Published: Jan 27, 2012
http://www.viewpointonline.net/the-unholy-troika.html
Looking back at 2007, people were under the so-called impression, that there was a genuine momentum, seeking the supremacy of the law in Pakistan. Granted that it is a novel concept, a nation that fails to respect, its basic law, called its Constitution, it was a far cry. Some think, that it was more of a "Go Musharraf Go" campaign in reality. It was cleverly dubbed as "struggle for the freedom of judiciary", for a rather obvious reason. The strategy was to really unseat the dictator, who very cunningly usurped powers from an elected Prime Minister and promptly dispatched him to a ten-year-long exile to the Holy Lands. One has to sit in amazement and wonder, how could a citizen of Pakistan, otherwise convicted for a supposedly heinous crime of "hijacking a plane", be awarded a speedy pardon and placed on an equally speeding jet, bound to the brotherly kingdom.
The honorable judiciary did not take any "suo moto" notice of such a fundamental violation of justice. Nor did they take any notice, when many Khaki men of honor, trampled over the 'Constitution of Pakistan'. Again, what a travesty that our Supreme judiciary not only did not live up to the oath of their office at such instances, but aided and abetted in an otherwise illegal act.
The common theme invoked to white wash this otherwise act of treason by the generals was always the 'Doctrine of Necessity'. What a necessity and what a strange solution! At all such occasions, the Khakis were truly at fault. Whatever justification was provided, it was.
Many able commentators have opined on this unique situation and rightly termed it as a deliberate build up of the 'Security State'. The 'Security State' is provided ideological façade through the Muslim League.
Each time Khakis take over, they reinvent the Muslim League. Add a suffix [Quaid, Conventional, Council, Pagara, Junejo, Nawaz, Chatta, and so on…], and then place their surrogates at the helm of the re-invented Muslim League. General Zia-ul-Haq brought a Lahori businessman named Nawaz Sharif to the fore. Needless to say, he came up with a version of Muslim League, denoted by his initial N, as well.
The N League has had made its two stints in the government. One was dismissed by a 'presidential coup' engineered by the Khakis while the other directly conducted by General Pervez Musharraf.
By the way, the N League also has the distinct honor of sending its goons to vandalize the apex court of this nation. All because Mr. Sharif was miffed with the judiciary at one point, while he was in this glorious assumption, that he was the "Ameer ul Momineen."
Amazingly, the same Military that created him at one point, sent Mr. Sharif packing too. All because Mr. Sharif was getting two big for his shoes. He decided to replace General Musharraf. A guy who perhaps was responsible for the "misadventure" in Kargil. Mr. Sharif opted for a fellow Kashmiri, General Butt. Ordinarily, it was within Mr. Sharif's constitutional authority to do so, but he just totally forgot one golden rule. Never bite the hand that once fed you. Hence Mr. Sharif was deposed and incarcerated for acting too smart for his notoriety.
Come to think of it, the N League is the mother of all parties to the right. The rest of the religious and fundamental parties, are just there for the noise value. In reality, none of the others matter much, nor they have the ability to form any government. But clearly present to sing the chorus, as needed.
One was under the impression that Nawaz Sharif would have learnt his lessons by now. But politics is indeed a strange game. Nawaz Sharif who supposedly credits himself, for the restoration of deposed judiciary, seems to be back in action, playing for his former king makers. Fact is that, Mr. Sharif has realized, that he has to sing the Khaki tune to be back in Islamabad.
Even the people with least amount of sense, can sense the partisanship of the apex court. Not only in the Memogate but even the acquittal of Mr. Sharif says a lot.
But as they say, anything is possible in the land of pure. So long as we have the right-wing parties fronting for the military and the honorable benches supporting their alliance, the possibility of real change is fairly bleak. This unholy troika is truly responsible for the degradation of Pakistan's real political progress.
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