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Lectures
About Democracy?
Pakistani foreign office issued a statement
that Pakistan doesn’t need lectures about democracy from any
foreign country.
On this issue, we hear a lot of rhetoric from
general Musharraf and his different cronies and bugs sitting on
his coattail.
Pakistan’s illegal political setups are a
serious problem for the people of Pakistan, for the region where
Pakistan is located and for the world at large.
If Pakistanis demand from illegal political
actors to back off, they have a right to do so. For example,
general Musharraf is an illegal president. He came into power
through an illegal act. Rest of it is history; all Pakistanis
and the world know how he covered his ass (American idiom) after
illegal take over. If people of Pakistan demand from him that he
should quit what is wrong with it?
If regional powers talk about democracy, they
have a right to do so because Pakistan’s illegitimate rulers
have turned Pakistan into an irresponsible state which is
responsible for spread of terrorism and nuclear proliferation.
The regional powers rightfully believe if there were a
democratically elected and legal political setup in Pakistan,
this country would probably behave more within the norms of
international laws. Since illegitimate rulers in uniform benefit
by breaking the law, they do not respect international laws as
well. They use all types of tactics, legal and illegal, to
achieve their objectives.
Pakistan is member of United Nations and
according to the UN charter it has certain responsibilities and
obligations towards its citizens and international community. It
has to act within those limits which it doesn’t towards its
citizens as well as towards international community. Therefore,
if international community lectures Pakistan about democracy, it
has every right to do so.
General Musharraf can harass, subjugate,
control, choke, kidnap, torture, interrogate, jail or bombard
and kill (he doesn’t have a right to do all this because all
these acts are a crime under international law) his own people,
but he or his coattail bugs cannot tell the international
community that it should not lecture Pakistan about democracy.
Pakistan is a sick state. It is a sick state
because it is run and controlled by criminals who are
accountable to none and who have a whole state apparatus at
their disposal—a state apparatus that tells its citizens,
regional powers and international community to shut-up and not
talk about democracy.
Democracy is the call of the day. It is the
demand of the people of Pakistan and the people around the
globe.
Illegitimate rulers in Pakistan and Myanmar
and other parts of the world should know that their days are
numbered and they cannot sustain their unethical, illegal and
criminal set-ups any longer.
The forces of democracy are on the march.
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