Crocodile tears and a lot of rubbish by Musharraf

By: Bushra Gohar

These days’ people living in NWFP are being prepared for the stoneage as has been promised on several occasions by the powers that be. Electricity and gas remains suspended for hours on end, daily food items are way too expensive for the common man, unemployment figures are high, there is a total breakdown of law and order and the state has ceased to exist to ensure our constitutional rights but shows its ugly head only to pound us with indiscriminate bombings through illegal and in human operations justified in the name of war on terror... things are worse in the areas where these operations are directly taking place targeting and terrorizing mainly the innocent civilians...this after the much touted Musharraf's dream team's 8 years of peace, prosperity and progress in the country. The UN report issued on one of the private channels says that more than 400 families have moved to the neigbouring to take refuge, as the government has made no effort to provide food, shelter and medical assistance to the civilian population living in the line of fire...

Thus on a freezing cold winter evening last night, without gas and electricity, the masses were given a rare break for an hour to listen to their unconstitutional and self imposed president shed crocodile tears over the loss of BB and further the blame game...as expected the speech was nothing but hollow words insensitive to the sentiments of the people...it was that of a conspirator of a heinous crime...one was hoping that he would for once do the honourable thing and accept responsibility for taking the country to the verge of disintegration and civil war and announce his resignation and offer unconditional accountability, opening the way for a National consensus government and an independent election commission, restoration of judiciary and lifting of the gag on the media...but that was a bit too much to expect from a power hungry thug and his gang of criminals who know that their only survival is in keeping the nation in a perpetual chaotic state....instead, he passed on the buck to the state sponsored, trained and sustained Baitullah Mehsud and Fazlullah for the targeted cold blooded killing in an attempt to incite Pukhtun Sindhi tensions in the country...his government has gone overboard over the years to declare the Pukhtuns extremists and terrorists of the worst order...justifying the continued illegal operations against the Pukhtuns. The conversation in Pushtu between Baitullah Mehsud and another person congratulating each other for a mission well accomplished after BB's cold blooded murder, was immediately released to all networks to divert the public’s attention to the "trigger happy and barbaric" Pukhtuns in a clear attempt to provoke ethnic riots...In the tapes Baitullah Mehsud gives out his whereabouts and yet our efficient agencies were not able to catch him...instead the establishment got busy in covering the facts and issued ridiculous and callous statements about the tragic incident…one thing is for sure the people in the province can no longer tolerate or believe a word of what Musharraf says not even if it means a break from the long power outages…

The idealist in me still hopes that the people will call his bluff by voting out his goons in the Q league in the upcoming polls and giving a decisive 'No' to Musharraf...but the question is will the elections take place as scheduled..I suspect more riots and chaos will be orchestrated during Moharram to defer the elections indefinitely and the nation will be condemned to another 5 years of Musharaf's dictatorship...we must all join hands to strengthen the 'Quit Musharraf Movement' by a group of Human Rights activists or prepare for the dark times yet to come stripped of our basic rights and services...lets not tolerate this oppression any further...BG

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More need to Resist and Protest against the newly imposed Martial Law, than ever

It was the blackest day of Pakistan's history, the act of imposing Martial Law (i would say it Martial Law rather emergency because it is imposed by the Chief of Army Staff not even by the President, if it were the emergency then it would had been imposed by the Prime Minister) is a ridiculous act of its kind. Because in the past all such kind of actions were taken against the 'civil governments' whereas in this setup, the Army Chief was also the President (since 8 years not from a short period of time), the Prime Minister was undoubtedly a puppet and he himself was the one and only Ruler. The text of Declaration of Emergency Rule which ends by saying that "the constitution is in 'abeyance' - which, in effect means that martial law has been imposed, although there is not a heavy security presence on the streets."

All those reasons that he spoke about, in his "Mere Aziz Hum-Watno", were in fact the points of charge-sheet of his failures during his Dictatorship since 8 years and mainly after becoming the "Front Line State" in the so called "War on Terror" after Nine Eleven. In short, the whole speech was nothing except "I", "Me" and "Myself". For Example
I thought blah blah blah
I decided blah blah blah
I want blah blah blah
I wont allow blah blah blah
I did blah blah blah
I will do blah blah blah
My Rule, My Command, My Authority blah blah blah
Still he insists that it was a Democratic Government ? I ask where was the "Government" ? It had been a one man show since the 12 October 1999. This blatant attack on civil right was part of the statement that "I will remain". In his address he said "Inaction at this moment is suicide for Pakistan and I cannot allow this country to commit suicide." Who the hell are you ? You don't have the legitimacy to allow or disallow anything, no one elected you to do that. Especially when you plan to cease the basic civil rights, suspend the constitution and arrest the judiciary by deciding on your own (or by just consulting the "chorr" commanders).

Humorously he thinks that he is part of the solution, infact he is part of the problem. "I suspect that Pakistan's sovereignty is in danger unless timely action is taken," he said (in his address). Thats exactly what we believe (not only suspect) that Pakistan's sovereignty is in danger if Military remained in rule and Mush didn't stepped out. BBC quoted "He insisted his decisions were made for the benefit of Pakistan".

The main target is the judiciary which is accused of interfering in government policy and weakening the struggle against terrorism, what a pathetic joke is this. He wants to install puppets in judiciary, also. Thats why he dismissed Chief Justice. More than 15 Judges from Supreme court and more than 60 Judges from all the four High courts refused to take oath under PCO. In Sindh, almost all the members of that bench which was hearing the 12 May Case and also the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, were not even invited to take oath !!!

So please please stand up to resist and protest against this shameful act of a self centered man. The future of our generations is at stake. Don't think that its only the job of political parties or the legal community, we are also part of it. Enough is enough, we had been silent since long and gave Mush a reason to say that the silent majority support his policies and decisions. So please don't become part of his crimes anymore. Do what ever you can to remove this system which has been embarrassing us all the time.

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