Muslim India

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

The cacophony of voices raised by different sections of Pakistani people, all the way from Imran Khan, to Asma Jahangir, and Qazi Husain Ahmed to Supreme Court judges and legal luminaries, clearly shows how difficult it will be to figure out who is their real enemy. In this confusion, that real enemy is bound to slip away unscathed, unblemished, unrecognized. For, the current President Musharraf is just a temporary proxy. If he goes down, some other will come forward, with possibly more evil agenda. It is difficult for the enraged mob in such frenzied atmosphere to think rationally and plan any longer term remedies to cure the affliction that has dogged Pakistan from its very founding. Pakistan is carved by the wily British conspirator Winston Churchill, advising his protégé, Lord Wavell, to ‘keep something for us’. Pakistan was carved out of Indian subcontinent to serve the West as a garrison country to serve US and UK to exploit its armed forces and its strategic location to safeguard its imperialist interest in this part of the world. Pakistan had received western aid worth billions of dollars over 60 long years, to fatten its fighting forces, that could be of strategic help to the US and UK, at the time their need. The ‘martial’ races for Punjab and Frontier, long a mainstay of India’s colonial British army, were snatched out of liberated India’s joint command, to exclusively serve the British and American military interests safeguarding the ‘well of power’ – the gulf oil wells, and to become a bulwark against Soviet Union forces ever pressing south to reach the shores of Arabian sea and Indian Ocean.

The army thus raised as Pakistan’s actual raison d’etre, has completely remained isolated from its people. Several attempts by the people to try and get their own representatives in place, to rule Pakistan democratically, had been frustrated as the army and its handlers in Washington, had always lurked over the horizon, as the ultimate saviours of Pakistan. They managed to appear as the only effective and final arbitrator of Pakistan’s integrity and security and its survival as a state. Pakistan’s internal as well as external policies were shamelessly dictated by the foreigners, while the people were deluded to think they were free people, free to decide their own fate. That was and is Pakistani peoples most unfortunate and enduring mistake. Though India got it freedom on August 15, 1947, Pakistan was merely transferred from British to the Americans as the sole supporters, sustainers and owner of this piece of land, that Muslims all over the world were fooled into believing Pakistan as a nation formed in the name of Islam. Ideologically, that idea was potent and is still potent. But Muslims in Pakistan could hardly realise that the ground under their feet, is always shaky and slippery. They are under the overpowering clutches of the army, which itself was propped by Western aid and armament, ready to carry out its task, even on piecemeal, project by project hiring out. It is surprising that a proud people like Pakistanis could not make out, how they had remained a slave country for half a century and army was in the forefront of the perpetual sell-out to the West, first US and UK, now US and Israel representing global corporate interests of the robber barons.

Pakistanis will have to fight a fresh liberation struggle, to throw out the US and Israeli interest in the country’s vital global security assets, probably with the help of their Chinese and Indian neighbours. To liberate Pakistan, will be a big step to ensure the liberty and independence of all the adjoining neighbours of Pakistan.

Pakistanis will have to decide once for all, that their armed forces are not mercenary forces, ready for the hire to their long term permanent client. The nation will have to protect and dignify and enfranchise its own people first. That freedom, liberty and independence will not be gained by the foolish call for the US President Bush to intervene. I can only quote a very pertinent couplet from Meer Taqi Meer:


Meer kiya saade hain, bemar hoowe jiske tufayl

Usee attar ke londay se dawa lete hain

(How simpleton is Meer, that he is buying medicine from the same son of the quack, who had been the very cause of his illness.)


Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai


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