A Panacea for All Ills?
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd.)
Westridge, Rawalpindi
I was really baffled to hear Gen. Hameed Gul say on a private TV talk show that 70 per cent of Pakistan’s problems will be solved the day Gen. Musharraf is put on trial! What a simple solution and one wonders what is stopping the whiz kids in the government from making use of this sure shot panacea to the country’s ills?
Imagine, the scourge of load-shedding and elephantine problems of unemployment, price inflation, terrorism and suicide bombings, corruption, poor governance et al. instantaneously disappear and milk and honey flowing from all rivers and canals of Pakistan as soon as Musharraf’s trial begins! Or, is it that those who matter dismiss the know-all General as someone too fond of hearing his own voice and ever ready to proffer unsolicited advice on any matter under the sun.
Probably the General has good reason to dislike Musharraf but it would still do him good to recollect:
“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren\'t we like that wise old bird?”
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