Published in English Daily, Pakistan Today.
The prevailing political turmoil has polarized and
divided the already fragmented nation to an unprecedented extent, witnessed
ever.
Most, if not all, appear to have taken a clear side.
Either they are supporting a particular party or they have grudges against a
specific person. Every second person is looking at the other with the
spectacles of suspicion and is skeptic about his patriotism, sincerity and even
mental stability. The belief in the system is fast waning and the mistrust on
the institutions is on a constant rise. And worst of all, media is fueling this fire of frenzy. The sanity seems having departed completely.
Sad enough, the saner voices which already are in
scarce number and which in such chaotic circumstances are ardently vying for
the safeguard and stability of the system are oft being labeled as neo-traitors
having sold their minds to one stake holder or the other. What we fail to
understand is that being not a party to this ‘Inqilab’ does not demonstrate that one is with present regime nor
by abhorring this madness devoid of any iota of method means that one is
preserving the status Quo. It is earnestly needed that an early and largely
accepted political solution of this political crisis is evolved expeditiously
before it gets too late. Rest assured when boots march forward, the nations
step backward.
TASSAWUR BOSAL
Mandi Bahauddin
Daily Pakistan Today
September 03, 2014.
