[DAWN] By any measure, Pakistain is a remarkable country. What has gone on in and around Islamabad's so-called red zone over the past 10 days or so has confirmed just how dramatic and unpredictable high politics in Pakistain is.Notwithstanding the stakes, however, the drama that has unfolded is likely to deepen the disillusionment that a large number of ordinary people harbour vis-a-vis how this country is run and the role that the proverbial masses play in running it.
Even prior to the advent of 24-hour television, there was little pretence amongst the majority of Pakistain's people that they could even access the structures of power that exist in this country, let alone change them. For a brief and heady period immediately after live TV channels went
kaboom!into our lives, a happy lie persisted that the media would be the fountainhead of change.