Such people should have been given seats in the front row, not made to wait outside the celebration marquee. Those who have, unfortunately, monopolised state power in Pakistan, were the ones who hardly took part in the Independence Movement or, for that matter, in the War of Independence 1857. The army first tasted political power when late Field Marshal Ayub was made the Defence Minister as sitting Army Chief. We have now militias of religious political parties and sectarian brutes like JUI(F) and TLP strut around as political workers. This brief review of the state of the nation pushes one to the conclusion that the entire state system has to be remodelled to make the country viable or else the ship is already sinking in any case.
