Chowrangi

There is a lots of hue and cry over the election of the Zardari as the new president of Pakistan, and though nation looks forward for stability, progress, peace and certainty there is lots of talk in the air about the viability and sanity of the Zardari as the president of Pakistan, and the past of the man doesn’t let him off the hook.

It’s the flaw or virtue of our political system. The ironic thing is that neither we elected our Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and neither we elected our President Asif Ali Zardari and we didn’t have a clue about his time. The amazing thing about the Pakistani political experiment is that our system is the one most consciously designed to limit those risks of foreign military adventure, and for most of our history, it hasn’t worked out quite well.

We are not only weaker from inside due to the internal strife and lack of national unity and uniformity, we are also being under constant threat from our all borders by the external forces and we haven’t been at good terms with our neighbors and things are getting worst day by day.

Our foreign policy is very flawed. The dominant assumption was the importance of avoiding foreign “entanglements,” of warning about the risks of intervening in the affairs of others. Indeed, that policy of nonintervention was thought by our nation’s founder Quaid-e-Azam to be a basic demarcation between the politics of the old and new worlds.

But like other lessons from him, we have also forgotten this one.

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