Eight years of Four M's: Musharraf, MQM, Muslim League and Mullah

The unfortunate combination of the four M’s namely:

1 Musharraf (representing Military)
2 MQM (mis-representing Indian Muhajirs)
3 Muslim League (representing the opportunists of Punjab)
4 Mullah (represented by MMA)

has been leading Pakistan to the brink of total catastrophe for the last eight years.

It is common in Pakistan for the military to play active role in power politics by creating firstly a full fledged political party/alliance over-night comprising of opportunists who can give political legitimacy to any military autocrat and secondly hiring a group of pseudo-intellectuals who can give intellectual backing and support portraying any dictator to be the messiah of the nation. That is why except Mahmud Khan Achakzai most of the politicians have been used or exploited by these invisible forces in the last 60 gloomy years of Pakistan’s political history.

The pseudo-intelligentsia has also been there to defend the interests of these classes intellectually contrary to the interests of poor and deprived masses of Pakistan.

In the words of C.W.Mills - who is considered the pioneer of the Power Elite Model: “There are more people of knowledge in the service of power than people of power in the service of knowledge".

In case of Pakistan the high rank officers in the military forces, intelligence agencies coupled with the feudal and clergy play the role of movers and shakers like that of the power elite in US politics.

After the successful coup de’tat of Musharraf in October 1999, the agencies formed PML (Q) - the first fruit of Musharraf’s dictatorial regime following the precedent of another seemingly rootless and low profile dictator Zia ul Haq back in late 70’s. Then followed the MQM - which was also established during Zia regime - to join the camp of the dictator in order to take advantage of his illegitimacy and ethnicity at the same time for their future nefarious designs.

While the proud sons of the land like Mahmud Khan Achakzai, Imran Khan, Akbar Bugti, CJ Iftikhar along with the other deposed judges of the Supreme Courts and lately Benazir Bhutto did not bow their heads to the dictator and opted to face the consequences, the religious clergy, represented by MMA , on the contrary , could not resist the color of dollars shown by the dictator through his faithful brokers to compete in the race for loot and plunder.

Master minded by Fazal Rehman and naively figure headed by Qazi, the religious clergy surrendered to the dictatorial rule of Musharraf by legitimizing and helping him to extend his rule whenever he needed it.

Using the differences of political parties to his advantage, Musharraf has been helping to reward the fabricated PML (Q) for their pre-planned criminal support for the dictator. He has also been transforming the fascist MQM and malicious Mullah’s JUI into a mainstream party and trying to malign and abandon parties having popular support like PPP into the background by using military tactics like targeted killing.

Lastly he has been successful in sidelining the nationalist parties who have been demanding their legal and constitutional rights and provincial autonomy in not-so-loud words.

After eight years of authoritarian and autocratic rule of these M’s Pakistan has transformed into a hell filled with price hike, ethnic tensions, political victimisation, hatred for the security forces, exploitation of national assets, load shedding, scarcity of basic necessities of life and above all reactionary suicide bombers.

Abandoning independent Judiciary, ethnic cleansing of innocent Pakhtuns in NWFP and FATA, rise in religious extremism as a reaction to the export of terrorists by ISI to Afghanistan and supporting them in FATA are the other gifts of these M'S.

The worst case scenario is a nightmare – a situation wherein the nuclear weapons will be in the hands of religious extremists who were politically represented by MMA, trained by ISI and taught by JUI’s demagogues in the past. It will be a disastrous situation wherein the whole region will depict a picture of ashes if the rule of these M's continues.

It is concluded therefore that:

a) The result of four M’s rule is dragging Pakistan and the people of Pakistan fast into the ravine of destruction by sticking to the reigns of power by any and every means.

b) Secondly Pakistan once a poor but peaceful country is becoming the most unfavorable country for the poor masses of Pakistan to dwell in and will continue to be until the four M’s are discouraged and rejected by the masses of Pakistan.