Benazir, barking up the wrong tree!

IIPM, GURGAON

It may take ages for Pakistan to reduce the role of army in polity

Winston Churchill once quipped that “a politics based on personality & not principle leads to unspeakable agony”. Well! Never have his words sounded as appropriate as they do in case of Benazir Bhutto’s latest overtures towards her arch rival Musharraf. If we focus on her negotiation terms with Musharraf, it becomes clear that Benazir is more interested in seeing Musharraf without his khaki-green & less on moving out all the khaki-greens prowling on the streets of downtown Islamabad. In other words, Benazir & her party’s top brass want Musharraf to step down, but are more or less silent on sending the army back to the barracks.

This is a disturbing trend. Since its creation in 1947, army in Pakistan has regularly intervened in the democratic process on the pretext of ‘maintaining stability’ & ‘restoring order’. Nevertheless, the consequences have been disastrous both for the Pakistani society as well as its neighbours.

Benazir is wooing the army because she knows that it is not possible to win election on her own. She needs the army to rig the elections for her. “Benazir has two negative points in her favour (sic); soft corner for Rushdie and that she is more pliant to dictation from foreign powers than any one in Pakistan. Voters will go for Imran instead,” Sheikh Mutahir Ahmed, noted analyst from University of Karachi told B&E. Benazir knows that the present public unrest is directed against Musharraf & she will win them all, if she can remove him from power. The Iftekhar agitation has been mistaken as a tirade against Musharraf, an individual, and not against the military rule. And they don’t understand what ails democracy in Pakistan. The sooner, they realise, the better for ‘purity’ of democracy in ‘Pak’istan.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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