The Pakistani Spectator

We the people of this country are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion, acceptance and appreciation to despotism and tyranny, and its manufacturers and harbingers. We tend to take every new round of dictatorship with gusto and consider it as our ultimate salvation. We consider the short intervals of democracy as respite from the true and normal rules.

Isn’t it natural for us that we should not instead be placing as much emphasis and dedication to the men on the back of horses, of the despotic regimes as we do to the democratic leaders and our own elected members?

We, like lambs, accept any imported Prime Minister from the far off lands, and we dont even puke when these imported items go back to their far away lands after screwing us to their satisfaction. This apathetic approach of us cost us half of the country in 1971, and this same approach has jeopardized our society, which is now in the grip of every kind of crisis, and now the world is telling us how to govern and how to live.

We need to learn to treasure, cherish, relish and defend our democracy.