All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
Is that true? Might be but not in the case of Pakistan. After half a century of toxic experiments, Pakistan hasn’t realized that dictatorship breeds only sycophants and spineless stooges, not leaders. Men of dignity, character, moral conviction and political sagacity cannot appear out of political vacuum in Pakistan.
Clearing the air after weeks of speculation, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have said that no political deal was in the offing between them.
The situation remains fluid
It’s been five years since Musharraf in one of his interview with ‘The Christian Science Monitor‘ said -
All that we are trying to achieve through these elections is to introduce sustainable democracy in Pakistan, ensuring that the democratic process is not overturned, bringing checks and balances on all power brokers within Pakistan, and also ensuring that the reforms and the restructuring - the process that we’ve initiated - is sustained and it is not reversed. This is what we’re doing on the political side.
On the political side, Musharraf ended the days of rumor mongering that hinted at his wanting to dump Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz as part of the deal, blaming him, among other things, for allegedly mismanaging the crisis over suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry.
The dictatorship has never allowed and will never allow the men of principles to take root. The shameful bunch of so-called political leaders is just blowing their own horn in a routine without any breathing space for the democracy.
