World is not short of stupid. Search for one you will find many. In our
everyday life, we all interact with them. There can be many idiots in the
society where we live, we study and we work. The wise men are those who avoid
their company because staying with them can be perilous for them. We can suffer
from the silly mistakes they always make. Those who have fool friends might be
well aware of the demerits of having a fool confidant. The prudent elders who
once were victim of fools’ company transfer their experience to other people urging
that never be friend with them, because their company is a waste of time and
you will learn nothing from them except stupidity. Moreover, their friendship
can be harmful to you and can land you in a big trouble.
It is easy for intelligent and smart to prevent friendship
with fools who are living in their neighborhood, studying with them in class or
working with them in offices. But, if someone has a blood relation with a fool
than its gets difficult to abstain from them especially in the culture of joint
family system where we live. How can we keep a distance from them as in a
situation of living under one roof our success and failure get closely interrelated
with them. Foolishness of a son will cause suffering for his father; similarly,
a father will suffer if his son is a fool. For instance, Shahrukh Jatoi with
his stupidity implicated his father in a terrible trouble when he shot dead Shahzaib
Khan. Sikander Jatoi, father of killer, an affluent industrialist spent large
sum of money to save his child from the law. A dunce brother will put the other
brother in trouble. Take the example of Mughal Emperor Humayun who lost the
throne of India not because of his rival, Sher Shah Suri, but by virtue of the
follies of his own brother Kamran, who thought that Sher Shah after ousting his
brother from the throne would make him sit on the throne. However, conversely he
was the next to bear the brunt of Sher Shah’s aggression and he lost the
wealthy province of Punjab and fled to Kabul.
Those who have fools in their homes are unlucky, but more unfortunate
are those who have fool rulers in their country. Pakistan in its 67 years of
history never cherished a wise ruler. The change of government can be termed as
change of fools, where one fool was replaced by another. As a result of their
follies and unwise strategies, people are suffering from hunger, poverty,
illiteracy, bomb blasts, terrorism, ethnic conflicts and sectarian violence.
One of the signs of fool is that they are always in problems
and trouble. They can’t live a peaceful and tension free life and most of their
problems are their self created. Pakistan since its creation has always been in
problems which were created by itself. Like a responsible international state
it has never adopted the policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of
foreign countries. It has always muddled in the matters of other countries, it
has always supported dictators in the Middle East, it has continuously been interfering in the
affair of its neighbors which has created many problems like four wars with
India, hostility with Afghanistan and Iran. Due to unfriendly eastern and
western borders, it decided to nurture, feed and breed jihadists and export it
to foreign countries, but now it is facing Jihad in its own territory, it made
nuclear weapons for its defense, but now it is facing problems in defending the
nuclear weapons from Talibans.
It has not merely created foes in the international world,
but it has created enemies inside its territory as well. Owing to stupid policies,
It is facing a freedom movement in its largest province Balochistan which
covers 44 percent of its land. It has deployed more than 0.2 million army in
Balochistan, but still unable to crush the rebellion spanning over 10 years
long.
Another symptom of fool is that it he never learn from their
mistakes and keep on repeating their blunders again and again. The brutal use of force against Bengalis
resulted in the chopping off of the country in 1971 which is now Bangladesh .
What lesson they learnt from this catastrophic humiliation? And answer is that nothing, because only wise
learn from their mistakes, not fools. The atrocities which were committed in
Bangladesh are being replicated again in Balochistan. It is said that giving
advice to a fool is like giving medicine to a dead body. Fools don’t like the
words of wisdom. They believe everything
they do is right. When someone suggests them not to use force in Balochistan,
the result of this might be same as that of Bangladesh. They say that
Bangladesh’s case was quite different. We had no land routes to Bangladesh, it
was surrounded by India from three sides and its population was 20 times bigger
than Balochistan.
A major trait of the fools is that they blame others for
their failures and never accept the responsibility of their failures. Pakistan
after 67 years of independence is unable to stand on its feet and is dependent
on foreign donors. Its economy is getting weaker day by day. Security
conditions are getting worse. State can’t function even a year if foreign
donation halts. Who is responsible for the culture of dependency, economic
crisis and deteriorating law and order situation? Instead of accepting their
short comings they blame others. Economic crisis is due to America’s war on
terrorism. America has given only 25bn dollar as coalition support fund,
whereas we have spent more than 80bn dollar.
Due to someone else’s war there are suicide attacks and forces in large
number are deployed in different areas to stop it. But, reality is that war on
terrorism is confined only to KPK. There are other problems as well. Who is responsible for sectarian violence,
every now and then there is a bomb blasts which take lives of numerous
civilians. This sectarianism is not spread by America; but it is a proxy war of
two of the beloved Islamic states of Pakistan, One is Iran and other is Saudi
Arabia. The economic hub of the country Karachi is burning because of ethnic
conflict not due to war on terrorism, but because of militant wings of political
parties. Good amount of forces are stationed in Karachi because of the ethnic
conflicts and sectarianism, is it America’s duty to pay them? More than 0.2 million army is deployed in
Balochistan to curb the insurgency. This huge deployment of forces has exhausted
the treasury. It is not America’s responsibility to pay for deploying troops in
Balochistan because this insurgency is not the byproduct of War on terrorism.
It is said about fools that they can be never successful and
the main obstacle between fools and their success is their foolishness. Like
AIDS, foolishness is incurable. It is bound to spread and have no mechanism to
be curbed. Those who think that Pakistan one day will be a successful state, live
in the paradise of fools. To be a successful state, establishment has to change
its mindset; country cannot become a prosperous and peaceful state with this
attitude. The ongoing drama of Imran khan and Tahir-ul-Qadiri and the response
of Nawaz government in handling this issue again symbolize that Pakistan is being
ruled by fools. Both the leaders Khan and Qadiri are talking of a revolution.
But sense will prevail only by bringing revolution into the mindset. That is
the area where revolution is needed hardly.
