Karzai's Audacity & Lack of Leadership
Hamid Karzai is probably the only President of a country whose powers do not extend beyond the borders of his capital, Kabul. Yet, he is brave enough to threaten his nuclear-armed neighbor with an attack. Not once or twice, but he has repeatedly blamed Pakistan over the past years for terrorism in his own country. His recent remarks have been more than those trite blames we’re so used to. He has threatened to attack Pakistan! And what was our response? Nothing noteworthy that I can recall.
There are two questions that require immediate attention:
- Where does Karzai extract this latest wave of extreme courage from?
- Why is Pakistan unable to hit back at Karzai?
Unfortunately, the answer to both these questions is the lack of leadership in Pakistan. Let me quote some examples from the recent past when we had a strong leader in the form of Pervez Musharraf. When Karzai blamed Pakistan earlier, Musharraf had the courage to hit back at him. Here are few of the glimpses from the recent past:
Musharraf lashes out at Karzai on terror issue (Source)
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf lashed out at Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai in an interview with Canada AM, accusing him of misleading the public on the war on terror.
“I think he is purposely, purposely not speaking the truth. That is what I think,” Musharraf told host Beverly Thomson in an interview in New York on Tuesday.
“He knows the truth. He’s finding it more convenient for himself to hide the truth and cast all expression on Pakistan.”
Musharraf accused Karzai of casting blame on Pakistan to distract from the ethnic imbalance in the Afghan government.
Musharraf says Karzai ‘oblivious’ (Source)
Gen Musharraf told CNN that information about the Taleban that Mr Karzai handed him last month was “old and outdated.”
Gen Musharraf said he was “surprised and shocked” by reports suggesting that Mr Karzai had given intelligence information about the whereabouts and location of Mullah Mohammed Omar in Pakistan.
Gen Musharraf said the Afghan intelligence about the fugitive Afghan leader’s location was “nonsense.
Musharraf, Karzai exchanged Hot Words? (Source)
…..This enraged Gen. Musharraf and he compared Mr. Karzai to an ostrich adding that he had nothing else to do but to level charges.
“His Government has failed completely and he [Karzai] is unaware of the facts.” Gen. Musharraf is learnt to have also said Pakistan had always favoured peace in Afghanistan because “the state of anarchy there was exercising bad effects on Pakistan.”
He added that Mr. Karzai lacked both in the power of decision and courage, added the paper.
There is a lot more that happened including Musharraf skipping the meeting with Karzai and their meeting in USA without handshakes.
A strong leader at the top, in Musharraf, was given due respect by Afghanistan as well as India. Currently, we have a dumb and dummy PM, and the de-facto PM Zardari who’s hiding away from all problems. With PPP’s dual-standards on Musharraf, and PML-N’s opposition, Musharraf is not in as strong position as he was or as he should be in order to fire back. Someone has to take up the charge, it is supposed to be PM in a parliamentary system. Someone needs to step up, with the backing of majority to ward off such threats.
No doubt, Musharraf’s leadership qualities are far superior than the so-called awami leaders, who are oblivious to the country’s issue and enjoying their summer break at the government’s expense.
5 comments
Nice one!
It’s an eye-opener, for those who want to open theirs.
Nicely compiled Anas! I sincerely hope Musharraf finds strength from somewhere…
Awesomley done bro!!! Long Live Musharraf!!! thats all i can say
one more thing to support him…i think haven’t he attacked lal masjid and some tribal areas he would still had been the “only” person. what i think musharaf still has the power he is only being overshadowed. lets c what he has his bag