For you it might be the beginning of new year, for me it used to be the same but now its 8 Jamadi-us-Sani 1444 AH. Doesn’t matter, if you are happy at the tick of the clock to midnight into new year then Happy New Gregorian Year. I did celebrate many new year nights in western style including one at Trafalgar Square London and now I wonder why?
Didn’t have any plans to write but nonstop fireworks in Twin Cities for over 25 minutes now have forced me to review this activity and the year we left behind. In retrospect, if we realise losses versus gains, the losses weigh out gains so heavily that we wouldn’t even think of celebrating let alone this wasteful activity of burning phosphorus and TNT adding to air and noise pollution and disturbing people (elderly) in the middle of their sleep. What is there to celebrate? Have we achieved anything except international certification of corruption and beggary. You know how you treat a roadside professional beggar. This is how nations are treating us. And we have the guts to burn so much of money in fireworks!!!
2022 was by far the best year on personal account because I finally have been able to diagnose Pakistan’s problem. Those on my hit list whom I thought were the real villains including politicians, clergy, judges, institutions etc have slipped down many places. It turns out, it is my love, my institution army which is the root cause of every problem we face today. Practically, a heartbreak. In past, it would blow my fuse when a set of politicians and people would talk against Army. I would take on people from MQM, Noon League, Asma Jehangir, Ayesha Siddiqa, Pishtin etc. They would always whinge about Army not letting the institutions grow and as counter argument we would always be fed that all of them were anti Pakistan serving foreign agendas. Ahan, so what’s the solution? Just need one leader who who has some integrity and this nation will rise. And Imran Khan, we were told was The One. He was allowed limited access to power and kept under check all the way. Ousted and replaced by the most corrupt (as was drilled into our heads in past three decades). By the way this by no means is a pro-PTI blog, please read it as it comes to you without any preconceived assumptions or framing.
After regime change, we were expected to upgrade by automatic software update but operating system of many Pakistanis (including veterans) didn’t automatically pick up the latest version. It wouldn’t sync with the our system. The misadventure of April 2022 regime change has unmasked the true ugly face of army leadership in this country. I wish it didn’t happen like this. I wish I didn’t have to write all this.
The more you research from mid fifties till this day, it has always been US who maintained control over Pakistan through senior army leadership. We can’t blame US for it. Being world superpower, she would like to maintain hold/ stranglehold on most of the world. Problem starts when their wish becomes our desire. They implement their designs through senior military leadership in Pakistan.
First understand the difference between senior military leadership and the military. And if you understand that you will feel as hopeful as I am after this analysis. I’m not connected with any ‘silent soldiers’, so I’ll give you some hypothetical stats. As we know army hierarchical system is pyramid like structure. Army might be one million in numbers but senior leadership consists of 25-30 men from league of extraordinary men who are not only untouchable but enjoy unequivocal power in this country. This first tier is so loaded with power and money that can easily blind anyone specially hailing from an insecure and bhooki nation as we are. Top man with four stars has around 25 three stars including 9 Corps Commanders (sadly condescending words are being used for corps commanders starting with letter “C” like corrupt, crime etc). Next is 125 odd Major Generals who don’t matter except how close they are to next two tiers. Next around 500 Brigadiers who don’t matter at all except their connectivity among top three echelons. Below these (one million minus approx 650 men up to brigadier rank) are totally expendable items. In first two decades of service, only those are corrupted who have tendency towards corruption (this equates to proportion of corruption in society and how many us are not corrupt?) and other half who get to see the real face of upper tiers due to nature of their employment. However, remaining are the real lions. They are the best of men on God’s earth. They don’t fear death. They work like mad. They can achieve the un-achievable. And that is where the hope lies. If at all one honest man gets through this filter of top men unnoticed by Americans, fate of this nation will change Insha Allah.
I’m not obsessed with US. In fact, I used to make fun of some people in my circles who would find traces of US conspiracy in everything but 2022 has changed it all. US runs the puppet show in this country through its embassy and consulates. If someone could ever know details of meetings between ‘notable’ military & political men with US officials. Recall, wiki leaks when even Molans made an attempt to be given a chance of Premiership in Pakistan. Look at the fortress of US in Diplomatic Enclave, Islamabad. Do we have any fort or university as large as US embassy in our capital? Are those thousands and thousands of staffers here in Pakistan in love of biryani or charsi tikka?
They need to keep check on China and in doing so Pakistan. For that they need stooges in Pakistan just like they did with USSR using Afghan Muhahideen through Pakistan Army. Now they need Pak Army again to operate in their favour against its national interest. Whenever, I ask ‘the most learned men in Pakistan’ (obviously military) why being US centric? Has it benefited us in past seven decades? What we achieved by this slavery? Their answers would vary from sanctions to F-16 parts to strangest possible explanations, most interesting being ‘you don’t know’. I don’t know anything but I do know where we stand in terms of progress in any walk of life. Get out of US shackles slowly and surely. And please stop deceiving and confusing Chinese, identify your right friends and make a move in the right direction.
For next year and years to come, there is only one prayer that we get freedom from Americans and their representatives in Pakistan. Ameen
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