Ruling coalition on the rocks
Source: The Nation
NEW YORK – Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif has threatened to pull his party out of the governing coalition if it does not decide by Friday (today) about the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, but said he will not bring about the collapse of the government.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Sharif said that the sacking of the judges last year had shaken the foundations of the country and it was necessary to restore them to their jobs.
“We will not try to bring the government down,” Sharif said in remarks published on Thursday. “But of course we then have no choice but to sit in the Opposition.”
Sharif said Zardari had earlier assured him that the judges would be reinstated within 24 hours of Musharraf’s impeachment. “We supported him on impeachment. It’s now his turn to support us on the reinstatement of judges.”
About the next president, Sharif said it should be someone from outside the two main parties. He has put forward the name of Ataullah Khan Mengal, a well-known politician from Balochistan.
Violence amid Political Wrangling: Pakistan Zindabad
Another typical day in Pakistan. 2 suicide bombers, blowing themselves up, almost at the same time. And who are the targets? Factory workers at Pakistan’s main ordinance factory. As of this moment, the death toll has been reported to be 70. The families of the dead have only one person to thank for this tragedy… Musharraf.
I am at a total loss of words right now. My heart goes out to those who lost their lives, and their families. I try hard not to think about the government, or the ex-president, or the baboon who is the US president. I actually have to make an effort… because I can feel blood rushing to my head, a vein in my forehead pulsating. Honestly, I feel like blowing someone’s head off right now. Just like those terrorists, I want to kill too.
I want to kill those who are sitting in comfy chairs in air conditioned rooms, having a hundred people waiting for their command to serve them, discussing how to grab more power. Wrangling over who will be the next president. In other words, who will be mutually beneficial to every one in power to loot and plunder this already raped nation of ignorant fools.
Pakistan – the land of the pure. My elders gave up everything they had to come live in this country. They must’ve had high hopes. Almost unrealistic. They had hoped to finally be able to live in a country they could call their own. A muslim country where they would be proud citizens of a muslim nation. A place where Islam would be practiced without any fear or prejudice.
Islam? What Islam? It has taken us just 60 years to forget what Islam is. Islam is peace. And we kill innocent people in the name of this pure religion that prohibits all such actions. I keep trying to come up with a better word… but ignorat – JAHIL – is the only word I manage to come up with. Yes… a JAHIL nation.
I sit and I wait like millions of others. There must be SOME outcome of all this. Will Pakistan cease to exist? Will we be the next Iraq? Or will be simple self-destruct, like we are trying so hard? Only Allah knows.
Pakistan Zindabad.
Musharraf Scampers
Another era of army dictatorship has come to an end in Pakistan; and for once, the dictator has stepped down himself. Musharraf’s resignation, amid the preparations of his impeachment by the ruling coalition, has been getting mixed reactions, no doubt. I, for one, would ike to see him impeached, tried, brought to justice, and hanged. Yes! Hanged. And that wouldn’t even be close to what I think he deserves.
I remember back in 99, when he took over, it was during my first semester in college. I heard the news from the Pakistani’s on campus when I went out for dinner that day. And yes, I was happy. In fact, I was excited. Very excited that Pakistan had gotten rid of a corrupt and looting government of Nawaz Sharif, even if that meant a dictatorship; a dictatorship that promised to hold elections in a very short time and let go of power.
But I guess I am no different from the rest of Pakistanis, am I? I believed what we were told. I ignored the past, and was swayed by the false promises; exactly like our nation has been doing for the past 61 years. Ignorant and stupid as we are. And as we watched, Musharraf followed in the footsteps of the former military dictators, the absolute power getting to his head, and he just grabbed on to it.
Amid mounting tension with India, with our forces amassed on the border, despite Musharraf’s trip to Agra earlier to make peace, he managed to sit on the shoulders of his core commanders, doing their bidding, for he had no choice. Musharraf was not a powerful dictator. He had not come into power on his own. If we look back, I am sure you’ll remember how he grabbed power. It wasn’t actually him who deposed Nawaz Sharif, it were the army elements loyal to him. Musharraf had simply gotten off his flight and told that, hey, you are the new president. And those who made him the president, controlled him as well. But only until September 11, 2001.
His fate changed that day. No matter how bad that day was for America, it was the luckiest day of Musharraf’s life. In an instant, he became the best friend of the most powerful man in the world. A buffoon, yes, but most powerful still. Bush, who when asked during his 2000 campaign if he knew who the president of Pakistan was, had said that he didn’t know, “Some military general?” I guess that’s what his answer had been. And now Musharraf found himself showered with favors.
He was accepted by the international community at last. Pakistan was re-accepted into the BCommonwealth, having had her membership revoked after Musharraf’s coup in 1999. The sanctions placed on Pakistan for the 1998 nuclear tests and the 1999 military take over were removed. And Pakistan was given the status of the most important non-NATO ally by the US. It made him strong at home, because people thought he was responsible for everything good happening to the country, and it made him strong internationally. And above all, he didn’t need his core commanders’ support anymore; he had America backing him now. And Musharraf was a powerful Dictator at last.
But then he lost it. Musharraf’s idea of “Moderate Enlightenment” was the stupidest thing he could’ve done. The idea was to please the west. I don’t claim to be a man of faith, but a muslim, I am. And it is my strong belief that a muslim nation cannot prosper if it lets go off it’s faith. Musharraf made every attempt to eradicate Islam from the society; all to please the Americans. The outcome of his policies on religion are a totally different debate, but that is where he went wrong.
That is what made him most enemies, killing Pakistanis inside Pakistan, kidnapping muslims inside Pakistan and handing them over to the US, to be sent to Guantanamo, carrying out operations against people of his own country and houses of worship, the mosques…. all to please his masters, the leaders of the free world.
Musharraf was an asshole. IS an asshole. He writes very boldly about how Nawaz Sharif was loosing it and getting rid of all army chiefs who disagreed with him. And it was because of that that Musharraf had to come into power. And what did he do himself? Dismissed the Supreme Court judges because they were going to rule against his being elected president??
I’ll just end this rambling by saying that I am not one of those who are happy that Musharraf resigned, nothing better could be expected from that coward, I am just sad.. to see what direction Pakistan is moving into.
The Setting Moon
The Setting Moon over Bahria Town, Islamabad, Pakistan - photo by self 
American Terrorism
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui - just 1 example of American Terrorism
ISI? Terrorist?
I know my comments on this are a little late… but it has happened.
The preparation to include Pakistan in the axis of evil has begun already. Reports that Pakistan’s ISI has strong links with Taliban is out, with substantial “intelligence” from the CIA. Also, it has been implicated that the blasts outside the Indian embassy last month had ISI involvement.
In our day, the media has become such a powerful tool, especially in the hands of the most powerful country in the world, it has become the strongest brain washing instrument ever created. All America has to do is publish a story, based on lies… totally… and the world will go around believing it.
But before I elaborate on those comments, lets just analyze, that IF ISI does have links with the Taliban still, why would that be? Now there’s a difficult question. WHY would Pakistan have ANY interest what so ever in the Taliban? Especially, since America has so much against them. Hmm… I guess the fact that the Taliban who were in power before 9/11 were all Pakistan educated afghan refugees from the soviet-afghan war time does not really matter. Or the fact that when Afghanistan fell into civil war after the soviets were driven out and Pakistan supported the Taliban to come into power and drive out the warring warlords doesn’t matter either. Or the fact that the Taliban government later was practically run by the ISI is not of much value. And also that the current government in Afghanistan is very pro India, Pakistan’s greatest enemy, which places rivals on either side of Pakistan’s borders is also not a very strong argument. And lastly, Taliban were CREATED by Pakistan, with American money and training… I guess that shouldn’t matter either.
Whose interests does America expect Pakistan to protect? Their own or America’s? Pakistan realizes now that siding with the US in the so called war against terror was not a very smart decision after all, because in doing so, Pakistan has managed to bring the war right inside their homes. Every time a Pakistani citizen returns home alive, it is an achievement. A blessing. A blessing not to have been blown up by a suicide bomber while dining at a restaurant, or while grocery shopping, or while coming back from work.
The US does not see Pakistan as a major economic power in the future. The country is riddled with corruption, ignorance and lawlessness. People, in general, are totally apathetic to what happens now. It’s like a jungle out there now. Survival of the fittest. It doesn’t matter anymore that it’s OUR jungle, and we have to take care of it… it’s MY jungle now… “I” have to survive, even if that means killing every other animal in the jungle.
If Pakistan continues on the way it has been since the past 7 years, the Mushy way, the predictions of the 1947 Indian and British politicians will soon come true. The country will cease to exist… it WILL fall. Collapse internally. Or bombed out of existence. Based on American propaganda against it. Which has started already. Allegations against the ISI are just a beginning.
“Saddam has weapons of mass destruction!” we all remember that, don’t we? And once it was all done, and hundreds of thousands of people killed, they just looked up and said; “Oh we made a mistake!”
That’s how simple it is. A country that bombed another country to dust based on false intelligence, or should I say, based on a MISTAKE, is accusing us today of having ties to their enemies. How do you know that THAT is not a mistake?
