It’s like a cheap code of a computer program, if all else fail then coup/emergency. Perhaps it’s a bad nightmare in which a person is having another nightmare and wakes up only to find out that the nightmare is still going on. Pakistan's cursed political history is filled with trail and errors. Military rule followed by rigged elections which results in inept corrupt to the core governments that invite the generals back to power. Unfortunately the code for this program is not written by us but our masters in Langley.
The only thing that is different about the latest emergency deceleration is that it is part of Washington's grand War against Terror plan. Musharraf unable to deliver as per Uncle Sam's standards directed the blame of his incompetence, and disastrous policies on the Chief Justice, and Independent media. Washington obliged, indeed it would, for it has a history of backing illegitimate military rulers and brutal thug dictators all around the world and then easily cleaning up the house once the job is well done, or not so well done for all it cares. A little walk down memory lane, when South Vietnam's president a CIA backed puppet Ngo Dinh Diem was no longer needed for his services he was easily sent packing from planet earth. According to American historian Ellen Hammer, Kennedy was shaken, “the first catholic to become president of Vietnam was assassinated as a direct result of a policy authorized by the first American catholic president". A lesson lies their in for Musharraf for he is smart enough to remember Zia, and the box of mangoes in his C-130.
US wanted an ideal pro-American government in Pakistan and it still thinks it can achieve the agenda, likely so, since Musharraf is in charge at least until he organizes an election in which BB can win enough seats to form government. But what after that? Sooner or later Musharraf will be gone. The divide between people of Pakistan and army is growing dangerously; soon a time will come when military can no longer support puppet governments propped up by US. The US is realizing, as the smart lady "Condi" pointed out "birth pangs of new middle east" are not just birth pangs but rather bangs that are just making it difficult for US to gulp down their appetite for hegemony in middle east,(the new middle east map starts from Pakistan). Instead of taking care of this mess, US is ready to expand the mess from Afghanistan, and Iraq, to Iran, Pakistan and Syria. The resistance is tough, brutal indeed, for it starts with cleaning the house. The anti-American terrorist killing the pro-American terrorist. Who goes to hell and who gets to live there forever we certainly will not find out, but blood is being spilled and more will be spilled. Perhaps Hassan Al Bana said rightly (though I don't agree with his ideology) "History does not write its lines except with blood. Glory does not build its loft edifice except with skulls; Honor and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and corpses".
For Musharraf should have thought about all this before bowing down his head in front of US after 9/11, things would have not been much different but at least Pakistanis would not have been killing fellow countrymen.
Current emergency will bring more carnage to Pakistan. The political parties have lost support amongst the people, the main reason for this is they lack solid political ideologies and are totally undemocratic parties. The polarization that has taken place after 9/11 is between pro and anti American sentiments. People of Pakistan realize fully that American desires are evil to the core; therefore the people of Pakistan will fight for their independence. You can shut down the TV channels and lock up politicians and judges but you can not kill the independent mind. The struggle for independence was started many decades early but is still not complete, and will not be until people of Pakistan are able to live independently with their heads high in honor. Every single Pakistani has an obligation to this nation and to themselves, to keep their minds independent and free. We rather be dead than become a slave of Capitalist global agenda. For their is no substitute for freedom.
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