Old Wine, Still Older Bottles

Babar,
People filled the streets in protest when a genuine political crisis occured when CJ was suspended. But they don't care for the anti-Musharraf agenda of some politicians or anti-Army wet dreams of our neighbors.

Instead of being disappointed at the Supreme Court or the awam, Musharraf's adversaries should prepare themselves for facing the public at the polls.

There are big questions to be answered...

Why did Nawaz make a deal to get out of Pakistan, and then deny it just to get back??

Why did Mullahs waste 5 precious years ranting about Shariah instead of creating more jobs and improving governance in NWFP??

Why did Baloch sardars oppose development projects with terrorism instead of voicing their concerns through democratic means??

Why did extremist elements abduct and beat people who didn't quite agree with their narrowminded religious preferences??

Mushy made many mistakes (e.g. May 12th incident, CJ dismissal, etc) in his 8 year rule but he also achieved remarkable feats for the people in his rule. People are not yet ready to throw him out by the cuff. The man deserves a fair chance to continue as a civilian president, if the parliament elects him on Oct 6.

The only people who could bring people to street are
a) MQM
b) Molvis * thanks to madarsa students *
c) PPP

pick your choice, mullahs running the madarsas are occupying government land - if they even try , they were all be homeless.

There was a time, only a few years ago when pakistanis claimed that only 3 percent of teh pakistanis are jihadis and a jihadi party will never come to power. It is heartening to see the urstrlya nd zeemax almost expecting the jihadi take over of their country.

It is sad to see that the position of the next prime minister of pakistan is decided in the US. The opposition parties meeting was held in london. Apparently many private companies are shipping their directors abroad for board meetings.

The jihadi meetings are also not held in pakistan, it is held in waziristan.

At last it is a fight for pakistan, between the army and the jihjadis. The first round is won by the jihadis, they have cornered waziristan. The next will be the battle for karachi, it is half won by the jihadic criminal elements, by teh way what is the difference between a jihadi and a criminal

... and the theater of the absurd continues. The general has allowed BB and her husband to keep the estimated $1.5 billion in kickbacks he had been trying to recover since 8 years - in return for election support; plus her notorious accomplices in the then beurocracy i.e. Salman Farooqi (IPPs fame), Wajid Shamsul-Hasan (Artifacts smuggling in diplomatic cargo for Rockwood fame) and Rahman Malik (BBs personal SHO with solid god Rolex watches fame) go scot free as well.

The most cruel factor in above is that while kickbacks from SGS-Cotecna etc, strictly speaking, did not directly go out of the nation's pockets - the 40% over invoicing of IPP projects paid as kickbacks to BB & Company was loaded in the power tariffs, and the common man is still paying it off every month in his electricity bill.

Amazing, isn't it?

realistically when have the politicians been able to mobilise the people against military or civilian dictators?

Political parties have played a role, and usually it's the confrontationists who get the most traction with the public.

It's usually highhandedness on part of the establishment that triggers a backlash. If i recall my history it was the roughing up of students that triggered of the ayub khan protests and it was the scale of the 77 rigging that did the same in 77.

I think its not the politicians. Its we as Pakistanis who have become dead.

I talk to lot of my friends who are doing well professionally. To them, the issues of justice, lawlessness, education, flour prices etc. dont matter as long thy get their paycheck on time.

We have stopped thinking about issues and find it convenient to leave to the self imposed generals to take decisions because then we dont have to share responsibility for his actions "We didnt bring hi. He imposed himself on us".

I think politicians do not want to bring the people on the street in the first place. Why bother when there is so much comfort and reward in appeasement, corruption, and complacence. It takes lion's heart to tread on the path of Abdul Rashid Ghazi Shaheed and that of girl students of Jamiah Hafsa. The evil of kufr has become so shameless, vicious, and vengeful. So its end will be as viscious, and vengeful too. Its written on the wall.