The sin of Pakistan

A person can commit a sin. A wrongdoing. An act that causes not only other people to suffer but to themselves suffer because that is how it has been happening since mankind has existed.

A group of people can sin together if they act in spite, vengeance or arrogance. Everyone in the group is to blame even those who did the act and those who sat there watching with indecisiveness in their heads. The sin of naivety. Allowing a wrongdoing is to sin too, because it causes people to suffer more.

In 1947 a piece of land was outlined and called Pakistan. In 1953 the first military dictatorship was established by Ghulam Muhammad in Pakistan. When Justice Munir had the option of denying him power, he gave all of it to him. Stating that the Constitutional Assembly had “lived in a fool’s paradise if ever seized with the notion that it was the sovereign body of the state.” Justice Munir was sure that to get real independence he must seek something beyond the law and hence allowed Ghulam Muhammad to overturn the political structure for something “better”.

This was followed by a number of coups. The longest one was lead Zia under the flag of islamization and against corrupt politicians. He did not relinquish power until his assassination.

The sin of Pakistan is not of the military or the corrupt politicians.

The history books will write on Pakistan as being the nation that was arrogant. The Arrogance of thinking of doing the right thing. We thought we had the solution and arrogantly paraded it around like there was a zero percent chance of a failure in our understanding or the solution itself. Countless leaders good or bad fell into this abyss.

To end this on a humorous note.

I sometimes like to think of our leaders like this xD