The Ex-Servicemen and Bureaucrats & Their Consicence
Geo has been repeating that interview with retired gen. Kayani. Recently the ex-servicemen have been flexing their muscles. Troubling consciences are known to strike at men and women of good will at all times. Even ordinary mortals like you and me are troubled and stricken with conscience generated guilt and remorse at odd times.
But am intrigued with one odd phenomenon. All the recent public displays of conscience by the retired army personnels and bureaucrats have invariably been against the Musharraf administration.
Do you not find this odd? I mean, all these fine men are ex-servicemen (and bureaucrats) - "retired" after having "served" the nation - then they also served as parachuted civilian administrators in the higher echelons. I am sure they must have seen other wrongs and injustices perpetrated by the high and the mighty in the course of their "illustrious" careers. How come their conscience only bothers them about the Musharraf administration?
Or are they oblivious to the other ills of the society they lived in? How come they hold their peace and silence over other gave issues that we read about, that we discuss, that we notice everyday? Feudalism, karo-kari, watta-satta, petty jirgas handling out capital punishment, petty lords with armies and jails, the drug mafia, the parochial mafia, the vigilant arbitrariness, the suicide by mothers with their children, the collection of bhattas, pollution and increase in lung diseases, absence of schools and medical care in rural areas, their own "purchases" of plots of lands at throw away prices... this is a never ending list.
Why are the "ex-servicemen" conscience dumb stricken with other "issues"?
Please pass this query to your friends also!
But am intrigued with one odd phenomenon. All the recent public displays of conscience by the retired army personnels and bureaucrats have invariably been against the Musharraf administration.
Do you not find this odd? I mean, all these fine men are ex-servicemen (and bureaucrats) - "retired" after having "served" the nation - then they also served as parachuted civilian administrators in the higher echelons. I am sure they must have seen other wrongs and injustices perpetrated by the high and the mighty in the course of their "illustrious" careers. How come their conscience only bothers them about the Musharraf administration?
Or are they oblivious to the other ills of the society they lived in? How come they hold their peace and silence over other gave issues that we read about, that we discuss, that we notice everyday? Feudalism, karo-kari, watta-satta, petty jirgas handling out capital punishment, petty lords with armies and jails, the drug mafia, the parochial mafia, the vigilant arbitrariness, the suicide by mothers with their children, the collection of bhattas, pollution and increase in lung diseases, absence of schools and medical care in rural areas, their own "purchases" of plots of lands at throw away prices... this is a never ending list.
Why are the "ex-servicemen" conscience dumb stricken with other "issues"?
Please pass this query to your friends also!
posted by temporal at 6/04/2008
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