Musharraf and the taste of lies

Former President Musharraf certainly reflects what Natali Imbriglia says, ‘I’m such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.’ Recently, in an interview, he carefully detailed what he has called remarkable achievements of his regime, especially focusing on the developmental mega projects in Balochistan.

One wonders in surprise at what features prominently in his definition of development. Military bases, ordering abductions and extra-judicial killings and hitting people or anything else. “He says, emphasizing the ‘I’ factor, before him no one paid due attention to Balochistan, due to this, there existed a grave sense of deprivation which he curtailed through his honest moves which proved to be magnificently beneficial.  

Then he turns towards those whom he and his like-minded colleagues are always found to be bad mouthing; probably being jealous of the enormously unconscious respect they get in the Baloch society: the Sardars. Substantiating untruthfully his false claims, he put blame on them for being impediments in the way of the construction of schools, colleges, hospitals, and universities.

Now it is high time for one to stop his/her head circling around how one could have stopped him from building colleges and schools; being unable to stop him from constructing military cantonments they fiercely opposed. At least, for a wise mind, everything is sufficiently evident.

Time has and will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies. I won’t try to. Break a leg Mr. Musharraf! What I discuss is to simply differentiate between your big claims and the place where I belong to, namely Awaran (notified as a separate district on 11^th November, 1992 before it was a subdivision of Khuzdar district. Interestingly, Mir Majeed Bizenjo, who repeatedly represented the district for several terms, was in his created party PML-Q and his son, Mir Qadoos Bizenjo, remained in provincial government during his whole regime. He enjoyed a huge support from both of them.

Furthermore, the district Nazim, Khair Jan Baloch, was literally a big fan of Musharraf, who actively participated in his meetings whenever he was given a possible chance to admire his hero.  Comparatively, Awaran has the lowest educational ratio in the province, “having one enter college at the district headquarter(s) without facilitations [?] and hospitals suffer the same fate” are enough to prove his whole regime was not little rewarding. Consequently, Awaran remains the most underdeveloped district of Balochistan.

Instead, he constructed several military bases; one can notice them easily en route from the area at a few miles distance from both sides of the district head quarter respectively, where he could build schools, colleges and hospitals to advance education, health and other modern facilities.  It definitely exposes that these were not considered necessary during the plan making hours or neglected them as futile subjects deliberately.

For pyromaniac Musharraf, a lie might be of a great taste hence he is incredibly engrossed in telling crystal clear and unproductive lies being flagrantly dishonest. If he could have the power to reflectively comprehend for a moment while recalling his most tyrannical regime of the decade consciously and its long term effects, he would have never issued such flabby and rambling statements and written, a single irrational word to defend his brazenly stubborn behavior.  But, unfortunately, he and other peculiar Pakistani leaders have no courage to face the music.

Now it is clearly obvious that constantly coming up with quixotic and hawkish schemes, Musharraf was not interested in advancement and betterment of the Baloch people but was keenly eager with a pusillanimous purport to quash those who were demanding their universally and constitutionally accepted rights.

Is Imran Khan a good leader?

A good leader possesses some distinctive qualities like, charisma, intellectuality, writing, humour and wit, idealism, resourcefulness, honesty and integrity, being inspirational and motivational fascinatingly. Astonishingly, Imran khan, clearly lacks the first and last two qualities.

“To wish is passive; to will is active,” wrote Nixon, “Followers wish. Leaders will.”

He aspires to alter Pakistan but he lacks a brutal will power and intellectual decision making; he is building a wall like Khrushchev but to keep his own people out.  He lacks the power of organizing, managing and uniting people towards him attractively while failed to satisfy the basic psychological needs of his followers being ineffective and less-attentive.

What little political recognition he earned is not because of his leadership power but because of the prevalent despair and distrust that forced people to unconsciously choose him reluctantly.

Another quality totally missing in Imran Khan is that good leaders, through their exemplary behaviour, set an example for others and educate their followers morally and politically. His followers are harshly rude and use extremely abusive language against respected leaders and journalists.  He lacks a practically strong vision to reach his goal, and seems to be failing to stand forthrightly on his previously expressed stance while losing his originality and spontaneity: only dreams can’t change things.  He lacks the power to view a situation as a whole and break it down into sub parts for an analytically closer inspection.

A good leader assiduously activate the habit of playing down ‘I’ and playing up the ‘you’ but he is engrossed in putting a great stress mark on ‘I’ whether talking about his cricket world cup win or politics. He never talks about others and especially good points but constantly busy in bringing forth the ill-points like all other conservative leaders of Pakistan do.

Recently he boasted that he eliminates corruption in 90 days lacking three main traits a leader should definitely possess: a well-defined objective; the quality to define that objective to ones followers so that they comprehend and commit themselves to the same and thirdly, the method to obtain that target.

Frankly speaking, he has to reconsider whatever his political philosophy is; because he failed manifestly so far to put his desires and actions properly in the same direction.