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OCT 18: The Day of National Awakening!
Terrorism is big threat to peace in the world. Terrorism breeds when extremism gets sponsorship. A similar kind of situation prevails in Pakistan. Ruling establishment, which nurtured extremists to keep popular democratic forces at bay and creating artificial threats for modern world, perhaps turned its back to them unwillingly. Nation was informed of the fight against terrorism.
The fight against extremism in Pakistan cannot be fought without national reconciliation and involvement of the masses. Pakistan is awakened now that such crucial internal fights, sponsored by outsiders, cannot be won through a few institutions alone. Masses can alone make such Hercules national task a success. Our master brains, who saw strategic depth in Afghanistan for Pakistan have finally ended up the country in a quagmire self-made. It seems that minds, which are selected and trained with geographic defence education have admitted now that only a popular leadership has the capacity to protect the ideology of Pakistan and its national interests.
It is appreciatable that such an awakening seems visible especially at a point of time in history where Pakistan stands at a crossroad today. There is choice available now for Pakistan, whether it wants to be another Afghanistan or goes back to the founding ideology of Pakistan.
Washington-based anti-terrorism group ‘Terror Free Tomorrow’ said Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson and former Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is the popular hope for majority of Pakistanis. She enjoys the support of 53 leaving behind another two-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The ruling clique may even loose in homes if their family members are given real freedom of choice. Thus it is out of the survey ambit. In 2002 general elections, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was restricted from contesting the general elections, but the chief of a banned extremist organization Maulana Azam Tariq was allowed to contest and become an MNA to be able to cast his decisive vote to form the government of covert extremists. The Pakistan Peoples Party bagged the largest number of votes was pushed to the third position in Parliament representation. . Covert extremists were given task to root out overt extremism and terrorism. Instead, they squeezed the space for civil society and its liberal forces. The overt extremists were moved in to fill the space. Country’s largest civil society political force Pakistan Peoples Party appeared the real target of this regime. PPP remained the most victimized political party in Pakistan during the last eight years also. Its leaders were targeted and killed including MP Abdullah Murad and the Chairperson’s close confidante Munawar Suharwardy. Media trial and character assassination of its leadership was carried out by the regime spending millions of dollars. Agencies made defections among the party legislators through carrot and stick policy. Party Chairperson’s spouse Asif Ali Zardari was held in jail for eight and a half years. All the worst victimization was carried out against it because the PPP is always the symbol for democracy and civilian rule.
Time is running out for the covert extremists, who ruled Pakistan under the shadow of uniform since 2002. The establishment must have learnt now that the nation cannot get rid of extremism and its bye-product of terrorism without popular support of the masses. PPP’s goal from the outset was to set the course for to a successful transition to a democracy and a political marginalization of the anti-people and extremist forces. The party wants to rekindle the dream of Quaid-e-Azam and Quaid-e-Azam for Pakistan and its people.
Rekindling the dream of Quaid-e-Azam for the people of Pakistan is the real hope and this HOPE returns to Pakistan on October 18. And hope for tomorrow lands back in the country after 3565 days in exile. Pakistan braces to welcome its hope. “I am coming back to Pakistan regardless as to what happens to me because the country is facing the threat of disintegration, the regime has lost control over tribal areas, there is insurgency in Baluchistan, rule of law has collapsed in Karachi and Punjab is facing sectarian and religious violence eating the very roots of the federation,” Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto said last month when her return to home was announced in eight different places in Pakistan. “My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy,” said Mohtarma. “Extremism looms as a threat, but it will be contained as it has been in the past if the moderate middle can be mobilized to stand up to fanaticism. I return to lead that battle.”
It is clear now forces that considered “War on Terror” as a lucrative project and condensed it to limited ruling groups have finally awakened, Pakistan seems to have finally awakened. Why the masses were kept aloof from participation in nation’s fight against extremism and terrorism? This questions whispers in every ear that cares for future of world peace and progress and prosperity of Pakistan. October 18 is going to be the Day of National Awakening when Pakistanis will rekindle their dream of a liberal, democratic, peaceful, vibrant Pakistan with justice, fair play, equality, human rights, freedom, progress and prosperity as the most recognized and followed rules of the society.
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