Afghan Press Author: Rooh-ul-Amin

Crest and trough is a constant element of history and the leaders who destine a nation with apex of success are destined with esteem in a perennial stream of greatness. A leader who flounders into salvaging his nation is lashed forever for his flunks. Indeed the rare in-camera session of the two houses, which is going to be held today at 7:00 p.m, will take a test of the top leaders of Pakistan including military leadership. The military leaders will brief the politicians about the acuity of the situation. For the purpose they have included the names even of those politicians who are not the members of either houses so that no body could be left of their precious views regarding a conform agenda for the war on terror and the plummet of Pakistan’s economy.

The session is an aftermath of the current challenges Pakistan is facing these days.

Unlike past they must have to be short on clichés, slogans and very long on ideas, reason and sobriety. If they fail in detaching itself from the so-called flag bearer of democracy US in its war on terror and demonstrating a sense of discretion then Pakistan is utterly tied with a bleak and barren future. The decision of the new government for buying US Cobra helicopter for 2.6 billion Pakistani rupees is widely abhorred because Pakistan is already under a severe grip of economic recession and buying it will drag it into more depression.

Here the people belonging to lower stratum are compelled on selling their own kidneys for earning their livelihood and some of them on infanticide because they are unable to feed their children. The decision came when the entire nation is buried under the weight of foreign debts amounting to US $ 44 billion and the nation today is not in the position to sustain more burdens.

When it launched at its nuclear programme the entire nation assured that it will eat grass but it will support the government decision of making nuclear plants.

But there were a few also who detested it as economic burden on Pakistan and they were for me sympathetic Pakistanis.

Here is an interesting story that has some thing in general with the new government’s decision for buying US cobra copters.

When we were children we used to hear a story of a person who was snatched of his Kalashnikov but his enemies were wisest enough not taking away his bandolier so that every one on his way could see how humiliatingly he was snatched of his Kalashnikov. On of his familiars asked him what had happened to him and he narrated the story in an exultant manner claiming that if his enemies had tried to snatch his bandolier he would have killed them. Now the case is obvious that Pakistan is sustaining the violation of its frontier by the uni-polar super power US but it has been always narrating it exultantly and titling its arch enemy US as a reliable friend. The US war on terror has been a huge burden on Pakistan as in the last nine months it saw 685 bomb explosions that left 4,171 people dead. And yet more are to come because the terrorists are hell-bent one shaking the edifice of Pakistan.

Its the defalcation of former Punjab government that lavishly used 500 million rupees just for endorsing the vote bank and publicity that made Pakistan feebler coupled with the current wave of terror that fled away the investors out of the country and the local investors are passing through a constant fear of loss.

It has paralyzed the new government’s affairs and it has to expand its begging-bowl in front of world community for at least an aid and debt of $ 100 billion which is a slap on the former government always thumping chest for breaking the begging-bowl and befooling the nation with the hollow slogans.

It was a delusion and the rulers drowned the nation in it.

Now the in-camera session is coming near and it will leave indelible imprints on the political history of Pakistan because in world war one it was Sir Winston Churchill who took the drowning ship of England to a safe harbour against Hitler’s Germany when it was trouncing country after country.

The English felt that Chamberlain was too much coward and diplomatic so he was toppled and was replaced with Churchill for it was the need and slogan of that hour.

Now alleging the Kashmir freedom fighters as terrorists and titling India as one of friends in South Asia have slept our president’s heels.

If it is so then why a huge nuclear arsenal was piled up at the cost of poverty, illiteracy, terrorism and dilapidated health care.

Moreover at the cost of Kashmir we have already lost our eastern wing—now Bangladesh. I think it is at the behest of these monetary agencies that Zardari the president of Pakistan labeled Kashmir freedom fighters as terrorists and titling India as friend, beyond it, it has no sagacity.

One thing for which Mr. Zardari would not be castigated is that it is something which he has received from his predecessors when the former prime minister of Pakistan Mir Zafarullah Jamali once said that there is no two-nation theory and henceforth would be only one-nation theory and these monetary agencies lent economic aid to Pakistan with only condition of devaluating Pak currency and the former prime minister Shaukat Aziz accepted it without a whimper. We Pakistanis are now not worried why Mr. Zardari did so as it has now become and cannot be retract anyway but we are deeply anxious for how long we will be dependent on foreign economic stilts at the cost of our sovereignty?