No news is good news. The mainstream media sing songs orchestrated by someone sitting far in the shadows. Social media is rarely reliable. The only truth was the T-20 World Cup. Pakistan was left out of the battle after succumbing to a shameful defeat at the hands of a cricketing baby. That is the truth.
The best bet is not to watch or listen to the news, for if you are tempted to shout foul, you are liable to be booked for insulting a holy someone. In this God-granted Islamic Republic of Pakistan, gods have overgrown; humans have shrunk.
The easily excitable and myopic leadership here must review their attitude towards life, have trust in God, and place ‘Pakistan First’ in their priorities for real this time, unlike the mere slogan-mongering of the previous power brokers. Life is short. It often does not allow enough time to make amends. The torture of regrets, however, is forever
‘The law of insult’ in a much-trumpeted democracy is a sheer affront to human dignity and the spirit of the Constitution of Pakistan. It might fully cater to the psychological and egoistic needs of the ultra-sensitive, the royals, and the schizophrenic. Still, it is unjust, could be stretched to any limits, and is open to gross misuse. The gods, however, insist on usurping the rights allowed to ordinary citizens since the first century AH— the right to question the highest in the land. It is atrocious.
The Muslim rulers of today will be remembered for their queer conduct both at home and abroad. In the past, people bought slaves to serve them and mercenaries to ensure their security. Today, rich Muslims spend billions to select masters who could rule them. This is the crux of their foreign policy. Instead of sharing power with their country-mates, they concede total control to a foreign master.
At home, they are ferocious tyrants with zero tolerance for dissent. We treat our people as slaves, sub-humans, herds of sheep as if we had conquered or acquired them. How could we be such terrible sadists and miserable masochists at the same time? The rulers consider the plentiful resources nature provides as exclusively their own. They dole out a fraction of that to people and think they own them also. Revolutions can only correct this outrage or God’s hand that fell on the Pharaohs or Nimrods.
In Pakistan, the situation is the opposite. Our politicians, rulers and the departments, judiciary, the military, and the police all live on peoples’ resources, the taxes they pay, the food they grow, and the industry they run with their sweat and blood. They have just no right to treat people as their subjects and slaves. They are, in fact, the peoples’ servants in every derivative of the word. How can they frame rules asking the masters not to question the servants? If a servant fails to perform deserves to be admonished. That applies to all the categories of servants in any position of responsibility.
Pakistan is supposed to be a democratic country. We have a constitution that guarantees rights to every Pakistani. It fully protects the rights of government servants to prevent their exploitation. If someone is guilty of violating the Constitution, the courts and courts alone must decide the matter. In a democracy, a woodcutter’s son can rise to be the president of the USA, and a nobody’s son could become the prime minister of Pakistan. The woodcutter’s son never tried to behave like a king of his country; a nonentity’s son also has no right to act like one.
My friend Shabbir from the UK sounded utterly despairing. “Pakistan is finished; there is no hope,” he said. I told him, “Not me. I will never lose hope in Pakistan. I firmly believe in the truth of its birth: It was ordered by the Prophet (PBUH).” All those who were responsible for its dismemberment in 1971, Bhutto, Mujib, and Indira, met with unenviably ignominious ends as they had sinned against Pakistan. It is not a human judgment. It is the verdict of history.
The present enemies of Pakistan will also meet a similar fate. There should be no doubt that those who have ruthlessly sucked the blood of the people of Pakistan and committed untold heinous crimes against them – from murder, grabbing, and looting to violating female modesty, will face the wrath of Allah here and hereafter. They have rubbished the law and made a mockery of the Constitution. They have destroyed institutions and created a culture of lawlessness and might be right. They have openly nurtured relations with the enemies of Pakistan and Islam. They only accord cosmetic treatment to Shariah. Their men and their women consider immorality, as understood in Islamic tradition, a mere ultra-fundamentalism. They make no bones about it. One of them said that sexual relations before marriage are perfectly normal, blatantly mocking the Quranic injunction.
The Americans are no doubt a beautiful people. They are tremendously loving, courteous, law-abiding, cultured, caring, sharing, and down-to-earth humans. They are innocent in many ways, and most are ignorant of the life around them. Most are born, live, and die without visiting outside their states. They depend on the news fed to them by the multi-billion dollar electronic and print media industry controlled by the ‘Deep State.’ When in power, they change. They are over-awed by the colossal military power of the USA. Arrogance overwhelms their wisdom.
Their foreign policy ignores the guidelines laid by their founding fathers. Their major failure as a nation is in their dealings with nonwhite and non-Christian countries. They have constantly been humiliated in the East. Still, they continue to reinforce failures. They leave when no more is in need of others, abandoning their allies in limbo. They did it after the Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan (later naively falling into the same trap). They deserted their darling Musharraf for Benazir and then discarded her, too.
The easily excitable and myopic leadership here must review their attitude towards life, have trust in God, and place ‘Pakistan First’ in their priorities for real this time, unlike the mere slogan-mongering of the previous power brokers. Life is short. It often does not allow enough time to make amends. The torture of regrets, however, is forever.
