Problem No 2: the folk incharge aren`t sure either who fits where in the wagon wheel of national divisions, and they have even less of a clue what to do about it. A political leadership that doesn`t truly understand the society it represents and an army leadership insulated from the effects of its manipu-lations of society makes for a pretty disconnected decisionmaking grid. The silliness over talks with the TTP exemplifies the problem. There may be, and probably are, other reasons for the PMIzN and Imran Khan to preach reconciliation with the irreconcilable, but plain ignorance is too obvious a candidate to ignore. The Sharifs know Punjab and the perils that stalk it, and long ago they made the decision to co-opt those threats. But would Nawaz be able to tell a Hakeemullah from a Baitullah or a Fazlullah from a Mangal Bagh? And while the PML-N sat in the opposition in Islamabad the past five years, parliament is entirely out of the loop on how, for example, Fata radiates trouble into Afghanistan and Pakistan proper. Pakistan is a very different country to the one Sharif led in `99. Cyril Almeida
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:54:50 +0000
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