I read somewhere that we don't acknowledge something terrible for as long as possible because there is a superstition that if you do then it will become a reality. I wonder why people ask this question and for the last time here is what I think.
The justice giver in Pakistan was denied justice and he came out on the streets, he had a mass following, people from all walks of life, age groups, classes, gender, rallied along with him. He travelled through Pakistan. Every city, town, village he passed people came out in huge numbers to greet him and to show their support for what he stood for. This mass caused a dictatorship to fall and ousted a self delusional autocrat. It became a movement, a symbol, an idea and was on its way to achieve greater things when the brokers of power sitting in other countries got concerned (and rightly so, people have no right to choose for themselves) and made a coup d' etet against this movement. It took place in US, that much we know because though the representative was a daughter of the East, she was a darling of the West. She was a household name and the powers that be actually made a very clever move because it split the movement right in the middle. Just when we thought the movement was being hijacked by democracy we had another coup d' etat and this time a bloody one and her husband took over the reigns of what? We still don't know.
Is it a government? Does anyone see any governance? When the Pakistani people said they don't want the autocrat, no one imagined he would be replaced by HIM! Since then state of mind of Pakistani people can best be described in one word 'Depressed'. What has looked up since Musharraf's ousting? Size of cabinet, definitely! We have more administrators and less administration.
So, I ask you my dear readers, is Pakistan a failed state? I guess I, too, am superstitious.
The justice giver in Pakistan was denied justice and he came out on the streets, he had a mass following, people from all walks of life, age groups, classes, gender, rallied along with him. He travelled through Pakistan. Every city, town, village he passed people came out in huge numbers to greet him and to show their support for what he stood for. This mass caused a dictatorship to fall and ousted a self delusional autocrat. It became a movement, a symbol, an idea and was on its way to achieve greater things when the brokers of power sitting in other countries got concerned (and rightly so, people have no right to choose for themselves) and made a coup d' etet against this movement. It took place in US, that much we know because though the representative was a daughter of the East, she was a darling of the West. She was a household name and the powers that be actually made a very clever move because it split the movement right in the middle. Just when we thought the movement was being hijacked by democracy we had another coup d' etat and this time a bloody one and her husband took over the reigns of what? We still don't know.
Is it a government? Does anyone see any governance? When the Pakistani people said they don't want the autocrat, no one imagined he would be replaced by HIM! Since then state of mind of Pakistani people can best be described in one word 'Depressed'. What has looked up since Musharraf's ousting? Size of cabinet, definitely! We have more administrators and less administration.
So, I ask you my dear readers, is Pakistan a failed state? I guess I, too, am superstitious.
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I agree that the nation has been failed time and again by invisible powers.