Asma Jahagir said recently, generals should leave the country alone and just do what they are supposed and paid to do.
LAHORE: This is with reference to Raza Rumi’s article of September 20 titled “When are we going to open our eyes?”
The narrative given to the public by the military elite is that what the latter decides and says is always right. This narrative has many faces and names such as basic democracy, party-less elections, strategic depth and proxy fighters, to name but a few. While they themselves live a life of discipline, relative comfort and financial security their mostly illiterate countrymen do all the dirty work that needs to be done.
Like Asma Jahagir said recently, these generals should leave the country alone and just do what they are supposed and paid to do: defend the country and obey civil authority under all circumstances. We have to open our eyes now or it will be too late.
Tariq Bashir
Published in The Express Tribune, September 22nd, 2011.
