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Creation,
Promotion and Perpetuation of Culture of Illegitimacy
When
an army chief illegally takes over a country he violates rules
of his own organization, commits crime against his country, his
nation and his people. Pakistan is one of the unique countries
which have endured this phenomenon for well over 50 years. With
fourth such illegal ruler in full control of reins of state,
there is no end in sight to despicable phenomenon.
Why are we writing about this issue after
eight years of general Musharraf’s illegal take over?
What happened in 1971 in East Pakistan and
what happened in Balochistan two weeks ago has forced us to
revisit the question of illegitimacy of general Musharraf’s
despotic regime. In 1971, Pakistan was under control of another
illegitimate ruler who took over Pakistan breaking the law and
without the consent of the people of Pakistan. Consequently
Pakistan broke.
Much before military operation started in
Balochistan we wrote general Musharraf was worse than Yahya
Khan. Now, someone has called him Yahya Khan-2. We are glad the
people who supported Musharraf for one reason or the other are
now calling him Yahya Khan-2. Eventually, they have learned to
understand the essence of the man they admired few years ago
without much credence. The problem was not with the man, general
Musharraf, the problem was with those who chose to keep their
eyes closed towards the reality that general Musharraf
represented.
The fact of the matter is Pakistani society
has fully trapped and locked in a culture of illegitimacy. This
culture of illegitimacy has blindfolded those who illegally take
over the country, those who promote them and those who
perpetuate them.
Creation of culture of illegitimacy is their
necessity who illegally take over the country. Like the saying
goes, one has to tell hundred lies in order to cover his one
lie. Similarly, a criminal has to commit hundred other crimes in
order to cover his one crime. Those who illegally take over the
country they have to do one hundred and one things in order to
cover their one criminal act of illegally taking over the
country.
After illegally taking over the country when
they call Sharifuddin Pirzada in the middle of night they start
creating the culture of Illegitimacy. When Sharifuddin Pirzada
agrees to go to court and the court agrees to accommodate his
plea, Sharifuddin Pirzada and the court start promoting and
perpetuating culture of illegitimacy.
Then, many more actors emerge on the national
stage and start playing their role to create, promote and
perpetuate the culture of illegitimacy. During this vicious
cycle, they create many more mini-cycles of creation, promotion
and perpetuation of culture of illegitimacy. Some creators,
promoters and perpetuators of this vicious cycle directly befit
from this culture of illegitimacy, some indirectly, and yet some
others join the band wagon just in hope to benefit from it at
some point in time.
When a country breaks down because of
perpetuation of this culture of illegitimacy, or tragedies like
Akbar Bugti’s murder or the murder of thousands of other
Bengalis and Balochis take place, these creators, promoters and
perpetuators of culture of illegitimacy exactly know how to
hide, where to hide, how to say and what to say and which face
to put on and appear on national TV.
Pakistan has become a filthy pond which is
full of dirty creatures like Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zia ul Haq,
Musharraf, Pirzada, Anwar ul Haq, Irshad Hasan, Shaukat Aziz,
Waseem Sajjad, Chaudharies of Gujrat, Mullahs of MMA, so-called
anti military MQM, Sher Afghan Niazi, Shaikh
Rashid, Mohammad Ali Durrani, Tariq Azeem, Shaukat Sultan, Wasi Zaffar, Mir Khalil Ur Rehman,
Irshad Ahmad Haqqani, Hasan Askari, Khalid Ahmed, Najm Sethi and
many more.
They all have at some point created, promoted
or perpetuated culture of illegitimacy and made Pakistan’s
filthy pond even filthier.
Some of them are still creating, promoting
and perpetuating this culture of illegitimacy.
With this pervasive culture of illegitimacy,
how can there be any hope for Pakistan?
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