Ref: – For consolidating diarchy, Musharraf may capitalize on USA support.
Dear Sir
Musharraf has proved all the skeptics wrong who were saying that there would be no free and fair elections in Pakistan. Now the same skeptics (including most of the noises through Indian media) are clamoring and leading the vicious propaganda that Musharraf ought to resign in the face of electoral defeat of PML (Q), allegedly Musharraf’s party and resounding victory of PPP and PML (N), the parties of Late Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
But in this cacophony one good news has come that USA and its allies want Musharraf to continue which puts a tremendous responsibility on Musharraf to objectively analyze the situation in Pakistan and take the decisions in view of and as given below: –
(1)- Since 1999 if Musharraf has remained at the helm of Pakistan’s affairs then it is mainly due to the support of armed forces of Pakistan which has always played an important and dominant role in shaping Pakistan, what it is today. Therefore Musharraf is under ethical obligation to preserve the supremacy of martial element in Pakistan.
(2)- This pre-eminence of martial element in tandem with democracy where all the civil jurisdictions are with elected representatives (politicians) and martial jurisdictions (like traditional of defense, internal security, ascent to legislation etc along with the additional jurisdiction of human rights in contemporary world) with elected President is known as diarchy in political parlance.
(3)- In this diarchy President need not have his political party. Musharraf ought to realize an important and crucial difference that elected President with the support of political party is mainly in the personal interest of such President but President elected by the people without the backing of his political party will be in the interest of the martial jurisdictions protected by the constitutional provisions.
(4)- Therefore Musharraf should keep away from any political party and act as a people’s President for safeguarding the martial jurisdictions of Pakistan while leaving all the civil jurisdictions to people’s representatives (politicians) mainly backed up by their political parties.
(5)- Here Musharraf ought to keep a larger vision in his mind. Pakistan played a historic role in dismembering India in 1947 and history has again brought Pakistan in a situation where Pakistan is going to play another historic role as a leader of diarchal democracy, the political system which is going to be the basis of ‘Federation / United States of Secular Democratic SAARC Countries’.
(6)- Contrary to the popular belief & misleading Indian propaganda, it is not the other countries of SAARC which are politically troubled but it is mainly India which is undergoing deep political trouble due to unprecedented economical progress, 8-9 % consistent GDP growth of India (caused by huge foreign money inflows) which is benefiting only a small segment of Indian population at the cost of majority of Indians who have been further pushed to struggle against their abject deprivation.
(7)- If this explosive political situation in India has not exploded so far then it is mainly due to historical and cultural factors of Hindu majority India having practiced untold cruelties (including untouchablity) on so called lower castes (Schedule castes etc.) for centuries with the result humane sensitivities of so called upper castes and fighting will power of so called lower castes have been blunted against the cruelties against and miseries of deprived castes of Hindu order.
(8)- But now under democratic pressure things are changing as evident from the fact that increasingly the upper castes (who still control most of the industrial & financial institutions) dominated central political parties (Congress and BJP) have recently lost their political relevance in Hindi heart land of Uttar Pradesh and going to witness the same phenomenon in coming elections to number of Provinces and Parliament of India.
(9)- This explosive political situation caused mainly by fully civilian democracy of India in tandem with on-going political problems of other SAARC countries will soon constrain the world community to work & push for ‘Federation / United States of Secular Democratic SAARC Countries’ based on diarchy. Needless to say that in this diarchal form of SAARC, the only country (Pakistan) which has a successful experience of running diarchy, will play a leading role in realizing the historic necessity of ‘Federation / United States of Secular Democratic SAARC Countries’ based on diarchy.
Therefore Musharraf ought to: –
(i)- Give up all his political connections and become a people’s President.
(ii)- Zealously protect martial jurisdictions by consolidating diarchy in Pakistan.
(iii)- Be prepared to lead Pakistan to again play a historic role (in contrast to what it played in 1947) in order to realize in near future the necessity of inevitable ‘Federation / United States of Secular Democratic SAARC Countries’ based on diarchy.
Yours truly
Hem Raj Jain
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