General (R) Flathead
The
other day Pakistan's leading daily The News carried a general
Musharraf's statement. The learned general said, "No institution or
individual is indispensable."
I always have been skeptical about general
Musharraf's intelligence, vision, understanding and depth of
knowledge. He has a below average mind with the least capacity to
rule a country. COAS-ship is a different matter. The people with the
best instinctive survival skills are the best suited for the job.
The general has plenty of them. So do all the animals that survive
in Jangles.
Now who should tell this general that
institutions are indispensable? Without stable institutions,
countries fall and nations disappear. So do their armies along with
their impervious generals.
I wonder if the general has the same feelings
about Pakistan Army; If no institution is indispensable than why not
Pakistan Army; If no individual is indispensable than why not the
general himself?
For heaven?s sake, someone should help Pakistan
to get rid of this man in uniform who has tunnel vision, skewed
ideas, but strong instinctive skills. He can simply destroy
Pakistan.
Countries run by mediocre rulers can survive and
thrive, but countries run by rulers with strong instinctive skills
have no chance. Neither rulers with strong instinctive skills can
get anything right nor the countries they rule.
When I look back at general Musharraf's last
three years I wonder how Pakistan survived. General Musharraf
brushed Pakistan many times during these three years with total
collapse and annihilation. But somehow this country survived.
It survived regardless of misadventure of Kargil,
the catastrophic event of 9/11 and a yearlong Indian siege.
General's remarks that individuals and
institutions are not indispensable speak volumes about his mind. If
general's logic is true than army being an institution is
dispensable and so is general. Then why he is clinging to the power.
Whey he does not return the country to its rightful rulers?
