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The trend hints that Pakistani generals come to power promising fire and fury against India but closer to retirement, they want to be remembered as statesmen and the ones who tried to forge peace
Most Pakistani generals spend their career deriding India. They are always at their Prime Minister s ear, feeding them all kinds of anti-India propaganda. This is one reason the relationship is so difficult.
The civilian leaders take one step forward and the military pulls them two steps back. However, looking at history, we noticed a trend among these generals. When they see retirement on the horizon, they suddenly become wise and rational no more war-mongering or saber-rattling.
Within Three or Four Years the Texture of Pakistani Life Changed
In this interview with Claudia Kramatschek, Nadeem Aslam talks about his native Pakistan, the military rule of Zia ul-Haque, and his most recent novel, about Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion
The era of Zia-ul-Haque has an indirect role in your new novel because Zia was responsible for Pakistan s fatal involvement in the Afghanistan war that still haunts the world today. Your family had to leave Pakistan under Zia s regime – was this a defining moment in your life?
Nadeem Aslam: I wouldn t be here talking to you if Zia s regime hadn t decided to support the mujaheddin in Afghanistan. Because when in 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, it was decided by the CIA and by the American administration that billions of dollars and weapons would be brought into Afghanistan via Pakistan to help the mujaheddin fighting against the Soviets. And there were people in Pakistan at that time who were sayin
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Pak faulty system vs bad governance
National
April 16, 2021
Our system is being run by a faulty system which actually looks like ad-hoc arrangements to manage day to day affairs and there is no inbuilt system to have security for the govt or it’s public. There is no check on the role of law and the most violated legislation is rule of law which is not followed by almost all the segments of the society. The sense of insecurity is one of the major reasons that we are left behind many nations. It is unfortunate that Pak politics could not grow better because of the lack of understanding of real way of democracy. We have been amending it and tailoring it to suit ourselves ignoring the national interest.