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| A mindset frozen in time |
| 2014-10-08 |
| [DAWN] PRIME Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... betrays a mindset frozen in time when he says he doesn't understand why people protest against him or seek his removal at a time when he is just warming up in his third term of being in power. Whether PTI will be able to acquire power to rule Pakistain or deliver the change it talks about is one thing. Whether it will be able to bring Sharif down through its incessant fulmination is another. "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come," Victor Hugo said. Unfortunately for Nawaz, "Go Nawaz Go" is sticking. Triggers for mass uprisings can never be predicted with scientific precision. Did all of La Belle France rise up in arms when the French Revolution transpired? Didn't the collective American conscience accept the notion of 'separate and equal' in Plessy vs Ferguson (1896) only to reject it six decades later after Brown v Board of Education declared it unconstitutional? Does the US remember minority rights activists who came before Martin Luther King as fondly? Was Musharraf ousted and were judges restored because all of Pakistain -- urban and rural -- rose up for rule of law? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Well, it's period in time where he was happy, so he thinks he'll stay there. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-08 07:32 |
| #1 IMO, it's not a mindset, it's the genotype. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-08 02:31 |