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© 2007-2008. All rights reserved. AhmedQuraishi.com & PakNationalists Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved.
Zardari Democracy
When Mr. President says anyone not agreeing with his government’s policy will be thrown out, does he mean the military? My prayer is no different than our President’s: may God give us the strength to save Pakistan. But I’m better than the President of Pakistan, at least I got the spellings right.
Tuesday, 14 October 2008.
LAHORE, Pakistan—A few weeks ago I received an email which showed the ‘strut’ of Mr. Zardari’s English skills.
Although one of my friends doubted its credibility my own belief in its truth was reinforced by Ardeshir Cowasjee’s latest column that was published just a few days ago. There isn’t any reason to doubt a man whose sheer sincerity, courage and patriotism makes many of us Muslim Pakistanis look like morons. Our new President’s heroics just don’t end here. He has committed much greater sins.
After going for his first official visit to the United States, the Pakistani President spends half his time at the U.N. mourning the loss of his ‘beloved’ wife. Yet he finds time to flirt with an American Presidential candidate and his foreign girlfriends.
For Mr. President to say and do such things when his country is the target of suicide bombings, a complete economic meltdown and mounting international pressure on various issues, Pakistani President Asif Zardari certainly looked more like an immature playboy than the President of a nuclear armed country.
Apart from the Sarah Palin debacle, we’ve seen other instances where our President has shown himself to be ignorant of ground realities. Even a Pakistani fruit vendor knows better. Mr. Zardari thinks that the world has become a much safer place because of President Bush’s ‘leadership’. He has been constantly saying that anyone not agreeing with his government would be thrown out, obviously referring to the military.
In short, the honorable President of Pakistan has made a fool out of himself and the people he (unfortunately) represents.
These feudal ‘democrats’ have never drawn a line between their private lives and their public engagements primarily because they’ve never differentiated between the two. They think they own the country for the sheer number of land holdings that they have. Nothing clarifies it more than Zardari’s recent interview to Fox News where he claimed that even his daughter could be the President. A President symbolizes the will and character of a nation. Therefore anything he does is seen as a reflection of the aspirations of his people. In that context Asif Ali Zardari just doesn’t have what it takes to be a President. Voting can get you elected, sir, but it is your leadership that gains you respect.
Everyday I see our ‘experts’, thinkers and political analysts talk about the fact that the ‘new democratic’ government must be given ample time to play its role, after all the military has had more than its share of power. Nothing can be more naïve. For one should ask these anchormen and ‘accomplished’ analysts whether we are a democracy in the first place. The people of Pakistan did not vote for the PPP to hear Kashmiri freedom fighters being called terrorists nor did they did vote for the ISI to be put under an unaccountable Zardari loyalist with a tainted history.
Did the people of Pakistan vote for isolating our friend China and the complete and senseless American subservience by this government? Do they accept incompetent personal goons being raised to the echelons of power in every department and institution, from diplomats to ministers? If the answer to these questions is in the negative then are we truly living in a democracy?
My prayer is no different than our President’s: may God give us the strength to save Pakistan. But I’m better than the President of Pakistan, at least I got the spellings right.
Mr. Gulzar is a Pakistani college student based in Lahore studying LLB (Hons.). He can be reached at hamza.gulzar@gmail.com
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