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Nuclear Pakistan On A Slippery Path
Nuclear Pakistan On A Slippery Path
When we walk into the pages of the history, it is amazingly revealed that
most of the nations or power centers on the globe destroyed themselves in
the arrogance of their unblessed reliance on the strength of their weaponry,
skilled forces, logistics infrastructure and their developed economy.
Undoubtedly this blemished strength coupled with fascist political leadership
forced their judgments to concur the other nations and their resources. The
initial success on the basis of this mighty vitality was, nevertheless, achieved
instantly but at a later stage it was instrumental to diminishing them as
nation and its cultural hypothesis. Even in most of the cases their names
were sunk in the history. Scholars have admitted this fact and Historians have
inked it.
In the current history of post cold war in late 20 th century, drastic territorial
changes emerged on the map of the globe and resulted rise of a unilateral
power. Although the blended democracy has changed the phenomenon yet
the principles remain the same. In my humble opinion it’s a historical cycle
which takes place one after one and nations having absolute power have to
answer the history itself. The survival of such states remains on the sky only
with their disciplined attitudes and liberties within their own nation owing to
the democratic norms and respect for the other nations.
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We are still under dreadful threat of losing some more geographical areas if
we would not embrace the will of the people and straightened up our path to
lead this dynamic nation. The deterrence developed to integrate the nation
and its geographical boundaries would fail miserably to keep it intact even
would jeopardize other way around. The arguments against this inference
taken as Pakistan is more protected (in military sense) than ever, is based on
securing time factor only. The more time is passed, the more closer she would
be to the diminishing point.
The problem here is not that nation has chosen to die; but the so-called
mother, who has been keeping the child under stress of poverty and basic
amenities, persuaded the child to believe on an unwarranted constant ignited
threat from the neighboring country, which has made their game that could
lead to more than one outcome including her dying. This fact is not clear to
her; it is unknown to her.
This is what happened in Pakistan, piled-up choices were on conveyor belt
and whosoever ruler came to lead the nation, picked up one choice most
suitable to his own veiled manifesto and started working on it. Here comes
the question of leadership who should have pursuit wisdom leading a nation
to bring her into peace of mind.
Before I reach to conclude on the subject I would like to register a quick and
brief background of the United States. In a sense, authority became symbol
of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning,
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civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic
change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence
of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Yet it all happened
in a democratic way through popular vote.
The way, in Pakistan, we are facing and urging that abstract political theories
are manifest in everyday life, we need to unflinchingly explore the unsavoury
emotions that threaten social hierarchy, so that extremists (in vast meaning)
could be dished out as an unrelenting diet of contempt. But I do not agree to
pretend that the day's democrats are saints. They invested in contempt as
enthusiastically as did extremists.
Then what left in our basket, how we may transform our humble subjects into
proud citizens? And just how successful would be the transformation? At once
history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, poisoning the Minds of
the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about
democracy. So it is imperative to stop bringing such a wide variety of political
experiences over and over, the constitutional amendment is a certain key to
the solution. Preemptive strikes from the cultural fronts with the assistance of
civil society should be taken into hand. The recent scenario on composite
dialogue with India, under the global threat of terrorism, is one of the choices
to curb cross-border infiltration which we have already taken into
consideration but with the poor management: either with the International
game planners or local non-state actors, strict adherence with the lawful
action within the state is ought to be accomplished. And at the same time
cohesive measures should be adopted to curtail the longstanding need of
budgetary restraint on the economy in letter and spirit. This would attract
adequate approval of our nation living with an impression of deprivation
syndrome and the international stakeholders as well besides the western
intellectuals who are keenly watching the socio-economic and political
developments in Pakistan. These steps would also help to mechanically
evaporate ultimate threats felt by the globe from the land of Pakistan.
By Naeem Baig.
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Dated 5th September, 2009.