The perpetrators should at least apologize to this
unfortunate nation!
TTP for killing our 60,000 human beings!
Security Establishment for creating the Frankenstein so they
can prosper financially,
Rishtay karanay wali Khala who got unkil ejaz ul haq’ dada and dadi hooked up
Musharaf for slaughtering the constitution (and for ahmed
raza qusoori)
Taher shah for eye to eye
Nawaz sharif for absconding and looting.
Shaheed bibi for asif!
Asif ali zardari for Asim Hussein!
Iftikhar chaudhry for Arsalan dada
PTI for shireen mazari’ hairdo
MQM for bhai’ singing.
Jamat-e-islami for being themselves
Religious fundoos like fazloo and hafiz saeed for egging us
on for jihad while they are not able to do istinja (translation kurkay
sawab-a-darayn hasil karein) properly (due to girth)! But I digress.
Joking aside, the least this nation deserves is a sincere
apology. Call it truth and reconciliation or Bieber’ intervention, doesn’t matter.
Bottom line is; those who have wronged us need to come sobbing, distraught and
I mean I would like to see fluids emanating, whaling, and looking for pardon!
And let’s not kidd ourselves, we know exactly who our
villains are, thanks primarily to the flow of information. There are many in
Pakistani diaspora who tag media as the problem as well, and quite frankly when
you have the type of implosion of channels like Pakistan does its tough to
maintain a certain level of quality. But I am convinced; we are better off as
citizens because of the access to information.
We as people are extremely resilient, that’s stating the
obvious! Pakistanis as a nation are also not petty. We show by voting in the
same shady characters time and again, that we are forgiving (or dense, take
your pick). But for the sake of whatever is sacred to you the perps, have some
decency and come clean!
The political elite of Pakistan, the security establishment,
the civil bureaucracy, business tycoons, big landlords, anyone and everyone
whose life doesn’t suck like seem-0-thor, needs to be a little ashamed because
rest assured that your cushy life is being subsidized at the expense of the
vast majority of the citizenry.
It’s only fair that all of these jokers appear in person,
with real remorse. We will keep bickering about one another, whether its Army
which is the root-cause of all evil or is it the ineptness of our civilians?
But lets be clear that there is enough blame to go around
and we can not start a fresh unless, there is a wholesale remorse and sincere
apology from those who matter in Pakistan directed towards the 90% masses.
It is extremely dishonest and almost criminal from
intellectuals like Hassan nisar, whom I admire to pieces, but it is absurd to
draw a parallel between an individuals like Nawaz shareef or moonis ilahi or
musharaf raping the country, literally and figuratively both and bhola nagori
who adds a bit of water in my milk. I say its criminal because it dramatizes
the debate and unnecessarily magnifies the problem. We have real problems in
Pakistan but these are not problems that are bigger than what japan went thru
after World War 2 or Sri Lanka more recently. We can triumph provided good people stand up
and be counted!
We can get out of the rut provided that first and foremost, those
who have wronged us, who unfortunately will continue to call the shots, realize
that they have messed up big time!
2nd thing we have to do is make 2 separate
strategies. 1) Long term 2) short-term.
I am not trying to infantilize a complex problem by breaking it down in this simplistic
manner. But surely we need to put out fires like TTP and downward spiral of
economy but we also have to make structural, REAL changes in the way we
approach managing a country of our size. By all means start the dialogue, but
state must realize its strength! 5000 thugs should not overwhelm the state and
the majority! How can we not realize that TTP is literally toying with us and
what they have done to Imran khan by naming him, its no short of poetic
justice.
Its been said a gazillionth time that we can only change for
better if we spend more on education and public healthcare and implement a
robust, independent & empowered local bodies system. Something which none
of the champions of democracy are ready to do. Civil society should expose
them.
The civil society should take strength from the events that
transpired during CJ restoration. I am not a fan of chaudhry but the fact of
the matter is that civil society, media and lawyers decided on something and
ALL movers and shakers either made a beeline or got steamrolled in to
submission.
We can fix our country, we really can! People like Jibran
nasir and absar alam and hamid meer and faisal sabzwari and bilawal zardari and
murad saeed and babar sattar and wussat ullah khan and dr. rizvi and folks from
citizens foundation and millions of others who are honest, talented and
dedicated, want to and can contribute. The trick is to figure out how to bring
these folks at helm of affairs. How?
In simplest of terms, 5 elections on time and I am certain
that we will be much better off in 25 years.
Nigah Buland, Sukhan Dil Nawaz, Jaan Pursouz
Yehi Hai Rakht-e-Safar Mir-e- Karwan Ke Liye
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