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Islamabad diary: Why it's hard to believe these Napoleons, Islam and Politics, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and Politics
Islamabad diary: Why it's hard to believe these Napoleons
By Ayaz Amir
Friday, August 08, 2008

Their very presence in Pakistan inspires disbelief. For the moment they arrive in Pakistan the first thought to cross people's minds is how long will they stay? Pakistan seems to be a temporary port of call. They are more at home in Dubai or London. Maybe, for a change, they are serious about doing something: impeaching the albatross strung around Pakistan's neck, President Pervez Musharraf, the master of our discontent for eight years and more, a calamity in a long line of calamities this country has suffered since its birth.

But why is it that the worm of doubt gnaws at hearts made tough by scepticism? Maybe we are dealing with withered hearts long deprived of the ability to seek out hope. But maybe, just maybe, it's the experience of these dotards which tells us that their ability to promise things far outshines their ability to deliver them. Since the highpoint of the February elections the Caesars playing dice with the nation's fortunes have done their best to dash popular expectations. Their soaring ineptitude has reinforced the impression that there's no hand on the tiller, no direction to the ship of state. The Yanks are breathing down our necks, telling us what they expect and what they want us to do. And we seem to have given up even the pretence of being autonomous in our national affairs.

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