The Pakistani Spectator

Pakistanis have been screwed and then re-screwed many times since their independence; sometimes in the name of democracy and sometimes in the fight for democracy, sometimes in the name of Jihad and then sometimes in the name of religion and then sometimes in the name of greater national interest and so on, but the sheep like people have always maintained a criminal silence over the high-handedness handed over to them by the civilian and military dictators, and after suffering through one dictator, Pakistanis wait for the next one, and the whole process gets restarted all over, just to repeat it self once again.

This vicious cycle is going on and on and there is no apparent stoppage to that. In order to escape the blame, the people open half eye from their slumber and meekly utter that it’s all the conspiracy from the West and behind West it’s the Israel, and then they go back to their oblivion and apathy. The truth is that the biggest conspiracy is hatched, weaved, maintained, groomed, cultivated and flourished and even implemented by all of us. We are the conspirator against us, and the biggest conspiracy is to maintain this conspiracy of silence.

It’s true that the nations become successful due to powerful leadership, but the followers of the leaders have to be equally up to the mark, and the top notch true leaders only emerge from the able followers. They have stopped coming from the Mars. We lashed and thrashed at the military dictator Musharraf and talked fervently and feverishly about the supremacy of parliament and the collective wisdom, but now as Musharraf has gone and we have got civilian setup, once again we have a civilian dictator on our heads, and we are hating him with full might and waiting for another dictator while suffering in silence.

It’s us who are at fault.