09-02-2006, 09:24 AM
<b>EDITORIAL: Government is besieged with popular disbelief</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On the other side, too, no one really knew what was happening. The JWP was talking about the Nawabâs body lying at Quetta CMH, Sardar Sherbaz Mazari put out a press release claiming the body had been sent to Islamabad. But this was understandable since the government was dissembling furiously all the time. It also shows that while the government was trying to hide its many blunders, the other side was also not averse to making political capital from a tragedy. The Nawabâs sons were obviously registering their protest at the governmentâs callousness.
The military and its civilian front are besieged with popular disbelief. They have both lost much moral and political ground. Worse, this episode has created new fault-lines in Pakistanâs polity that will not be cemented easily in the future. A greater national tragedy could be in the making if the consequences of this action end up reverberating in an adversely changing regional and global climate. *<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The military and its civilian front are besieged with popular disbelief. They have both lost much moral and political ground. Worse, this episode has created new fault-lines in Pakistanâs polity that will not be cemented easily in the future. A greater national tragedy could be in the making if the consequences of this action end up reverberating in an adversely changing regional and global climate. *<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->