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Pak Army’s
Political Control Is The Mother of All Ills
Pakistan Weekly has consistently pointed out
the problems caused by Pakistan Army’s
control over the state of Pakistan.
Now, under general Musharraf, things are
getting out of proportion or even worse. His hide and seek games
with the people of Pakistan, with regional powers and with
international community may create problems which Pakistan won’t
be able to handle.
Recently he visited many Middle Eastern
states and now he is visiting Indonesia and Malaysia.
If one looks at general Musharraf’s political
career these trips become more explainable. When he illegally
took over Pakistan international community did not welcome him.
Particularly, United States shunned him so badly, the then US
President, Bill Clinton did not like to be photographed with
him. Then he chose to visit the countries which are chronic
dictatorships. He went to Egypt, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia,
and Malaysia and so on so forth.
Now, because of his double face policies he
is on no good terms with the United States, he is again visiting
the countries with un-representative and dictatorial
governments.
United States have started clearly seeing
Iran’s and Pakistan’s strategy to bleed United States in the
sands of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan. Now, they learned
how duplicitous general Musharraf is. As United States is
distancing itself from general Musharraf, he is again traveling
to countries where people like him are in control of things.
General Musharraf’s these hide and seek
tactics are making things more complicated for the people of
Pakistan, for Pakistan, for South Asian region and for
international community. The question is how long the people and
the armed forces of Pakistan want to put up with this man? It is
so because the key of general Musharraf’s presence on present
scene lies with the people and armed forces of Pakistan. If they
continue to tolerate general Musharraf’s shenanigans and let him
play his hide and seek games the chances are international
factors will eventually kick in and play their role. It will be
a worse scenario.
It is important the people and the armed
forces of Pakistan start thinking to get rid of this man. The
people of Pakistan should gain political control of the state of
Pakistan. The armed forces should go back to barracks and ISI
should shorten its focus on its military intelligence duties.
The sooner Pakistan’s who are who start moving in this direction
the things will start easing up for Pakistan.
All interested and concerned parties,
national and international, must know how evil Pakistan army’s
military control over the state is and what kind of problems it
is creating for everyone. They all must work to untangle this
relationship.
Only a democratic Pakistan run by civilian
representative authorities can become a springboard for peace
instead of terrorism.
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