Government is made up of compromises and ‘deals’ where one scratches the back of the other to maintain the status quo.
MCLEAN, VA, US: No one can dispute the recommendations made by Dr Akmal Ahmed in his article (October 17). Look at it this way, if the government did what the writer says it should do — and I agree with the writer wholeheartedly — it would fall in a week. This is because the government is made up of compromises and ‘deals’ where one scratches the back of the other so as to maintain the status quo. That has always been the case — military governments or so-called democratic ones.
There are good, intellectually-sound people still present in Pakistan. We don’t have to ‘import’ them and think that these ‘imports’ can solve our problems. We know the problems. They are glaringly obvious. We know the solutions as well. Therefore, we don’t need a catalogue of what needs to be done but rather one which tells us why we cannot or are not inclined to do anything to change the situation. I hope the writer will turn his discourse to that issue in subsequent write-ups.
Meekal Ahmed
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2010.
