Some Bitter Facts

Since, Pakistan got rid of dictators like Ayub khan, Zia ul haq and Musharraf our democratic governments have a lot of problems to face. We can’t even count these problems. We always used to cry for the end of anxious and epoch period of Musharraf because that was the worst period in which as a nation we lost our respect honor and dignity in the world.

All the countries in the entire world marked us a terrorist country. We were considered the most immoral, un civilized and vulgar nation of the world. We had grievances from that dictatorship and their awful, wrong and frustrated policies but fortunately, we got redeem of that frustrated era.

When we passed through elections in 2008, the whole nation was in a hope of gaining back our honor dignity and respect in the front of the world but unfortunately, we failed once again.

There are some minor developments but the comparison of successes and failures makes the success ignorable. For example, first serious issue was loss of ties between military and civilian leadership on Kerry Lugar Bill, which military believed would affect, National security and the other serious issue was about Swat operation in 2009, which led to many collateral damages and many naïve civilians were killed and internally displaced, all these are considered as the failure of policies because by the name of National interest many innocents were killed.

Now, at the end of Pakistan People Party (PPP) tenure, people of Pakistan were feed up of PPP because of their wrong policies, there was no national interest in their policies what going on were only for self interest in 2013 general elections, people of Pakistan rejected PPP and gave a chance to PMLN, nation had a lot of hope in their eyes but when PMLN won elections it turned a nightmare for the country because we got isolated in the world in PMLN era, we lost SAARC because of failure of good and effective diplomacy other than SAARC we lost the back up of our good and long lasted friend China in Bricks conference we lost ties with our brother Afghanistan due to our failure of good and valuable diplomacy there are many other examples which will show us the empty space in our diplomacy which need to be filled immediately.

Many political figures called China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a result of good policy of existing civilian government but, as far as I  consider there are many serious concerns of military leadership with civilian leadership over CPEC which have led our country to instability and this is also a big failure of democratic government other than this, two weeks ago at FATF in Paris, Indian and Americans were trying to keep Pakistan on back foot by running a diplomacy to put Pakistan in Black list countries putting Pakistan on black list means affecting the economy and foreign aid funds of Pakistan but luckily Pakistan survived it and protected itself from Black list at the first meeting. China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia were backing Pakistan but after three days at second meeting these countries quitted their stance and demanded Pakistan to act against UNO designated “Jamat ud dawah” and “Jaish” all these are serious concerns for our governments to be focused because this can make the situations more horrible and this will pave the way to our global loneness.

We still have time to repair our frosty ties with our neighbor countries because it will bring peace to our region and will pave the way for good diplomatic relations.

Last week, Iran’s FM invited us to take part in Chabahar port which is a good and positive response for good relations with Iran and this can end dispute amongst Iran and Pakistan over many issues. last night, president of Afghanistan invited Pakistan’s PM Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi to have a table meeting to end rivalry and repair the ties, as far as my opinion is concerned, Pakistan should accept all these invitations because it can end our economic and diplomatic crisis with our neighbor countries.

Written by:

Mansoor Ali