
Pakistan has witnessed in the hearts of its general
public, the long and immensely oscillating waves of ultra-extremism and deeply
normalized political emotions in the past few decades amid Afghan Jihad, post
9/11 and current relation of US with the militant group Afghan Taliban. But
what the socio-political analysts sitting at Langley or SIS Building
miscalculate most often is the amplitude and nature of the 'normal' political
emotions of the people of Pakistan.
Every time the west tries to push Pakistan to some
point of its own advantage like against the Soviet Union during its invasion of
Afghanistan or war against militants in Afghanistan post 9/11, a lag occurs in
the emotional sequence of people of Pakistan.
Like they were still recovering from the wave of
ultra-extremism after the death of Gen Zia ul Haq and end of Afghan Jihad
during the alternating and relatively less extreme and even nearly secular
governments of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, and 9/11 occurred and the US
immediately came to Pakistan again, for armed help. Operations against Afghan
Taliban, about whom a large number of Pakistanis held political sympathy, again
jumbled the political line of sense relating to extremism, of people of Pakistan.
This wax and wane of induced political emotions
have made Pakistanis quite sensitive and prompt whenever it comes to their
views regarding the political system of their country and the approach and
ideology of their political leaders. So it is going to be certainly a hell fun
when the western actors will launch the Nobel Laureate Malala Yousufzai as a
politician in Pakistan, in this very decade.
As far as the non-controversial and almost clear
past and base of Malala is concerned, only one question can be raised upon it.
And it is that which of her "achievement", all of her work,
organizations and stuff, is hard for any other common person to accomplish when
whole of the Western World and numerous inclined NGOs are pampering you in
every aspect and respect.
One possible answer to this maybe is graduating
from Oxford.
It will be worth seeing how common Pakistanis will
receive this fresh leftist addition to their country's politics, who form the
core of the political system of Pakistan, and whose majority towards rejecting
the terminal leftist parties and ultra-rightists is increasing swiftly and
simultaneously, and they are shifting towards non-orthodox moderate
fundamentalist political circles like that of the rightist portion of PTI or
that specific part of PMLN.
The far-right and far-left both are far from the
actual and practical Islam, not just the far right. This is what the other
thing the analysts and think tanks sitting at Langley and others misestimate.
And whenever common Muslims start moving towards the actual teachings of their
religion, they spurn both. So it is quite hard to influence a dominantly
religious Islamic circle through an apparently leftist personality, and when
the majority of the people already denounce that personality. The whole
investment seems to be desertion.
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