Pakistan waits for its cigar-puffing Winston Churchill, who is nowhere to be seen among the current crop.
ABU DHABI: This is with reference to Ejaz Haider’s article of November 6 “Our non sequiturs”. I believe that Imran Khan represents Neville Chamberlain, the British Conservative politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the German-populated Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
History tells us that this was tantamount to negotiating with extremists and fanatics driven by their absolutist truths. Pakistan waits for its cigar-puffing Winston Churchill, who is nowhere to be seen among the current crop of opportunistic political charlatans.
Arif Qadri
Published in The Express Tribune, November 7th, 2013.
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