Chowrangi

I feel sorry for the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who doesn’t know what to do exactly. He wants to be the Prime Minister with all the fanfare in the world, and he wants to really enjoy the throne at full throttle with full hubbub.

But when the poor premier meets Pervez Musharraf, his allied party PML-N starts oozing fire, and when he tries to give statements in the favor of the judiciary, his own party and the masters in America start fuming. There are very few options for the new PM.

Ok, now you may add two more days to the 12th May deadline for the reinstatement of the unfortunate judges. These judges must be thinking wonderously as what the hell is going on, and was there any purpose or meaning behind their ‘No’ in front of the army chief?

As the thirty days deadline expired due to the delaying tactics of Pakistan People’s Party on the cue from the President Pervez Musharraf, and a new deadline was given along with the formation of a legal committee in the clownish leadership of law minister Farooq H. Naek who idiotically start smiling in front of cameras telling everyone about a “Khush khubri”.

The truth is that a thief remains a thief. Sadly enough, but the true fact is that this country has been compromised earlier, and it is being compromised once again. Every civilian and tyrant ruler exploited this country for it’s evil interests, and this new Zardari “tola” is not any different.

The reason why Zardari doesnt want to reinstate the judges and especially the chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary is that he wants to save his billions of looted money and various assets scattered throughout the world.

Pakistani Politics is littered with the paradoxes or shall we call them inherent hypocrisy. The seismic shifts of our politicians are often underreported by the media, and the nation has been made-belief by the media that it’s all part of the politics and anything could happen at anytime in the politics.

These shifts often set the tone of our politics and set the national agenda. These shifts and shape-ups not only modify the dynamics of the politics, but also divert the attention of bewildered nation from one bombardment of crisis to another.

With Rehman Malik showing stubbornness, and the cadres of Pakistan People’s Party seem to be fed up with the mantra of judges restoration, the coalition of Pakistan Democratic Alliance seems to be at its last breaths so early in the days after the screwed-up change of 18th February.

All that silky talk about change and other crap seems to be the part of history, and people like Rehman Malik, Farooq H. Naek, Babar Awan and many others look no different from the Wasi Zafar, Dr. Sher Afgun and Sheikh Rashid. Only the faces have changed, while the rest is the same and even much worst, as they are puncturing our hopes.

The rogue, thuggish, silly, and gutter tactics of Hillary Clinton to somehow gain lead upon Barack Obama are getting out of control now. As she is seeing the imminent defeat in the primaries and getting the ultimate nomination from the Democrats, she is now trying to adopt every nefarious trick in the bag of evil.

She is saying that she won’t hesitate to drop nuclear bombs on Iran, if needed. She has reiterated her resolve and has said that she won’t take her words back. So much for the donations pouring in from the Israel and the support of Jewish lobby in the Washington.

While strictly criticizing their predecessors, current coalition government of Pakistan is actually following the foot steps of Shaukat Aziz and company. In last few days, there are news items of new loans, from international institutions as well as friendly countries, streaming in Pakistan for one reason or the other. However, no plans are made public on how to pay back what is already being taken by previous government.

Interestingly, with issues like crisis of power, shortage of commodities, rising inflation, insecurity and political uncertainty, World Bank still considers Pakistan as one of the best investment destinations of the world.

The cyclone, code name Nargis, that slammed into Myanmar (formerly Burma) has claimed 22,000 lives so far with more than 40,000 people still missing, making this worst calamity since 2004 Tsunami. Initially targeting Bangladesh, Cyclone Nargis smashed with shores of Myanmar in wee hours of Saturday, May 03, 2008.

Myanmar is under Military rule which first tried to stop news of cyclone being leaked out however, they now feel helpless against massive devastation and are allowing international rescue and relief agencies as well as governments to come and support in relief and rehabilitation.

The alliance of Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League, Awami National Party and JUI-Fazlu is one of the most fragile and un-natural alliance in the history of Pakistan and with every new day it’s getting new brunt.

The new fiasco regarding the blooper of interior advisor to Prime Minister Rehman Malik says it all. “Rehman Malik, representative of the federal government, approached the NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and said that since the rest of the three provinces have agreed to postpone the bye-elections, the Frontier Province should also follow suit,” these are the words of NWFP Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain.

The meetings of legal committee for the judges is just an eyewash and a deceptive curtain for the nation. The real issues are being offered and discussed on the sidelines of these. Zardari has almost agreed to the restoration of the judges, and as PML-N is sadly showing flexibility on this issue and has agreed to retain the PCO judges of Musharraf, it seems that something will come up before 12th May.

But Asif Ali Zardari, the co chairman of PPP is asking for some guarantees and he has asked Nawaz Sharif to ensure through Aitzaz Ahsan, that chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary won’t come and start hearing cases against NRO and other government things and also that Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry won’t take suo moto actions.