The country is abuzz with rumours that a breakthrough has been achieved in the secret -channel talks between the government and the PPP. The government’s sudden decision to close down the special cell that had been set up in the NAB for pursuing the corruption cases against BB and her husband, comes as a substantiating evidence in this regard.
Burying the politics of acrimony is always good news. If a deal between BB’s party and Musharraf’s government has really been struck, it would mean that BB after all hadn’t indulged in unpardonable corruption, and Musharraf isn’t really the most despicable usurper of power, and desecrator of the constitution in the world. The moral lesson to be learnt from such an eventuality is that you can’t burn a candle at both ends.
The political lessons are:
(i) Even dictatorship can’t flourish forever without credible political support.
(ii) A political party’s credibility lies in its potential to win back governance after it has lost it. A party that cannot force or manipulate its way back into the corridors of power, is at best a gathering of dropouts or rejected candidates.
What BB Sahiba and General Sahib have to keep in mind while forming a coalition of the enlightened and moderate forces is, that the people of Pakistan are in no mood to shed aside or away their hatred of imperialism and its loyal servants.
The final battle in Pakistan will be fought between those who are seen as agents of imperialism, and those who have taken up arms against the imperial designs of the one and only imperial power seen on the earth today.
07-04-2007
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