END GAMES- POLITICAL CRISIS IN PAKISTAN

As expected the ever powerful Pakistani Military walked in to save the day yet again for Pakistan. The incompetent Nawaz Sharif government camp failed to negotiate a political settlement with the twin protests of Imran Khan and Dr Tahir Ul Qadri. As predicted, the real brokers walked in the pavilion but only after the corrupt regime ruling the nuclear armed country requested the Chief of Army Staff to negotiate on their behalf. The Nawaz Sharif regime had no other option after ordering crack downs on these protests thrice to quell this issue in traditional third world style but  the Police Officers simply refused to move without specific written orders after the Sharif government stance to frame their kin in a similar move at Lahore resulting in the killing of 14 protesters and 90 injured including women and children. The written orders for such a crackdown by Nawaz Sharif means defying the moral grounds but more than that the clear cut warning from the Army to refrain from any such move after the state terrorism at Lahore stated above. Sharif brothers holds no moral authority in the face of election rigging and corruption charges leveled by the mass protests at Pakistan, concurred by clear cut majority of educated and aware Pakistanis. Under the circumstances  picking up a direct confrontation with the country's most powerful institution means Gallows for the Sharif Clan for charges ranging from murder to treason if tide now surging, throw them off the board. It's a battle of survival for Nawaz Sharif and his brand of politics in Pakistan where they were always above the Law of the land and thrived under the international concepts of "Neo Realism" where the global powers extract cooperation amid anarchy from the world and end justifies the means. Across the board accountability, as demanded by these protests at Pakistan means questions being raised on billions of US dollars which vanished in thin air filling the coffers of the Sharifs, Zardaris, Bhuttos and their brand of politicians at the expense of Pakistani public.

Inviting the Army may turn out to be the biggest blunder Nawaz Sharif committed in this battle of survival for his unholy empire. Nawaz has had the support of the western governments including UK and US but when it comes to his staunch support in the neighboring traditional rivals to Pakistan, India, by the Indian Nationalists, it stung the Army into disgust and they smelt treason. The Army is driven by the pulse of it's men who represents the middle classes of Pakistan and believe on merit and rule of Law above rest. These ideals are inscribed into them by the founding father of the nation, Mr Jinah, and for these ideals foremost they don't hesitate in laying their lives for defending the physical and ideological frontiers of the country. However, the Army realize for a fact that Nawaz Sharif and his cronies are the Frankenstein created by their predecessors to legitimize their dictatorship. For that reason alone Army is treading very carefully not to step on to any landmine in a situation where they are already committed in a "War Within" against the extremist forces spreading terror and lawlessness making Pakistan a terrorist heaven. Nawaz Sharif under pressure and capitalizing on his age old methods of give and take formula, ceded the foreign and defense policy to the Army. But the Army does not trust the words of Nawaz and rightly so considering his dubious credentials. In the meantime all the nepotistic characters who have their vested interests on stake in case of a system overhaul which is being demanded by the educated masses led by the middle class are pitching their forces to save Nawaz and Co. But as this scribe pointed in last three successive articles published on this blog, the broker of this political deadlock having the power to settle this clash of "Status quo Vs Rights" is the Pakistan Army headed by a patriotic man whose family laid lives for the country.

General Raheel Sharif, Chief of Pakistani Army is surely in a tight spot where he needs to resolve this issue in a way all parties are more or less on board. However, the bias of General Raheel will be determined by the pulse of the force he commands which gives him such mighty powers. The force which is essentially Pakistani Nationalist and Patriots. A force which clearly wants Pakistan to grow into an economically viable, fair and just country with equal rights for all. Idealistic views to many commentators and rightly so in this nepotistic system which defines Pakistan but the force General Raheel commands are idealists for they don't mind laying their lives and that of their kith and kin for their motherland. This Nationalistic ideology is the philosophy through which the military attains the moral power to meddle into the civilian politics and trusted by the educated and aware Pakistanis to include the workers and sympathizers of the ruling party too. Irrespective of the media wars and political maneuvering of the ruling elite, the decision and outcome of this political deadlock which the fragile Pakistani economy can no longer afford, Army will decide sooner then latter to end it all............question is for whose answers are being sorted out by the Army is, how to end it well?...........................