M Bilal Hamza<\/p>\n
Leafing through the history volumes takes us to the unusual events incepted at the start of the second decade since the formation of Pakistan, where American \u201cconspiracies\u201d had started off roping in<\/p>\n
If bashing America in Pakistan wouldn\u2019t get you public patronage, what else could be? Come what may, it will work wonders, especially if you\u2019re riding around the political big dipper. From holding them accountable for the plundering, pillaging, and marauding of your country\u2019s tangible resources via IMF\u2019s vicious jaws to accusing them of your deprivations in technology and research, the US, \u201cthe depredator\u201d serves all your purposes through one window operation. Recently when political corridors of Pakistan were subjected to skirmishes during the regime change, political point-scoring resorted to \u201cPlus America\u201d and \u201cNo America\u201d tirades yet again, while cranking up the polarized narratives to newly known thresholds.
\nIf I dare to speak a bit about the US\u2019s recent interventions in Pakistan, they are mostly tied in with philanthropy, educational excellence and women\u2019s empowerment. The ones where Pakistan chose to scratch their back into Asian ventures were Pakistan\u2019s picks, and not America\u2019s surprising plots. On history cards, if I may not be sounding like another nutter on the fringe, the US only managed to dabble around Asia when it got life support from its foolish allies, who threw them in fire and blood for the sake of appeasing the intruder. If this wouldn\u2019t happen, the latter would teeter on the brink, reeling!
\nHowever, the problem here is a bit off-key. It\u2019s as eccentric a problem as it may go with us, every time! Pakistan is so done with the conspiracy theories that the US churns out in its backyard, and which hurt the public sentiments\u2014fragile and tenuous, always prone to get cracked away. When the ploys instigated by the US brim up, Pakistanis can\u2019t take them anymore and this is where the rebuttal sets in. The processions are set up and the anti-America rallies are stirred up. This hurts the US in return and the country that exists some 12,346 km \u201cat stone\u2019s throw away\u201d from Pakistan through the shortest airline route, gets the lesson!
\nIn the recent political upheaval, following the same lines of action, the unsolicited implication of the US into Pakistan\u2019s internal politics has had an unprecedented \u201clion\u2019s share\u201d. The then government party, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI), accused the United States of sending in a foreign conspiracy letter, stating that the foreign conspiracy was afoot to remove Imran Khan from power, touting the Opposition\u2019s no-confidence motion against the then Prime Minister as a testimony of \u201cforeign-funded\u201d move to topple the latter\u2019s government. In response, the US denied the allegations forthwith. Just before these allegations, the then Prime Minister Imran Khan clearly identified nation as a free group without any liability to obey any dictations sent by the US. With this happening on one side, the newly incumbent Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif chose to step on the gas and rather went too overboard saying \u2018beggars are not Choosers\u2019. He pressed indirectly that the country would face consequences if it gets dismembered from the financial favours bestowed upon by Americans.
\nO Conspiracy! Let\u2019s dive into history to know you!
\nLeafing through the history volumes takes us to the unusual events incepted at the start of the second decade since the formation of Pakistan, where American \u201cconspiracies\u201d had started off roping in. Field Marshal Ayub Khan seized the presidency from Iskander Mirza in a coup. He has been President of Pakistan since 1965 and its ruler under martial law since the revolution of 1958. His tenure tumbled in 1969 when East Pakistan\u2019s protests and labour strikes took a toll on his ruling status whereupon his forced resignation came about. During his reign, from alpha to omega, he did everything that a serving army man was not supposed to do, and which is why a cornerstone of an otherwise infamous precedent had been laid down since, that continued to hang over the heads of democracy, if there exists any, like the sword of Damocles.
\nHe somehow felt the need to come clean hand to the public and decided to write a book named \u2018Friends Not Masters\u201d some 60 years ago. This literally got people taken aback with a shock and it was a rather blowing out of the water sort of situation. Swallowing a military dictator as a penman was the last thing they wanted after having suffered the atrocities of the last coup. A so-called political biography, it accounted for a plethora of concocted memoirs than any factual history sheet; Mr Khan was seen justifying his domestic and diplomatic policies left right centre and essentially setting up a moral trap where his \u201cscrupulous anecdotes\u201d had to be fed to readers. One of the critical blogs rightly termed M. Khan\u2019s \u2018academic adventure\u2019 as an opportunity of knowing one species of \u201cThird World\u201d leadership from an earnest\u2013and canny\u2013horse\u2019s mouth.
\n\u2018Friends Not Masters\u2019 explicated everything but the logical and moral grounds for the reprehensible subversive activity that the writer initiated being an assailant. It biasedly elucidated the relationship between a superpower and Pakistan with the former\u2019s status being euphemize as a synonym for a conspirer. This political biography entails Mr Khan\u2019s journey of rising to power and the tribulations of an inchoate, newly independent nation, and implicated the readers into knowing his reconciliation efforts for the demands of justice, modernization, and stability\u2014-yes you read it absolutely right, \u2018Stability\u2019. With prevalent red herrings, the book sort of leads the audiences astray, essentially toward a false conclusion. For example, the mentioning of turmoil combated by the Commander in Chief lacked the due explanation of the politics behind the 1951 conspiracy he helped suppress. Consequently, with fuddling equations, and ambiguous whirlwinds of events, the books slowly died out on shelves and so were on the minds of avid readers who yearned for factual lines than any delusive profusion. A late-night jest those days implied: \u201cif fallacious political satire had a face, this book would\u2019ve been an epitome of it.\u201d
\nHowever, \u201cFriends Not Masters,\u201d if not impressed with its cognitive content, certainly set a precedent: It taught the following political leaderships to be aware of the power of anti-American sentiment selling, a win-win and a repertoire to be acquired. From \u2018Friends Not Masters\u2019 to \u2018Absolutely Not\u2019, the power of saying \u201cNo\u201d to global heavyweights has remained in fashion, no matter if we really mean it!
\nTen years ago, when a renowned global Research Center, Pew, held research regarding the views held by Pakistanis of the US, Roughly three-in-four Pakistanis (74 per cent) consider the U.S. an enemy, up from 69% in the year 2011 and 64 per cent In 2009. As of 2014, 59 per cent of Pakistanis consider the United States to be an enemy, reduced from 74 per cent in 2012. According to Pew\u2019s stats, the Pakistanis had the least favourable views of the US compared with 39 countries in the world surveyed!
\nWell, having said that, wouldn\u2019t it be better for Pakistanis to stop offloading the brunt of their miseries on someone else shoulder. Their downtrodden economy, falsified research excellence on their fake educational hubs, working ethics full of moral corruption, and unscrupulous lines of action have nothing to do with any international conspiracy. Stephen A Douglas, a former member of the United States Senate, quoted: \u201cThere are only two sides to this question.
\nEvery man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.\u201d It makes sense to us and so to them, but here is a question pops out: \u201cDoesn\u2019t everyman must be for Pakistan or against it?\u201d Do they know what it takes to coin such daring statements? Do they have choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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