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Pakistan 2009: Planning for future



Written by www.daily.pk
Tuesday, 03 February 2009 21:25


The 21st century Pakistan shares its essential existential dilemma with the rest of the Muslim World, contemporaneously and futuristically. Their common roots and moorings are traceable to Islam, 1430 years ago. Historically, their self-same enemies are: (i) The Christian Crusades; and: (ii) Western European Imperialism-cum-Colonialism.Currently, their confrontationist-conflictual adversaries are: (i)21st Century New International Western Eruo-American Imperialism-cum-Colonialism, and their regional and indigenous counterparts, ie: a) Indian Imperialism; b) Israeli Imperialism; and: c) Local-National or Indigenous Imperialism, as an Agent and Instrument of International and Regional Imperialism. (i) International Capitalism, as manifest in Globalism and Globalization. (ii)War and Reactive-Reactionary Terrorism: a)State. b) Interstate; and the latest: c)“Non-State” (-so-said). All appear to be converging on Pakistan and the Muslim World, in the garb of the NATO forces, Indian belligerence and Israeli animosity. Hopefully, conditions and circumstances may change for the better, in terms of Sustainable Peace, if USA President Barack Obama’s promissory inaugural address on Tuesday, 20th January, 2009, is an indication of optimism. It was certainly an historic occasion, globally, reminiscent of the Slave Dynasties of the Muslim World. Outgoing President G.W. Bush Jr. tried to hastring him with his punitive parting push to disaster in Iraq, Afghanistan, and especially in the Middle East, with the Israeli invasion of Filistine (Gaza). But in his own and the American interest, as well as Global Peace, he will need to break deliberately, decisively and determinately from the Bush bestiality.

Pakistan and the Muslim Ummah’s World, which are spiritually and innately rooted in Islam, are also Islami’s fine, fulsome fruit. How can they cope with their common adversaries, or enemies, collectively? The sanest and safest way out for them is to return to their ideological roots and messianic moorings for spiritual inspiration and strategic moral motivation: Islam. How can they do that? By learning lessons from their history; and remembering that Islam is innately iconoclastic and anti-Imperialism.

The Pakistan Movement was not just the Freedom Movement of the South Asian Sub-continental British Indian Muslims, it was also their Justified Jihad, or Just War For Sovereign Fraternal Freedom. That is equally true of all the Freedom Movements and Wars of/for Independence of all the Muslim countries of the Muslim World, against European Colonialism. All were Just Jihad for Freedom. In fact, it is the Spirit of Tawhid (integrative unity and oneness) and Jihad (Just and Justified striving and struggle) which has kept Islam alive, altert and active, during the 1430 long years of its crises-crossed history of vicissitudes and victories, tragedies and traumas. Islam is the Muslim Ummah’s, and the Muslim World’s, including Pakistan’s, Identity and Destiny. Their individual and collective future lies in that: Islam as Tawhid and Jihad, as well as Identity and Destiny.

The secular world spends millions of dollars on research and action for implementation, on Psy-War. The West is well-aware of the Psycho-Spiritual Potential and Power of the Spirit and Tradition of Jihad. That is why it misused and absued it by misleading the “Mujahideen” in its Crusade Against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan (1971-1990). And that is also the reason for its continuing campaign against Jihad, prevently and preemptly, in case Pakistan, anyother Muslim country, or the Muslim World, collectively, decide to launch upon a Justified Jihad for Strategic Self-Defence, and Sovereign Fraternal Freedom. And for National Development in Peace and for Peace. The only kind of `Islam’ that is sponsored by its adversaries and enemies is Materialistic, Westernized and `Secularized Islam’, which they seek to hijack for their own anti-Islam issues and objectives, e.g., “Secularized Sufism”, socio-cultural subversion and ideological anarchy. The Muslim-Islami Ummah should never forget that Islam is the secret of its success: past, present and future. Islam as the Spirit of Tawhid and Jihad, and as Identity and Destiny.

Thus, the Psycho-Spiritual strength of the Spirit of Jihad, as policy, strategy, tactics, and practice, is simply undeniable, spiritually, historically, pragmatically and futuristically. But for the above to be possible atall, the Muslim World countries, first and foremost, need to set their own respective houses and homes in order, individually and collectively. Pakistan must start to do so immediately. The ruling PPP should take the first step. But if it cannot, or does not, the rest of the collective leadership of the country will have to take the lead. There is little hope that the PPP will rise to the occasion because of its counter-productive and self-defeating 2008-2009 track record. It has not even probed properly, the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. But Shakespeare offers some cluses in his plays “Hamlet” and “King Lear”. After having sufferance for nine long years from the Gen. Parvez Musharraf Praetorianism, Pakistan simply cannot afford the bedeviling banality of another four years of the continuation of Busharraf’s dictatorial policies under the PPP Political Dictatorship. The following are some of the main hurdles generally and increasingly blamed on the PPP in power, which ought to be overcome at once, without any more delay. A year has already been wasted by it futilely on petty politicking. The present PPP Govt. is alleged to be a failed government, because it has failed to tackle the multiple complex crises challenging the country currently. Crises are the true test of any good government. The present PPP Govt. of Pakistan is itself not yet stable, but it is commonly believed that it continues to confront and destabilize the Govt. of the Punjab, after knocking out that of AJK: Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is also aspiring to capture and dominate the Senate in the March, 2009 elections ___ instead of opting for the principled policy of National Integration through National Reconciliation. Pakistan should stand up firmly against Indian arm-twisting and blackmail. A massive diplomatic counter-offensive must be launched and sustained against the Bharati Hindutva aggressive designs. Pakistan should freeze its existing Cold War relations with India, till it returns to sanity and sobriety. This is no time for socio-culturally and ideologically subversive so-called ‘cultural diplomacy’. Escalation should be avoided ___ but without any servile appeasement or corrosive capitulation.

This is a factoral-pocess-product of National Integration and Social Cohesion. Beyond that, additionally, it is the responsibility of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, and their national and patriotic Advisors. Certainly not old wine in new bottles of the banal Busharraf vintage ___ who are fishing subversively in the present PPP troubled waters. The very best available persons for the purpose are Gen. (R) Mirza Aslam Beg, and Lt. Gen. (R) Hameed Gul (as NDS Advisors), especially in a Consensual National Government which is truly Pakistani: patriotic and nationalistic.

This still hangover, haunting Past-Continuous has done enough damage to the abiding National Interest and Perennial Islami Ideology. Now is the time for damage control and repair, crises management and conflict resolution, as well as problem prevention, preemption and solution. The present PPP Government is, allegedly, simply incapable of it, because of inbred and incorrigible incompetence. But if it were wise, it should realize that a Popular National Consensual Govt. can come to its rescue, for face-saving salvage, as well as the sustainable service of Pakistan and its poor people.

In the final analysis, it is the continuing Crisis of Leadership which has best Pakistan at present, as well. An Alternative Collective Leadership is needed urgently. And it is available plentifully. It needs to be integrated in a Consensual Collective National Govt. and Opposition. Pakistan should plan for its future, futuristically – indigenously, on the basis of the single strand agenda of Sovereign Strategic Self-Reliance, to serve its own perpetual Ideological and National Interest, in thought (policy), word (commitment) and deed (practice).

An increasing number of nonpartisan patriotic people of Pakistan are beginning to believe that the time has come for immediate regime-change, in order to save and serve Pakistan, sincerely. That means a Popular Consensual National Government for the next four years, to stabilize and strengthen Pakistan for the foreseeable future in peace, plenty and progress. The nation gave a nine-year long rope to Gen. ® Musharraf’s regime to hang itself by, ultimately. But at what colossal cost? It lost its soul to playing the Devil’s Disciple to Bush. If the Busharraf policies are to continue under the current ‘Dictatorial Democracy’, for the next four years, the national interest, cause and case would be compromised irretrievably. Generally, History is considered to be a natural and norman Continuum in the Past-Present-Future temporal sequence over space-place. But bloody revolutions are also a recurrent pattern, when continuities become impossible, and new trends emerge as discordant discontinuities. The safety valve escape route out of the emergent misery of the tragedy and trauma of impending Revolution, is Peaceful Moral-Spiritual-Secular Transformation. In both cases, the Past and Present have to be discarded deliberately: completely or selectively, depending on the objective conditions and current circumstances.

Regarding the “Bhutto Legacy”, the fact remains that neither the late BB: Benazir Bhutto Shaheed lived upto her father’s PPP Manifesto of Islamic Socialism, and slogan of “Roti, Kapra aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter), nor her Zardari beneficiary successors are living by her promises and pledges. Rhetoric and slongans don’t, and won’t, do. It is all the interplay of the key cash nexus and power politics. But the sympathy vote and sentimental slogans never last long. Already the PPP popularity is on the wane and verging towards the exit. Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s excuse, expressed in her two last books, (7) was that while her father lived in a bipolar world, she had to learn to exist in a unipolar one, requiring a radical change in policy and strategy. Likewise, the present times are changing so exponentially, that there is just no room for any kind of original or hybrid “Bhuttoization”: “As suggested earlier by me elsewhere, the emergent Paradigms are: (i)The 21st Century New Social Democracy for Western International Capitalism. (ii)The 21st Century New Democratic Socialism for Communism. (iii) The Perennial Islamic Peace Paradigm and Muhammadi Moral Model for the Muslim World.

The current challenging conditions and circumstances urge Pakistan and the rest of the Muslim World to ponder over these alternative Paradigms, soberly. As the US President Barack Hussain Obama said in his inaugural speech on Tuesday 20th January, 2009, the times have changed completely, and the world must learn to change with them.

The digressive, divergent difference is that while Past Change was manageably slow and progressive, Current Change is Exponential. Proactive, and anticipatory, willing and welcoming Adaptability is the creative key to cope with it competently. Let us hope and pray that President Barack Hussain Obama will opt to be a man of destined courage, to rally around him a global courageous collective leadership, in Peace and for permanent Peace and sovereign fraternal Freedom, all over the world, Filistince and Kushmir, as well.
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