In my early childhood, I heard a story from my father; want to share it with you people.
There was a Roman King in ancient times. Once he comes up with a strange idea, he ordered his Prime Minister (PM) to prepare a list of 100 foolish persons in his country. The list had to be prepared in such a way that the most foolish person of the country should be at the top of the list and so on.
After several days of struggle and research conducted by the PM; he prepared a list of 100 fools according to their level of foolishness and presented it to the King. The king opened the list; he was very much surprised and aggravated when he found his own name at the top of the list among other fools. He heatedly asked the PM; what kind of list you had come up with? Am I the most foolish person in your view in the country?
PM replied, your highness, a decision had been made by you last year, which lead your name at the top of the list. After King’s further inquiry, he disclosed the whole matter, PM said: My lord, “Last year you borrowed 100 camels of treasure to an unknown trader without knowing his background and competence, so in my opinion you made a blunder and act of imprudence. No other person in the country had achieved this level of idiocy. So this is the reason for your name at the top.
The King smiled and said, if the trader comes back and returned all the goods and commodities with interest according to his promise; than what should I do with you and your list? Prime Minister replied confidentially, I am not sure about my future, but I will definitely put his name at the top of the list as a replacement of yours.
Now, what is the objective of this tale? Why I am quoting it here, not just for fun or sort of just for laugh gauges. In my point of view, it has a direct relation with Pakistan and its people. We the people of Pakistan are one step ahead of that foolish king, who made a mistake without knowing the attributes of the trader, but what we did?
Now we are raising our fingers on the government policies and its bad governance. We are protesting on streets (rarely), whether it is matter of Afia Siddique, Drone Attacks, Bad Governance, Corruption, Bribery, Inflation or the matter of Usama Bin Laden. Now; we are just whipping the ground, the snake had gone far away in the red zone.
We elected this Government by our votes. At the time of election we were very much aware about the character and mentality of those people who are sitting in the government right now. And I am sure; we will definitely choose these people again in the next election, besides knowing there all wrong doings. May be history will forgive and forget that Roman King who was naive of that trader’s attributes and made a mistake accidentally and unintentionally, but we are and we will being punished for our wrong selection. It is a universal rule, by sowing wheat; you will never reap rice, but wheat.
Now we are expecting that this government will solve our all problems and make Pakistan secure and flourishing. They will return our so called sovereignty. I will must quote Hassan Nasar’s statement here,” PAKISTAN IS A SEMI-INDEPENDENT COUNTRY RIGHT FROM ITS BEGINNING”. If politicians and other hidden authorities are responsible for this condition of Pakistan, We are also equally responsible for the current environment in Pakistan.
In my opinion, President Zardari is the most intelligent and smart politician in the history of Pakistan. We should have to admire his policies. He was not a politician by default, like Mian sahab and B.B and many others, but he proved himself the best among all. We admit or not but President Zardari is very much capable of origional democraic politics and doing well. He has not have the clear majority in both houses but how smartely he has taking care of PML (N), PML (Q), MQM, JUI, ANP and above all Army. Also remember he is considered the most unpopular leader of the Pakistan internally and externally. The reopening of Z.A Bhutto’s case makes me a big fan of him. How he played a win-win game with the Judiciary, Chief Justice and people like Baber Awan (who was also a part of Gen. Zia-ul-Haq’s establishment).
So, in this scneario, I am eager to know, BEWAKOOF KON?
Waiting for your opinion.
