We are in the thick of Moharram right now. The law and order agencies should not take any chances and doubly ensure that these forty crucial days leading up to Chehlum pass peacefully. Experience of hindsight tells us that the enemies of this country, in cahoots with their paid agents in Pakistan, let no opportunity slip by which could trigger sectarian strife during Moharram.
Indications are that the PM might start off his foreign visits by first flying into Riyadh. It would be better if he tours Tehran also on his return journey in order to strike a proper balance in Islamabad’s relationship between these two important countries, both of which are near and dear to us. Both are , unfortunately, at daggers drawn with each other to the extent that meat of one is poison of another. Both are sensitive in their relationship with Islamabad and, therefore, none of them should ever get any impression that Pakistan is not neutral and impartial in its relations with them and is tilted towards the one or the other. As a matter of policy, the PM should keep his foreign visits to the barest minimum. His presence in the country is required more than his sojourns abroad. History is replete with instances that the statesmen in the true sense of the word like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, Roosevelt, Churchill and their likes seldom carried out foreign visits and they confined themselves mostly to their countries. He has to set his country’s house in order first for which he has to work overtime. The previous rulers, particularly, during the past two decades or so had destroyed almost every state institution and it is going to be a helluva job to make this country find its feet again.
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