If the government of Mian Nawaz Sharif has neither any plan nor any desire to pull the P.I.A out of its long and deteriorating illness, how can we trust him with the custodianship of this country’s health, the challenges of which are infinitely higher than one of its small but symbolically important institutions?
The fate of the P.I.A and Pakistan is in the same hands. Whereas the P.I.A is up for sale, the turn of the country has yet to come. This statement may sound harsh, but the fact is that the P.I.A since its birth was regarded as a proud symbol of Pakistan’s emergence as a progressing sovereign country. It had been enjoying the distinction of being Pakistan’s national carrier.
It’s destruction began when it fell into the hands of the political parties whose workers in thousands were recruited into it as compensation for their political services.
It has been abundantly clear since the fall of General (R ) Musharraf that our ‘elected’ civil governments are interested only in selling it off for ‘unknown’ benefits to the favoured buyers.
Mr. Asif Ali Zardari failed in his bid to do it. Now it is the PML (N)’s turn to try its luck. The strategy has been to let the institution sink deeper and deeper into bankruptcy though mismanagement and rampant corruption, and thus create a convincing case for getting rid of it.
Cynical people like me have good reasons to ask: “If you can think of getting rid of a national institution, what can prevent you from wanting to get rid of the Nation itself?”
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