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Deals and More Deals: A Sure Way
To Ultimate Destruction
If you tell one lie, you have to tell
hundreds of other lies to cover your one lie. This maxim is
truer about the deals that members of ruling elite make in
Pakistan than the axiom of telling hundreds of lies to cover the
first lie.
What a shame!
Before it was Rehman Malik running back and
forth to Abu Dhabi and London to cut a secret deal between
Benazir Bhutto and Musharraf and now he is shuttling between
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan with special messages from President
Zardari to Shah Abdullah to reach to some new consensus between
general Musharraf and Zardari regime with the guarantees of
Saudi King.
When BB cut secret deal with general
Musharraf in Abu Dhabi we warned her that she was falling below
her dignity to cut a secret deal with general Musharraf and its
consequences won’t be good for her and for Pakistan.
Now, BB is dead, general Musharraf was
removed from power about a year ago, Mr. Zardari replaced him as
President, but the details coming out of various Pandora’s boxes
of various deals are not coming to and end.
Had BB stayed away from making secret deal
and let Musharraf die his natural political death Pakistan would
have come out much better. The people of Pakistan won’t have to
go through what they are going through because of these dirty
back and forth deals to protect one criminal or the other for
one reason or the other.
Musharraf is not worth a toilet paper like
what he was used by MQM and many international forces to make
Pakistan a circus for political tug of war for these internal
and external forces.
Instead of cutting new deals with him, it
would be better for everyone if Musharraf pays for the crimes he
committed against the constitution, the state and the people of
Pakistan. It would be better for MQM, general Musharraf’s key
benefactor, PPP, general Musharraf’s key NRO beneficiary, and
for the political health of rest of Pakistan to let things
straighten up according to the letters and spirit of the
constitution.
These endless back door deals will only make
things more difficult for everyone. The political system will
become muddier, restlessness will grow among the people, system,
which everyone is trying to save, will become more polluted.
Musharraf is a wolf in the lamb’s clothes,
chosen by historical contradictions of Pakistan, for sacrifice.
It is only his sacrifice which can save Pakistan from falling
apart as a state. Of course, justice done to Musharraf will
create some uproar in MQM, because he is their guy, but its long
term effect to improve the health of ailing Pakistan will be
tremendous.
So please take a pity on Pakistan, and the
people of Pakistan, and stay away from cutting anymore secret
deals with anyone.
Let the law take its course, whosoever’s neck
falls under the axe of law, let it go. It is about time to get
out of pretensions and behave as a healthy, law abiding, and a
just nation. Otherwise, we all know how long this circus or
Pakistan can last together! Why do we want to see the end?
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