside Pakistan to hunt in packs.
This wicked assembly has the objective to break the only Islamic nuclear power into submission.
The country is facing leadership bankruptcy, besides economic mismanagement, corruption and inflation — all combining to suck the people’s blood.
The political and social fibre of the country is about to break as it faces extremism: both religious and ethnic.
The leadership in both government and opposition camps lacks vision and the political acumen to pull the country out of its quagmire.
The current set of leaders knows that they lack the capacity to guide Pakistan out of its current impasse.
They seem to have agreed that the PPP would remain in power for five years and then it would facilitate the PML(N) to rule for the next five.
No Pakistani politician wants a powerful and independent judiciary and media. So whenever the judiciary and the media assert their power and independence by forcing the government to obey the dictates of rule of law, both the government and the opposition jointly create an issue (for example, the rumpus over the appointment of judges).
The purpose usually seems to be to divert public attention from real issues. May God give us another Mohammad Ali Jinnah or Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
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