Pakistan’s Army Chief has made a thought-provoking speech in the GHQ ceremony on the occasion of the country’s Defense Day. But before analysing this speech, I want to emphasise upon the need on the part of our Prime Minister to come out of ‘a dangerous mode’ which is definitely curtailing his ability to act as the Nation’s principal decision-maker and ‘executive authority’.
The energies that the Prime Minister should have been using in the defense of the country and its interests, are being used in the defense of his POWER. He is building alliances singularly for this objective. The national interests have been pushed into the back seat.
The logic that the stalwarts as well as the pygmies of the MNS camp have adopted and are excessively using, is: “There are other thieves too. Like Jahangir Tareen. Like Aleem Khan. And like Imran Khan. Why is MNS being targeted?”
This twisted logic by implication means that MNS has a right to be a thief because there are other thieves too.
Damn it, no other thief is Pakistan’s Prime Minister. The nation wants its Chief Executive, its principal policy-maker and strategist ‘not to be a thief’. If MNS isn’t a thief, and is as clean as he is being portrayed, he should come boldly forward and earn certified exoneration through impartial and credible scrutiny.
Isn’t it strange that the MNS camp is not talking about thieves of any other political party? Only Imran Khan’s PTI! What happened to the resolve of the Mian brothers “to tear open Zardari’s belly and recover the plundered wealth inside”?
Pakistan today needs its own defense, not the defense of the power of its ‘accused’ prime minister.
That is the quintessence of the Army Chief’s message on the 6th of September.
What does he mean when he says that the nexus of organised crime, rampant corruption and brutal terrorism has to be smashed, if Peace and Progress are our goals.
What are the implied meanings of his statement that the National Action Plan has to be observed and implemented in letter and ‘spirit’?
