The National Trauma

For the past couple of months I have been extremely busy with the commissioning of a large project and had little time to pay attention to news and other events, although some very significant things happened during this period. In spite of my not paying attention those who visited me managed to make statements that showed how traumatized the Pakistani society is due to what is going on. Here are some examples:

1.       The Nato massacre in Mahmond is an act of provocation which will be followed by skirmishes and a full scale invasion.

2.       The Americans are trying to weaken Pakistan economically to such a degree that the Pakistanis will have no choice but to trade of their nuclear assets for their survival.

3.       If the government and the armed forces cannot exact retribution for the Mahmond massacre, the people will.

4.       Asif Zardari is conniving with the Americans to destroy Pakistan in order to save his ill-gotten wealth. If Pakistan remains, someday Peoples Party will lose power and the new government will reopen cases against him and register some more based on the current corruption.

5.       The Nato investigation of the Mahmond massacre is actually an attempt to cover-up the extremist Christian elements in Nato that are actually carrying out a crusade against Islam.

6.       There is a phenomenal rise in armed street crimes and the citizens if Sindh are more insecure than ever, thanks to the massive legitimization of illegal weapons held by criminal elements by Zulfiqar Mirza.

Unfortunately the national leadership is unable to do anything to ease this traumatic situation in the country which is already overburdened by fuel shortage, inflation and unemployment. You cannot fool the people for long when everyone can see that milk prices are soaring by about 3-4% per month. The resignation of Mr. Zardari and the announcement of fresh national and provincial assembly elections in a couple of months might bring some peace to the minds of the people of Pakistan.