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Dictatorship Vs Democracy"” Pakistan's Perspective
Musharraf's Chrisma, Popularity & Good Governance Vs Corrupt PPP & PML (N) Coalition
By
His Grace Sahibzada Hoseyn AKC
Honoured to be "Esquire""”next below to "Knight""”"Sir
April 02, 2008
Under the auspices of
The Worthy Quaid-e-Azam Memorial Society
Jumeirah Carlton Tower
On Cadogan Palace
London
SW1X 9PY
United Kingdom
While deliberating the imposition of Martial Law in some of the colonies of the Realm, Duke of Wellington, the noble lord who was conferred on the gallantry title of the Knight of Garter said in 1751 at the august House of Lords:
Martial Law is neither more nor less than the will of the conquering general.
Since the obnoxious act of October 12, 1999, the haughty regime of Gen Musharraf has been doing till today, all that which is contrary to the will of the people. To disgrace the people's preference is tantamount to dishonour them. Having been disgustingly deprived of the rights of civitas, they are not to be treated as the citizens, but simply as the state subjects. It is palpable in the case of missing persons, in the killing of journalists, the nationalistic Blochs and Pakhtoons, Ulema, Madrassa students, Taliban, teachers, lawyers, judges and the tenants of Okara and Peroval.
On the dictatorial device of Mussolini, the incumbent dictator vociferously voices "Pakistan first". It smells out what the Fascist Italian would keep on saying:
All within the State; nothing outside the State; no one against the State
Pakistan is not a single nation in popular terms but a federation of myriad sub-nationalities based on divergent geographic, lingual and cultural cults. It requires to be administered with a vast intellectual and political capacity, which is provided by the people's aspiration and mandate. It is not only the greatest confidence building measure ensuring the mass partaking in the statecraft, which envisages legitimacy to rule, but also to keep up cementing the populace into an accord of unity and harmony. Moreover, it is the lone mechanism which establishes the sense of belonging amongst the masses to the very entity of state thereby transforming them from a herd to an egalitarian society.
Sadly, the snooty and self-cantered usurper lacks the requisite qualities, indispensable to keep the nation on the go. However, on the characteristic standard of dictatorship he is badly deficient and defiant of tolerance, which is the hallmark of a nation's conviction to grow up through a natural political process. Philosophically, tolerance is the only guarantee to let the diversity flourish, of which the independence of thought and expression are the concomitants. More so, it solely sustains dignity and self-respect. It was the vitality of personal opinion and tolerance, which convinced Helvetius to highlight in the classic age of Philosophy"”far before the advent of Jesus:
I detest your opinions, but I will contend to the death for your right to utter them.
Here all the dissenting mouths are cruelly closed, which attests that Pakistanis are not in the 21st century but waiting for Jesus to rescue them from the tyrant. Be it noted that politics neither means to impose, nor to divide, but to amalgamate the masses through the rational of dialogue into a single unit, where there might be differences of minimal magnitude but it warrants the inevitable existence of a cohesive and accommodative order ensuring the people's sway in the political arena. If not be the case, it creates crime, unrest frustration, alienation and disarray, which truly reflects Mushy's Pakistan.
Today's Pakistan is truly an over-developed security state wherein the solitary voice of a bugger reigns supreme, who trampled the command of the masses and acceded to the throne through an act of usurpation. Even be that lousy and corrupt, indeed dictatorship is neither comparable, nor an alternative to democracy. Sir Winston Churchill, the celebrated soldier and statesman remarked:
The inadequacies of democracy can be rectified only by more doses of democracy.
Thus, the plunder of Pakistan either by Nawaz Sharif, or Benazir, or Zardari could only be discovered and recovered through a democratic order. Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Iskinder Mirza, Ayub, Yahya, Zia and Musharraf could not contribute a single penny to the national exchequer in the forte of the so-called plunders perpetrated by the political lot. They instead merrily became the patron-in-chief of those who robbed the poor nation. M/s Shaukat Aziz & Chadries of Gujrat and the promulgation of the NRO"”National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007 are the evident examples credited with the incumbent dictator.
Be assured whole heartedly that the people's will, be it 1970, or 2008 cannot be void. Indeed we have no prerogative to doubt the genius of the masses, who demonstrate the will of Creator. We ought to honour it, and if necessary, dissent it in the most dignified manners of dialogue and forbearance instead of eulogising the illegal and illegitimate rule of the half-mad. He neither owns a semblance of charisma, but of cruelty, nor does he hold the smallest fragmentation of popularity, as he is but a puppet of the World Jewish Congress. His domestic and external policies simply signify the dictates of the Jewish plot against the country, which came into existence through the apparatus of law, whose people's mammoth resolve is pompously enshrined in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which is the greatest victim of the autocracy in attendance.
As to popularity and chrisma earned by Musharraf, and austerity and good governance acclaimed by him, be it noticed that during his last trip to the United Kingdom his blackish face had to lick the dust when he was not received by the Royal Delegate at the VVIP apron of Heathrow. Thus, Pakistan One"”the Qatar Airways gifted airbus"”A330 to PIA but at his personal whims refurbished as "˜Musharraf's flying circus' could only be parked @ £ 120 per hour. He was not accorded with the official status of a state visitor. He was not offered to stay in Cleridges, which is in the closest vicinity of Westminster. He was rather lodged at the fabulous Dorchester in Mayfair on the expense of the poverty-stricken nation. His suit cost Pakistan £ 20,000 per night. Despite that he could not remain content, as there were numerous groups of demonstrators at the hallowed Park Lane to voice against the killer of humanity.
When he came to call on Gordon Brown he had to countenance in front of 10 Downing Street more than 1000 barristers led by Timothy QC protesting against his despotism. It was not a traditional luncheon but a courtesy call and the spokesman had to come out to calm down the marching lawyers by making a significant statement:
He is here by his own; we have not invited the gentleman.
Next day he was sternly repudiated by the Cambridge University with a sheer decline to entertain him on the appointed day for making a sermon on the war against terrorism. On the doomsday no thinker, philosopher, intellectual, jurist or a media man from the learned land of Lord Tennyson could be arranged by the High Commissioner to grace His Excellency the President of the Islamic Atomic Power, except to call his pet Altaf Husain from Mill Hill to come down to wine and dine, thereby sharing the immodest commonalities of hegemonies, despotism, intrigues, and killings for whetting their hyper possessive instincts. Where does stand chrisma, popularity, austerity and good governance? If it is considered in the backdrop of extensive espousal by Pentagon and White House, this too is of no avail, as the Republicans have already been voted out in the last Congressional elections.
Indeed the PPP and the PML (N) are not Saints but the worthy elected representatives of the people of Pakistan. We ought to expect that they would honour their commitments to their electorate. But in the presence of the desire-stricken pup magnificently lodged in the Presidency it cannot be termed a commanding order but quid pro quo and a dispensation at crutches, which did not invest the transfer of power but meekly imbibed the poison of problems. The hoax of Usama, Taliban, terrorism, border security, lawlessness, incessant crimes, price hike, social unrest, political polarisation and the feeble economy are the worst indicators of the darkest days of an unfortunate republic, which they have unreservedly owned up.
Instead of negotiating the Bhurban Declaration whereby the term of reference to the coalition was brokered, it was more desirable and much in line with the people's aspirations to launch a land-slide movement against the totalitarianism in the wake of the crystal clear verdict dated February 18, 2008. Instead of accepting the shift of the dirtiest legacy of a dictator they needed more to oust the veneering manifestation of the arrogant autocracy from the highest echelons of power. They must be ready to pay the price for the strategic error, as it is not mere a mistake but a political blunder.
During his twelve years of authoritarian rule De Gaul despite his extensive development works remained a persona non grata to a common Frenchman. He, however, claimed honour when he accepted the people's will and ex mero motu resigned. Those who are fascinated by the obsession of nude power can never claim honour. There could be the Courts, constituted by their own brainchild to return the dictated verdicts but the sense of guilt never vanishes from their condensed minds. History witnesses that those who brutally hunt the masses cannot rule on their hearts. It is noteworthy that chrisma, popularity and self-esteem stem from making greater contributions to the common good of society; by making sacrifices; by giving more and taking less. No one remembers even a single name of the 150 members' jury, which sentenced Socrates to death. But the sanctified soul of the Prophet of Truth rules the arena of wisdom. Though, he was not handsome like his abler and beloved pupil Plato, yet his charisma spreads over the amphitheatre of learning and erudition. Though he had no influence in the mob democrats of Athens, yet he earned incomparable honour more than any Athenian; in fact more than any human being. As bigger is the objective so bigger is the sacrifice.
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