Those who mauled the constitution
RALEIGH:
This is with reference to Syed Masudul Hassan’s “Those who mauled the constitution” (July 6). Reading the first few paragraphs of this piece one might be forgiven for thinking – here is a military man who accepts the institutional responsibility of the military for destroying Pakistan’s political system. But after a few paragraphs, one realises that this is simply another attempt to cleanse the image of the military by dissociating it from the “unconstitutional acts of a few generals” who “never represented the views of the rank and file of the armed forces.”
So, just because Musharraf was unpopular because of his pro-west policies and backchannel talks on Kashmir, we are now supposed to start respecting the supporters of the counter-coup against him (including luminaries like Hamid Gul and Aslam Beg) as true democrats?
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2010.
This is with reference to Syed Masudul Hassan’s “Those who mauled the constitution” (July 6). Reading the first few paragraphs of this piece one might be forgiven for thinking – here is a military man who accepts the institutional responsibility of the military for destroying Pakistan’s political system. But after a few paragraphs, one realises that this is simply another attempt to cleanse the image of the military by dissociating it from the “unconstitutional acts of a few generals” who “never represented the views of the rank and file of the armed forces.”
So, just because Musharraf was unpopular because of his pro-west policies and backchannel talks on Kashmir, we are now supposed to start respecting the supporters of the counter-coup against him (including luminaries like Hamid Gul and Aslam Beg) as true democrats?
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2010.