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Pakistan: Between
Terrorists and Criminal Ruling Elite
 The problem of terrorism in Pakistan is more
complicated than many analysts think or explain.
Today, Pakistan Army Chief, General Pervaiz
Kiyani gave a briefing to the prominent political leaders of
Pakistan about overall security situation in the country and
possible military operations in Waziristan and Balochistan.
Two of the attendees of the Security Briefing
Meeting were named in a recently filed FIR in Dera Bugti City
Police Station about the assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti.
Balochistan is in hell fire since the murder
of Nawab Akbar Bugti. How Balochis will react to this Security
Briefing Meeting when they will see Awais Ghani’s and Aftab
Sherpao’s names among the attendees of the meeting?
One does not have to be a rocket scientist to
understand.
Today, Chief Justice of Pakistan issued a
notice to recently appointed Advisor to the Prime Minister of
Pakistan Mr. Latif Khosa to defend the charges of receiving 30
lack rupees from a woman from Peshawar to help her husband’s
case in Supreme Court. Mr. Latif Khosa was Attorney General of
Pakistan few days before he took the oath of the office of
Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
These two examples are two grains of sand out
of the oceans of criminal acts of the members of the ruling
elite of Pakistan.
In other countries when accused with such
allegations, people resign from their positions, but in Pakistan
people try to become part of the ruling elite to protect them.
Former President of Pakistan, General (rtd)
Musharraf illegally took over Pakistan on October 12, 1999. He
ruled Pakistan until his ouster on August 18, 2008 with iron
fist. During his long 9 years of tyrannical rule, he committed
several crimes against the constitution, the state and the
people of Pakistan.
If one FIR is registered for his each crime,
there would be thousands of FIRs in all Police Stations of
Pakistan.
No one can file an FIR against him in any
Police Station. It took three and a half years and Balochistan
High Court’s orders to file FIR of Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case
against him at Dera Bugti City Police Station.
Before his ouster, general (rtd) Musharraf
issued National Reconciliation Order (NRO). One may get easily
misguided with the title National Reconciliation Order (NRO),
but no reconciliation was intended in this so-called NRO. The
idea was to forgive thousands of criminals’ all sorts of crimes
from financial corruption to murder charges.
All those who benefited from the NRO are now
part of the government in one way or the other.
The biggest beneficiary was slain former
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Asif Zardari who is now
the President of Pakistan.
NRO needs parliamentary protection. Mr.
Zardari’s party has introduced the NRO in parliament for its
approval.
Thousands of criminal members of the ruling
elite will get parliamentary protection if this NRO is approved
One Federal Minister shamefully boasted on
national TV: “We are going to approve NRO because we have
majority in the parliament.”
In return, as quid pro quo, general (rtd)
Musharraf has immunity from all the crimes he committed against
the constitution, the state and the people of Pakistan.
Another major beneficiary of NRO is new born
so-called liberal and moderate leader of MQM and his thousands
of minions.
Now, he is trying to become a mountain out of
a mole or eagle out of a moth through use of GEO and ARY TV
channels.
The fearful media tycoons let him use their
TV channels to make him look taller than actually he is. He ran
away from Pakistan when hundreds of criminal charges were filed
against him for constantly appearing sacks of dead bodies or
body parts on the streets of Karachi. He delivers tirades on TV
but cannot dare to step back in Pakistan, because he knows his
opponents have not forgiven the crimes committed on his orders
by his minions against their loved ones.
He thinks the people have forgotten thousands
of sacked dead bodies of mercilessly slain opponents of the then
Mohajir Qaumi Movement. The Karachi police called them “Bori
Band Lashin.”
The other day, he was trying to impress the
people of largest province of Pakistan by delivering few
sentences in Punjabi during his tirade.
While using the threatening language against
the landlords of Punjab, unconsciously, he linked himself with
the rhetoric of “Bori Band Lashin.” He warned the landlords of
Punjab: “Warna Othay Aan Gay Boray.” He forgot, by using the
term “Boray” he was suggesting his audience to think about all
those thousands of “Bori Band Lashian” which were found on the
streets of Karachi for which his Mohajir Qaumi Movement was
blamed.
Such is the state of onslaught of hypocrisy
and criminality with which the people of Pakistan are dealing.
The people of Pakistan are stuck between the
terrorists and criminal ruling elite. Who should they first deal
with: the terrorists or the shamefully adamant criminal ruling
elite?
On one hand the terrorists are killing them
every day through bomb explosions, suicide bombings, and
run-away firings and on the other they have to hear
pronouncements of members of ruling elite who are visibly known
for their criminal histories.
What a predicament? What helplessness? What
agony?
We know who these terrorists are? We know
where are they coming from? We know how ruthless they are? We
are helplessly watching our people killed by their bomb
explosions and suicide bombings and cannot do anything about
them.
But would someone one please tells us the
details of the criminals of ruling elite who benefitted from NRO
before parliament approves it?
The detail list must start from slain former
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her widower, current President
of Pakistan, and the ‘Holier than Thou’ Altaf Hussain whose
sermons are making us now little weary and all other
beneficiaries who are the members of current ruling coalition.
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