Bye Bye Mush

Maybe as a nation we have developed a thirst for sensationalism; that is why when the general resigned so effortlessly, I was quite taken aback. I was hoping for another round of political melodrama but I guess the "last punch" proved pretty heavy.

I was among those unfortunates who due to lack of vision rejoiced when this guy took over the country. In our naivety we forgot that the democracy needs to take its roots in the system and for this it needs time. If the army keeps on poking its nose every now and then, how do we expect democracy to flourish? Just because the army intervention; we, the people of Pakistan completely forgot what PPP and PML-N had offered us in their early tenures. They themselves were no angels but after nine years of junta rule, they appear to be the saviors. If army had remained to the borders and had kept on serving rather than ruling the nation; these saviors would also have faced the same fate as PML-Q.

Still it was good to see him go (although not the way I wanted). We hang democracy but let the junta go with a guard-of-honor.

It was disturbing that people still had "mixed" feelings to see him go but on the second thought I don't blame them. I know it is difficult to be optimistic in these times of despair. It would be foolish to consider this ousting as a panacea for the problems of Pakistan; still, generals are at their best in the battlefield and they have no place in the public offices.

Did anything good come out of these nine years? I think in his efforts to make Uncle Sam happy and bath the country in enlightened moderation, he did loose the reigns on media; so much that it went out of his control. Media got its complete freedom and these guys are not going to sit quietly now. Every government would be under their scrutinization. Secondly the 'lawyers' movement' which emerged from this whole fiasco stands for one of the core problems faced by this nation; free judiciary. I hope in future no Justice Munir legalizes army rule under the umbrella of law of necessity.

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed—that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness…but when a long train of abuses and usurpations , pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security".

True! People don’t talk like this anymore.

Long live Pakistan.