AGL 38.69 Increased By ▲ 0.47 (1.23%)
AIRLINK 129.00 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.02%)
BOP 8.70 Increased By ▲ 0.85 (10.83%)
CNERGY 4.76 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (2.15%)
DCL 8.63 Increased By ▲ 0.31 (3.73%)
DFML 38.43 Decreased By ▼ -0.51 (-1.31%)
DGKC 84.80 Increased By ▲ 2.86 (3.49%)
FCCL 35.05 Increased By ▲ 1.63 (4.88%)
FFBL 75.80 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (0.12%)
FFL 12.82 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
HUBC 110.69 Increased By ▲ 0.33 (0.3%)
HUMNL 14.40 Increased By ▲ 0.39 (2.78%)
KEL 5.44 Increased By ▲ 0.29 (5.63%)
KOSM 7.71 Increased By ▲ 0.04 (0.52%)
MLCF 41.10 Increased By ▲ 1.30 (3.27%)
NBP 71.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.82 (-1.13%)
OGDC 191.65 Increased By ▲ 3.36 (1.78%)
PAEL 26.30 Increased By ▲ 0.67 (2.61%)
PIBTL 7.50 Increased By ▲ 0.13 (1.76%)
PPL 157.25 Increased By ▲ 4.58 (3%)
PRL 25.99 Increased By ▲ 0.60 (2.36%)
PTC 18.85 Increased By ▲ 1.15 (6.5%)
SEARL 83.00 Increased By ▲ 0.58 (0.7%)
TELE 7.81 Increased By ▲ 0.22 (2.9%)
TOMCL 33.00 Increased By ▲ 0.43 (1.32%)
TPLP 8.39 Decreased By ▼ -0.03 (-0.36%)
TREET 16.72 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.36%)
TRG 56.50 Increased By ▲ 0.46 (0.82%)
UNITY 28.90 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (0.42%)
WTL 1.36 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.74%)
BR100 10,769 Increased By 110.8 (1.04%)
BR30 31,925 Increased By 593.2 (1.89%)
KSE100 100,217 Increased By 948.2 (0.96%)
KSE30 31,262 Increased By 229.7 (0.74%)
Print Print 2004-04-21

Partly Facetious: all puppeteers of sorts

"The National Reconstruction Bureau has decided to bring the police under the Nazims."
Published April 21, 2004

"The National Reconstruction Bureau has decided to bring the police under the Nazims."
"Nazims as in Musharraf's brainchild, his decentralisation..."
"Surprising isn't it? On the one hand he wants to decentralise at the grass root level and at the other end he is consolidating powers under the office of the president."
"See the grass roots are where the political parties, the Nawalas and the Jiyalas held sway. Now with the Nazims owing loyalty to Musharraf if anyone, there is no danger of anyone along the line challenging the powers of the president."
"Pretty clever if you ask me."
"Exactly. And it's the same with everything else he has done so far - consolidate powers even through decentralisation if you know what I mean."
"Oh yes, I do. But what I found amazing is that the NRB came up with this suggestion and..."
"Did the President come up with the suggestion of being allowed to keep his uniform and reneging on the seventeenth amendment?"
"Well, no it's the Jiyalas turned Musharrafites that are suggesting that..."
"Did he have anything to do with the establishment of the National Security Council?"
"He had everything to do with the establishment of the NSC."
"Yes but when it was established he got his Lotas to do so - he wasn't even in the chamber right."
"What does that make us ordinary citizens?"
"Well, we are not important yet. We will only become important when we have had enough. However, the tribal people are also puppeteers of sorts - apparently they have started a hunt for those they were trying to protect a few months or even weeks ago and our army is happy to let them do so. My question is why would they give up the al Qaeda operatives they catch to the Pakistan army?"
"The army is not naïve - but it's so much better not to get killed and more importantly to kill your own people instead of the enemy.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2004

Comments

Comments are closed.