Since when are we championing individuals using state resources as they please?
CRAWLEY, UK: This is with reference to Zarrar Khuhro’s article of September 22 titled “Power not principle”. Rather than pointing to foreign hypocrisy, the more pertinent question is that under whose sanction was the former ISI chief acting. Was he doing this on his own, was this official Pakistani state policy or another example of the military high command issuing an order without informing their constitutional masters. Whose money was used to do all this? Did Pakistani taxpayers pay for this while many millions struggle in poverty? What was the motivation? Was it because Pakistan’s security interests were threatened? Or was this another overzealous general who was abusing his position of authority to do what he thought was the right thing to do?
Painting the general as some underdog who took on the powerful is all well and good, but since when are we championing individuals to use state resources to do as they please? Is this not bad governance? Misuse of official privilege? Or are such staple phrases only reserved for politicians?
Nadir El-Edroos
Published in The Express Tribune, September 25th, 2011.
