بےنظیر بھٹو کا فسانہ
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یہ اس وقت کی بات ہے جب بے نظیر بھٹو دسمبر 1988 میں پاکستان کی پہلی خاتون وزیرِ اعظم اور پہلی بار وزیرِ اعظم بنیں۔ یوں لگتا تھا کہ جیسے پاکستان کی دنیا بدل جائے گی۔ پاکستان کے عام لوگوں کے دلدر دورہو جائیں گے۔ بہت کچھ بدل جائے گا۔
پھریوں ہوا کہ ابھی چھ سات ماہ گزرے تھے کہ انھوں نے جون 1989 میں امریکہ کا سرکاری دورہ کیا، اور امریکی کانگریس کے مشترکہ اجلاس سے خطاب کیا۔ یہ خطاب پاکستان میں بھی نشر کیا گیا۔ میں نے بھی بڑے شوق اور فخر سے سنا۔ مگر یہی وہ خطاب تھا، جسے سن کر ان پر سے میرا اعتبار اٹھنے لگا۔ ایک دراڑ پڑ گئی تھی۔
بے نظیر نے خطاب کے دوران امریکی نمائندگان کو مخاطب کرتے ہوئے کہا: ’میرے دوستو، یہی وقت ہے پاکستان میں معجزات برپا کرنے …
Sense of direction
With JUI (F), MQM, and PML (Q) once again out to test their gamesmanship, and ANP, PML (N), the Army, and the political-religious parties outside waiting in the wings, it seems Pakistan is all set to brace for another bout of political crisis – leaving us the people bewildered what the hell is the direction they are all moving Pakistan into!
… That there is no sense of direction in what is happening or cooking to happen is not far from the truth. An 18th Amendment, a 7th NFC Award, autonomous status for Gilgit-Baltistan, or the Reconciliation mantra appear like in-connectible jots on a maze of unattended urgencies.
This is an attempt to refresh memories of us all, especially the politicians and the Armymen, with the sense of direction reached in 1973.
A constitution is never a political document. It is not
Crimes and the political alibi
“I am a politician; I cannot commit any crime; I am perfectly innocent!”
That is how, as we know at least in Pakistan, politicians argue. That manner of political self-defense clears the two-way traffic: criminals may become politicians; and, politicians may become criminals. Pakistanis have enough of both. And the breed is multiplying like rabbits. All the more, species belonging to other realms of social, economic, military, cultural, religious have started aping the politicians. They have learned the art of politics from them. That’s a hundred percent fool-proof method of overcoming any odds.
Also, that has rendered all the systems of accountability inefficacious. Why? Because, and it is awfully baffling that, all the systems of accountability are conceived, detailed and legislated by the criminal politicians or political criminals. Who can forget the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO)? And it is these politicians, tainted with criminality, who appoint the heads to these