What Strategic Dialogue
What Strategic Dialogue
An army officer gets promoted not by mere ability but by a complicated hole punching process involving some military examinations,a few courses and above all by getting good chits from 12 to 20 different seniors who he encounters in the course of the journey from a subaltern to generalship.
Such being generalship summarized , it would not be an exaggeration to state that Pakistans political system was brought to its knees by its generals constantly conspiring to destroy democracy in Pakistan.
Much fun is being made of Pakistans political system worldwide by citing the personality of the army chief overriding Pakistans political system in the forthcoming so called strategic dialogue with USA.
This is nothing unusual .USA traditionally likes to do one window solutions with Banana states like Pakistan and it suits the Americans to handpick Pakistans military chief.
It is no secret that the USA has played a negative and dirty role in undermining democracy and popular rule in Pakistan by traditionally aiding Pakistans dictators right from 1958.
While the Americans are forced to deal with slow moving bulky democracies like India because of fear of China , in case of midgets like Pakistan the Americans are happy dealing with Pakistans military .The real allies of US.Pakistan is only some state but its military rulers or military chiefs have been traditionally USA's best bet.
Initially the Americans started with Ayub Khan who was their best collaborator in South Asia.But he fell out of favour and after 1965 found him deserted by his spiritual father called USA.He made false professions that he wanted friends not masters after his master had fired him .
He was removed by a grand student agitation in 1968-69 and Pakistans second military ruler Yahya Khan became USA's darling albeit for a short time.His holding of general elections on population basis made Pakistans civil military and political elites worst nightmare a reality i.e holding elections on direct adult franchise, one man one vote.The hated Bengalis would lead Pakistan !
The result was war and secession and the 1971 defeat for Pakistan Army.
Mr ZA Bhutto was regarded as a dangerous adventurer by the Americans.They never forgave him for advising the Arabs to impose the Oil Embargo.He was removed with a US financed agitation centering in Karachi and Lahore with a military chief handpicked by USA much earlier while he was on course in USA in mid 1950s.
After 1977 all Pakistani governments were puppets of Pakistans military , sometimes known as Troika , sometimes corps commanders and sometimes National Security Council.
Nawaz Sharif made a heroic attempt in 1997-99 to reduce Pakistans militaty to size.He proved successfully to be a naval mine in destroying Admiral Mansur and a successful anti tank mine in removing the tankman Jahangir Karamat but his third mine layin attack was pre-empted by the clever and resolute gunner Mahmud who ensured that gunner chief Musharraf becomes Pakistans chief executive in 1999.
Musharraf was USA's darling after 9/11 and his loyalty to his master was phenomenal although later research proves that his U turn in reality was a double U turn and he successfully hunted with the US hound and ran with the Islamist wolves.
Rash as a man Musharraf played too many times with his luck and was not caught but he blundered when he ordered the political and possibly physical elimination of Nawab Akbar Bugti in 2006.
Now overconfident Musharraf drove his handpicked chief justice in such a corner that the chief justice had no choice but to fight back for his very own survival.This gesture of desperate self defence was glorified in Pakistan as lawyers movement and Musharrafs luck finally ran out.
Somewhere unwittingly in removing his hand picked CJ Musharraf gave his opponents a reason to rally.Had the Chief Justice been a Sindhi , no civil movement would have taken place.Where after all was Pakistans civil society when Sajjad Ali Shah was removed ?
Fate forced Musharraf to negotiate with the PPP and events forced Musharraf and his generals to negotiate the controversial NRO.In signing the NRO the Pakistani generals and Musharraf was not alone in NRO , lost all credibility as a force against financial corruption in Pakistans political system.
By a gory chain of events Benazir was removed , some say for not honouring her secret agreement with powers that control Pakistan external and internal.
BBs successor Mr Asif Zardari was a man with limited credibility.This suited Pakistans generals ideally in regaining their lost credibility.
A secret but well coordinated campaign was started by known journalists notorious for links with the military and the military intelligence.The Pakistani judiciary historically a conservative group in league with Pakistans military and civil service also joined the attack on Zardari , using the right reasons but motivated by the wrong motivation.
All Pakistans so called civil rights movement came to a zero end.Note that Pakistans so called civil society did not launch any movement when Nawab Akbar Bugti was murdered.But when a judge with the name Chaudhri came under fire this civil society was vibrant ?
Now once again Pakistans political system is a laughing stock of the world.The Americans are a party to it , be it placing Pakistans army chief in the American Jewish ranking of top 100 people in the world or be it the favourite man of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
The dangerous part of the issue is that the more Pakistan tilts in direction of being an army with a state,the greater would be the chances of Pakistans Balkanisation.Because the army is only one province while Pakistan is a multi ethnic state.
If this trend continues Pakistans Army may be just confined to Punjab alone.Yes with all the nukes but little else.Perhaps this suits the USA also and perhaps this is USAs game plan.
One is at a loss to understand what the so called strategic dialogue is all about . A strategic dialogue in which the whole world makes fun of Pakistans puppet democracy and glorifies Pakistans army chief.
A strategic dialogue in which no Pakistani politician is in the lead.
It is time that the USA openly declare that they regard Pakistan as an army with a state rather than a state with an army.
What would be achieved in this strategic dialogue.The USA will not be able to nominate Pakistans as its heir in Afghanistan.How can the Americans do it when they have nominal control over Afghanistan.
The hard fact is that Pakistan is deeply divided b ethnicity , by ideology and by classes.War with India is being made more and more imminent by USA by playing on Pakistans fears.
The final button and override is now with a pilot called history and Pakistans generals and politicians or even Indias general and politicians mere pawns in the game.
The USA sees a coming Indo Pak conflict as a good opportunity to dominate the region with both India and Pakistan exhausted and on their knees.
The US Pakistan strategic dialogue is a grand mockery of Pakistans political system and must be accepted as such.
When Pakistans history is written many years after its demise the historians would agree on one point at least hopefully .That Pakistan was destroyed by its generals !
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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  --
Albert Einstein !!!
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