The destinies of nations are changed not by pragmatic realists, but by future-driven visionaries.
Future is what you can create through your vision. Present is what exists, on which you base realistic pragmatism.
Pakistan needs a visionary.
After the great Quaid, there did not appear on the national horizon a leader whom we could reckon above the mediocres and sub-mediocres who have ruled this country. Bhutto was an exception. And even his worst critics and opponents conceded that he was brilliant. There is no denying the fact that he was an opportunist and was not wedded or welded to any ideology. Precisely why I was driven to write Jhoot Ka Peghambar (Apostle of Deceit) which turned out to be the biggest best-seller of 1970s. but his brilliance was so overwhelming that Dr Kissinger was led to comment: “Pakistan is too small a country for this man.” This comment came soon after his visit to Pakistan and his meeting with Bhutto.
Bhutto also had a vision. He knew even in the late 1960s that Pakistan didn’t belong to the so-called South Asia— Pakistan belonged to Central-West Asia. He elaborated this vision quite comprehensively in his book “The Myth Of Independence” His main achievement as Pakistan’s ruler was not the 1973 Constitution (as most champions of Parliamentary Democracy acknowledge) His main achievement was the authorship of the idea of a Nuclear Pakistan, and of a Pakistan leading the Islamic world from the front.
Dr A.Q. Khan acknowledged in a meeting with me that without Bhutto’s passion there would have been no Nuclear Pakistan.
Today Pakistan is at a turning point of its history. Cross-Roads is the right expression.
And at this point Pakistan needs a visionary. Someone who can break away from such traditional ideas as SAARC and Peaceful Neighbourhood, and progress through diverting more resources towards development than security.
Pakistan was born a Security State And will ‘live’ forever as a Security State.
There will never be state of peace between India and Pakistan. India will continue to produce the likes of Modi-Pakistan needs a leader who has ‘the grasp of this truth’.
CAN YOU BECOME THE ONE WITH THIS, VISION IMRAN KHAN?
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