The first thing to do in Pakistan is to bring back the idea of a law and order situation and to enforce an environment of legal accountibility for everyone. The law has to be made supreme and in this sense, I have no hopes in that crossed-eyed idiot who is the chief justice of Pakistan. He is nothing but a lackey of the Sharif brothers. The law in Pakistan has been ripped into shreds due to personal, power based, self-interested exceptions to the extent that it only exists in theory and not in reality.
The first task of such a leader will be impose the rule of law and s/he must be willing to punish all those who disobey the law. No exceptions and to judge such a committment, we need a leader who would willing to hang is own mother and his own family in the public square if they broke the law. Such a leader needs to create a fear of the law that makes it unthinkable for the people to break it or even think about toying with it.
Is there a person like this in Pakistan?
Next step is to get rid of the parliament in Pakistan and the present bunch of expletive deleted morons, who claim to be politcans and who could not even masterbate if they were provided detailed instructions on how to do it. By getting rid of parliament, I do not mean the idea of a legislative assembly but the people in it. The French have a saying, which in English means “for the encouragement of others” and it would be good idea to hang some of these parasites and let their bodies hang and rot in the open so the people get the idea of what it means to disappoint the public trust.
Please observe, I call the Pakistani politicans, with rare exceptions, as parasites and not leeches, because even leeches have a purpose in life. What is the expletive deleted purpose of these expletive deleted morons?
Once a good portion of these parasites are hung and their corpses thrown to the pigs, lets get rid of the present toilet paper known as the constitution of Pakistan. In the new consititution, religion has to pared down to the bare minimum and it should be confined to a person’s own thought process and must be ruthlessly chased out of the public sphere. Just as the Nazis forced the Jews to wear a Yellow Star of David, those who wish to practice religion in Pakistan have to be identified and regulated till that point in time, when the population is mature enough to accept the seperation of state and religion.
Another thing, which a would be leader of Pakistan needs to do is have a bonfire of knowledge and burn all the books that preach about a mytical Pakistan. A new education criteria has to be created, implemented and taught that places an emphasis on the critical thinking skills intead of mere rote learning and this includes the Quran. A person memorizing the Quran is no different than a parrot, because the real question is whether memorization leads to understanding and in the case of religion, understanding is imperative towards questioning the basic fundlementals of religion and even offering critiques of the Prophet Muhummad.
Will the world end, if Muhummad’s life is put under a microscope warts and all? Such an education system, with the political power of a leader committed to change the very nature of a civic-political discourse in Pakistan, needs to demystify Muhummad’s status as a demi-god and make people realize that he was only a human being, with all the flaws and handicaps of a human being.
In Pakistan, unfortunately, Muhummad is revered as an idol and not seen as man. In Pakistan, you can joke and make fun of Allah, but not of Muhummad. Why? Pakistan, and the people who preach religion there, have created a narrative of idolatory around Muhummad and that is why, Pakistan is not a country created in the name of a religion as much as it has a religion created in the name of a country.
This is why I said that Pakistan does not require retired army generals to rule it and guide it to the nearest port of salvation, but a philosopher-king. We need a leader who combines an understanding of the all contradictions, which exist in our society and has a will to lead without compromising. Pakistan does not need a vision; vision is for utopians who are clueless as to what they want, because if the idea is to save Pakistan, then it must be done at the cost of overcoming all resistence.
Consider the situation as one based on the Code of Hammurabi govered by Draco. In such a case, democracy is disaster and we should admit to ourselves that though democracy might be the best of the worst alternatives, we are not mature enough to ply a democratic goverance because we as a society cannot develop a consensus.
In the rest of the world, the ideas of nationalism unites and in Pakistan, what values we hold as common divides us and in many aspects, the would be leader has to forge a sense of country first in Pakistan let alone rule it. Such a leader has to literally create the concept of a social justice that ensures equality of certain rights in the economic sense and such a leader must erdicate the scourage of feudalim and if the feudals resist, such a leader should not shy away from wiping out the feudal in a genocidial pogram, if that is what is required.
I say, let us bury the expletive deleted feudals in the expletive deleted land they love so much.
It would be a good idea, for such a leader, to start a tradition of public hangings after Friday prayers in all the towns and cities of Pakistan and to hang a dozen or so people each week; nothing motivates people more than to see someone dying kicking, dirtying themselves with their own excrement.
Now, let us turn to the military and let us have a would be leader of Pakistan purge it of all the minds, which exist in it and place it at a higher level than the importance of the state itself.
I must emphasis this point very clearly and forcefully. In order for Pakistan to have a functioning democracy and a representive government, with liberity and justice for its people, a would be leader of Pakistan would have to demolish all the intelligence services that exist within Pakistan.
The existence of an intelligence service, unless it is subservient to the law and is subordinate to the elected representatives and is held accountable by them, will always be a threat to the individual liberities of the people (in any country of the world).
The military in Pakistan has to made, by hook or crook, empathic to the understanding that it exists under the rubric of a state’s interests and it is not the job of the military to weave fantasies as to what are the interests of the state. The purpose of a soldier is to die for the country and it is the purpose of the leader to tell that solider how to die for his country and this needs to be made clear to the military mind in Pakistan.
Qualifications of a leader? The qualifications are not as important as the desire to institute a positive change in Pakistan and not to brook dissent to that change.
Edmund Burke once said a true leader is that person, who when he realizes that what the people want is wrong, acts in the best interests of the people by disobeying them and doing what he knows to be the best for them!
Pakistan must be allowed to be burned, to the third degree, with the fires of its self-created intolerances and it must be allowed to sink, deeper, into the hopelessness of a rule of jungle and life must be allowed to become so uncertain that the average mind of a Pakistani understands what it means to live in a lawless society and why laws are need and more crucially, why laws must be respected and this repect must be for man made law and not God’s laws, which will only create, and do create, exceptions to the rule of law and actually undermine it.
Religion must be allowed to kill in Pakistan until that point in time, when the people themselves understand that religion is a man made doctrine for propagating an intolerant brand of moral terroism and they are so fed up with religion and its hypocrisy, that they themselves seek to distence themselves from its rituals and commandments and intentions.
A would be leader must be willing to watch the death of Pakistan, in its present form, and must be willing to re-create a new reality by the force of sheer ruthlessness and will power.
I only see a stubborn refusal to compromise with the conventional wisdom and a desire to take Pakistan by the horns and make it yield to progress and change as a solution, because at the present state of affairs, the idea of a national consensus is a wet dream in Pakistan, because our present leadership has the minds of a spoiled child and is selfish to the core.
The reason corruption is such a death knell for Pakistan is not because of corruption itself, but because it is a selfish corruption that exists in Pakistan, and which traces its roots to the sustainment of a life style that cannot be afforded through legal and normal means. The idea of corruption and its impetus in Pakistan comes from living a life style beyond a person’s means and to bridge the gap, between the costs of that life style and to pay for it, corruption is the mode of expediency meet the needs of that life style, because we all have expectations to live beyond our means.
Corruption in Pakistan will only end when Pakistanis are made to live within their financial limits. Period.
All of the problems in Pakistan, from A to Z, can be solved, but the question still waits for an answer if there is a will to solve them?
Therefore, I favor a philopher-king, who understands the problems of Pakistan, understands the vunerabilities of the people of Pakistan and their intellectual insecurities and knows the solution and is not afraid to impose a reign of tryanny and is not unafriad of being hated and disliked.
The problem with military rulers is that they always wish to be liked and wish to have popular legitimacy and it is this Achilles’ Heel of their own flawed perceptions, which gives them their destined tragic character flaws assuring their eventual failures. Same thing with the civilian politicans; they too have a sense of a personal narcissistic streak and for its sake, will not make difficult choices.
No; what Pakistan needs is a person, as a leader, capable of unimaginable will power and the first test of this will power has to be such a leader’s personal rejection of everything which Pakistan presently stands for, because it is wrong and then, the capacity to change it regardless of the sacrifice needed.
Pakistan needs a philosopher-king, who understand the irony of doing evil in the name of good; who understands that in order to create, you must destroy.
I am being pragmatic and if I had wished to be idealistic, I would have continued to harp about Jinnah and trying to force the future existence of my country according to the expectations of a dead man.
Is there a person in Pakistan, who can reject the role of Islam in Pakistani politics and also reject the memory of Jinnah and has the will to move forward, for the sake of Pakistan, without the need to justify the future of Pakistan on the basis of Islam and Jinnah?
The first task of such a leader will be impose the rule of law and s/he must be willing to punish all those who disobey the law. No exceptions and to judge such a committment, we need a leader who would willing to hang is own mother and his own family in the public square if they broke the law. Such a leader needs to create a fear of the law that makes it unthinkable for the people to break it or even think about toying with it.
Is there a person like this in Pakistan?
Next step is to get rid of the parliament in Pakistan and the present bunch of expletive deleted morons, who claim to be politcans and who could not even masterbate if they were provided detailed instructions on how to do it. By getting rid of parliament, I do not mean the idea of a legislative assembly but the people in it. The French have a saying, which in English means “for the encouragement of others” and it would be good idea to hang some of these parasites and let their bodies hang and rot in the open so the people get the idea of what it means to disappoint the public trust.
Please observe, I call the Pakistani politicans, with rare exceptions, as parasites and not leeches, because even leeches have a purpose in life. What is the expletive deleted purpose of these expletive deleted morons?
Once a good portion of these parasites are hung and their corpses thrown to the pigs, lets get rid of the present toilet paper known as the constitution of Pakistan. In the new consititution, religion has to pared down to the bare minimum and it should be confined to a person’s own thought process and must be ruthlessly chased out of the public sphere. Just as the Nazis forced the Jews to wear a Yellow Star of David, those who wish to practice religion in Pakistan have to be identified and regulated till that point in time, when the population is mature enough to accept the seperation of state and religion.
Another thing, which a would be leader of Pakistan needs to do is have a bonfire of knowledge and burn all the books that preach about a mytical Pakistan. A new education criteria has to be created, implemented and taught that places an emphasis on the critical thinking skills intead of mere rote learning and this includes the Quran. A person memorizing the Quran is no different than a parrot, because the real question is whether memorization leads to understanding and in the case of religion, understanding is imperative towards questioning the basic fundlementals of religion and even offering critiques of the Prophet Muhummad.
Will the world end, if Muhummad’s life is put under a microscope warts and all? Such an education system, with the political power of a leader committed to change the very nature of a civic-political discourse in Pakistan, needs to demystify Muhummad’s status as a demi-god and make people realize that he was only a human being, with all the flaws and handicaps of a human being.
In Pakistan, unfortunately, Muhummad is revered as an idol and not seen as man. In Pakistan, you can joke and make fun of Allah, but not of Muhummad. Why? Pakistan, and the people who preach religion there, have created a narrative of idolatory around Muhummad and that is why, Pakistan is not a country created in the name of a religion as much as it has a religion created in the name of a country.
This is why I said that Pakistan does not require retired army generals to rule it and guide it to the nearest port of salvation, but a philosopher-king. We need a leader who combines an understanding of the all contradictions, which exist in our society and has a will to lead without compromising. Pakistan does not need a vision; vision is for utopians who are clueless as to what they want, because if the idea is to save Pakistan, then it must be done at the cost of overcoming all resistence.
Consider the situation as one based on the Code of Hammurabi govered by Draco. In such a case, democracy is disaster and we should admit to ourselves that though democracy might be the best of the worst alternatives, we are not mature enough to ply a democratic goverance because we as a society cannot develop a consensus.
In the rest of the world, the ideas of nationalism unites and in Pakistan, what values we hold as common divides us and in many aspects, the would be leader has to forge a sense of country first in Pakistan let alone rule it. Such a leader has to literally create the concept of a social justice that ensures equality of certain rights in the economic sense and such a leader must erdicate the scourage of feudalim and if the feudals resist, such a leader should not shy away from wiping out the feudal in a genocidial pogram, if that is what is required.
I say, let us bury the expletive deleted feudals in the expletive deleted land they love so much.
It would be a good idea, for such a leader, to start a tradition of public hangings after Friday prayers in all the towns and cities of Pakistan and to hang a dozen or so people each week; nothing motivates people more than to see someone dying kicking, dirtying themselves with their own excrement.
Now, let us turn to the military and let us have a would be leader of Pakistan purge it of all the minds, which exist in it and place it at a higher level than the importance of the state itself.
I must emphasis this point very clearly and forcefully. In order for Pakistan to have a functioning democracy and a representive government, with liberity and justice for its people, a would be leader of Pakistan would have to demolish all the intelligence services that exist within Pakistan.
The existence of an intelligence service, unless it is subservient to the law and is subordinate to the elected representatives and is held accountable by them, will always be a threat to the individual liberities of the people (in any country of the world).
The military in Pakistan has to made, by hook or crook, empathic to the understanding that it exists under the rubric of a state’s interests and it is not the job of the military to weave fantasies as to what are the interests of the state. The purpose of a soldier is to die for the country and it is the purpose of the leader to tell that solider how to die for his country and this needs to be made clear to the military mind in Pakistan.
Qualifications of a leader? The qualifications are not as important as the desire to institute a positive change in Pakistan and not to brook dissent to that change.
Edmund Burke once said a true leader is that person, who when he realizes that what the people want is wrong, acts in the best interests of the people by disobeying them and doing what he knows to be the best for them!
Pakistan must be allowed to be burned, to the third degree, with the fires of its self-created intolerances and it must be allowed to sink, deeper, into the hopelessness of a rule of jungle and life must be allowed to become so uncertain that the average mind of a Pakistani understands what it means to live in a lawless society and why laws are need and more crucially, why laws must be respected and this repect must be for man made law and not God’s laws, which will only create, and do create, exceptions to the rule of law and actually undermine it.
Religion must be allowed to kill in Pakistan until that point in time, when the people themselves understand that religion is a man made doctrine for propagating an intolerant brand of moral terroism and they are so fed up with religion and its hypocrisy, that they themselves seek to distence themselves from its rituals and commandments and intentions.
A would be leader must be willing to watch the death of Pakistan, in its present form, and must be willing to re-create a new reality by the force of sheer ruthlessness and will power.
I only see a stubborn refusal to compromise with the conventional wisdom and a desire to take Pakistan by the horns and make it yield to progress and change as a solution, because at the present state of affairs, the idea of a national consensus is a wet dream in Pakistan, because our present leadership has the minds of a spoiled child and is selfish to the core.
The reason corruption is such a death knell for Pakistan is not because of corruption itself, but because it is a selfish corruption that exists in Pakistan, and which traces its roots to the sustainment of a life style that cannot be afforded through legal and normal means. The idea of corruption and its impetus in Pakistan comes from living a life style beyond a person’s means and to bridge the gap, between the costs of that life style and to pay for it, corruption is the mode of expediency meet the needs of that life style, because we all have expectations to live beyond our means.
Corruption in Pakistan will only end when Pakistanis are made to live within their financial limits. Period.
All of the problems in Pakistan, from A to Z, can be solved, but the question still waits for an answer if there is a will to solve them?
Therefore, I favor a philopher-king, who understands the problems of Pakistan, understands the vunerabilities of the people of Pakistan and their intellectual insecurities and knows the solution and is not afraid to impose a reign of tryanny and is not unafriad of being hated and disliked.
The problem with military rulers is that they always wish to be liked and wish to have popular legitimacy and it is this Achilles’ Heel of their own flawed perceptions, which gives them their destined tragic character flaws assuring their eventual failures. Same thing with the civilian politicans; they too have a sense of a personal narcissistic streak and for its sake, will not make difficult choices.
No; what Pakistan needs is a person, as a leader, capable of unimaginable will power and the first test of this will power has to be such a leader’s personal rejection of everything which Pakistan presently stands for, because it is wrong and then, the capacity to change it regardless of the sacrifice needed.
Pakistan needs a philosopher-king, who understand the irony of doing evil in the name of good; who understands that in order to create, you must destroy.
I am being pragmatic and if I had wished to be idealistic, I would have continued to harp about Jinnah and trying to force the future existence of my country according to the expectations of a dead man.
Is there a person in Pakistan, who can reject the role of Islam in Pakistani politics and also reject the memory of Jinnah and has the will to move forward, for the sake of Pakistan, without the need to justify the future of Pakistan on the basis of Islam and Jinnah?
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