The Pakistani Spectator

Democratic government is surely there, but there is no democracy out there. Both chief executive and the president are running to catch the same ball and due to their collision, nothing is in the hands of anybody and the world is amazed at our follies, embarrassment and confusion. We are wetting our own pants without any reason, just because we have got a president who thinks himself as the owner of Pakistan.

Pakistan is no Surrey Palace and it’s now some sort of cinema ticket which could be blacked. In the last few hours, things have turned very nasty and the Prime Minister of Pakistan has sacked the national security advisor of Pakistan. Prime Minister Gilani has said very angrily that Durrani had given a statement to an Indian news channel regarding Ajmal Kasab without taking him into confidence.

Pakistan has become a joke. Blunders upon blunders are being accomplished at the scene. Right after the Mumbai attacks, the uncertain and confused Pakistani leadership puked and decided to send the DG ISI Pasha to India, then army put some sense in the Zardari and the decision was taken back. Then the fiasco of United Nations happened. Some government officials said that Pakistan itself asked China to support the resolutin to ban Jamat-ud-Dawa, and some denied it.

Then a flurry of contradictory statements came out when Indian war crafts violated the Pakistani airspace.  Some PPP leaders claimed that nothing such incident happened, but then government officialy protested to the Indians over the incident. Then there was the notorius incident in which someone from Indian foreign ministry phoned Zardari by personating as Pranab Mukherjee and threatened him for fourty minutes and the Pakistani commander-in-chief Zardari panicked. Then Pranab told media that he never made such call and it may be some hoax call which was put to Zardari without screening.

Now this pratfalling blunder of Ajmal Kasab’s nationality. National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani said that Ajmal Kasab was Pakistani but the Prime Minister says that he wasn’t sure and Durrani bypassed him. Durrani says that his action was fully supported by the President Asif Ali Zardari.

Gilani is furious over this. He has been telling Zardari to take his hands off the state affairs and as Gilani as the chief executive and answerable to the parliament. But Zardari is not giving any importance to the premier and thinking him as spareable. Rehman Malik, Sherry Rehman, Salman Farooqi, Hussain Haqqani and Mehmud Ali Durrani and host of others are sorrounding Gilani and dictating him the orders of Zardari.

Now a new fight has broke our between the President’s coterie and the Prime Minister. Mehmud Ali Durrani says that he damn cares about his dismissal and don’t give it a hell, while Prime Minister of Pakistan has very angrily said that he won’t allow such insults to his designation. Alas they both would have also cared for the Pakistan. This fiasco would just give India a handle to pressurize and pester Pakistan. India has already said that Pakistan as lying from the outset and also has demanded that Pakistan should accept that the other nine terrorists also belonged to their soil and Indian demands will only grow.

In all this contention, the image of Pakistan has tarnished. In this disceptation, everybody is talking to everybody and nobody is reading from the same page and there seems no direction whatsoever and every body is holding a separate page. Deception starts from the Zardari and permeates through the lower ranks. Lack of coordination between the top echelons has put the credibility of the country at stake in such dire times.