Wounded Pride

 Aitezaz Ahsan’s yesterday’s remarks set my thought train in motion. Why did he have to say this? He is from Zardari’s party. Zardari is already steering the bandwagon if not spearheading it. May be at the twilight of his sojourn, Aitezaz Ahsan for once is speaking for Pakistan. Why he accused The Sovereign? Why it has come to that? Now the spin doctors may tag him as Indian ploy or call me an anti state rogue element or eccentric youthia whereas I don’t belong to any party except Pakistan. But the reality is that there is something seriously wrong down there and there is so much polarisation on issues that people in terms of opinions are poles apart. Why in my late forties, I’m losing the plot? The story lines sold to me all my life by my institution ain’t working anymore. I hated the very existence of corrupt politicians which was sold to me and I bought it with total conviction. Why it doesn’t make sense to me anymore? Please stop kidding yourself. Mr X or Y may like to think whatever they want but Pakistan is above all of us.  Unfortunate happenings all around. Institution of Arms disreputed. Personnel disrespected. Shaheeds’ blood not honoured the way it should have been. System of governance disrupted. Faith in the entire system disappeared. Fallacious claims of producing leadership discredited. Just a resignation of a three star might have saved our wounded rather dying pride in our prestigious institution. Veterans who took immense pride in their institution were made to feel ‘us’ & ‘them’. It may take generations to regain lost trust of masses. No one could take out deep rooted love and respect of this institution from people’s hearts including our arch rival and enemy next door like recent events did. It never happened before like this. Weakness of system so badly exposed that entire system can be brought down by one man because there is serious imbalance of power. One man can sell off the country and no one can raise the voice. No questions asked. Seeing massive bail out of criminals, common people are forced to think that they are living in this country to face more and more suppression. Is there any answer to this ‘democratic fixing’ of problem wherein cost of life has gone so high that financial crunch is getting to people’s nerves. Forget about, political affiliations, orientations and inclinations and have a reality check. In past six months, has there been any sign of governance? Any thing concrete? Can someone gauge the economic loss? Can someone predict recovery from economic loss? Those who have been installed upon us are just making hay while the sun shines on their miserable selves. Except getting relief from the law by bending it, would they do anything else? How badly the country has been devastated by one man. 

IK continues to take the bait like 25/26 May, last week and so on. He continues to trust the most untrustworthy. The invisible and self proclaimed invincible cult which couldn’t protect our kids in APS Peshawar but continues to come up with sham stories of hackers, planted servants at Bani Gala & so on. Ironically, post APS Peshawar, all those sitting at important positions in that horrific tragedy got away with it. Some of them even got promoted. In fact, there is a group of untouchable men in this country who can get away with anything and everything. During my years in service, it used to amuse me how people went “out of the way” to “reach for the stars” and now it makes perfect sense why there were no limits, morals or values to hold them back. It was all about making it to that club of untouchables.  What a sad reality?

May Allah protect Pakistan. Ameen