Out with a dictator, in with an emperor

Pakistan has laughably simple politics. While there is a lot of skulduggery going on in the background, the governing rule is that the flavor of the day, whether an army dictator or elected emperor, is going to do whatever it takes to maintain his iron clad grip on the peacock throne.

In a democracy, you need a functioning independent judicial system. A functioning judiciary will take action to right wrongs as per the law, and that's where the problem lies in Pakistan. Whether elected or brought up through the army ranks, the leader of the country is always on the wrong side of the law, and thus a functioning judiciary is impossible.

The judiciary in Pakistan was hanged by Musharraf back in March 2007, and Zardari is exhuming the corpse and sending it before a firing squad to ensure it doesn't come back to haunt him. In a slight change from the Moguls of old, instead of only killing their entire family to ensure there is no challenger to the throne, these days all and sundry are targeted.

Zardari has made numerous promises over the last year to restore the judges, and recently he was asked on TV why he was not honoring his word to do so. His famous reply: "That was a political promise. It has nothing to do with reality".

Time will tell how naked the emperor really is, in this case just a measly 4 days till May 12th, when yet another deadline is due to restore the judges illegally deposed by the old dictator.

Reading in Karachi

Adil Najam wonders if Pakistani's read? and links to a fascinating article in the newspaper on the number of libraries in Pakistan.

Lahore, an ancient city of culture, now has more polo grounds than libraries. Lahore even has more offices for the chief minister (four in all) than libraries. Of course, the Chief Minister needs office space more than our children need libraries.

He hasn't visited Karachi, where far as I know there are no public libraries at all. There is this interesting library run by the Army where you need to be a millionaire in order to join - they require you to first buy a plot of land in a army run housing scheme before borrowing books!

Lack of cities aside, Karachi is a tough city to read books. The average new book price is a 1000Rs, and while used books are much cheaper the selection is really limited. Ordering from Amazon is a hit and miss process - if you order by DHL or UPS the books always arrive, but the shipping costs are so high that it's not worth while, and sometimes they charge duties on books. If you order by regular post, than the books get stolen sometimes, and it takes anywhere from 1 month to a year for the carton to arrive. The locally published books are also very expensive, and there just isn't enough variety.

Parliament Watch - What do MNA's and Senators do?

My MNA has a name, but I have no idea what she stands for, what she does, and how is it that she came to be standing for elections. Now, I can find out what his/her name is, but beyond that there is absolutely no information at all. Come election time, just a month or two before voting takes place candidates suddenly appear from nowhere running for election, and provide zero information about themselves in their entire campaign. What did the MNA accomplish in his/her last stint in office? What about their tax returns, their life, their positions on important issues (besides the rhetoric)?

Pakistan, Egalitarian

Pakistan is turning out to be a very egalitarian society. Some of the new crop of politicians come from very humble beginnings, indeed. Sure, not all of them started out humble, but all of them have improved in leaps and bounds from their starting point. Not too many countries can boast of that, so here is a listing of our extremely egalitarian politicians:

A tale of two Chief Justices

...the new PPP government would feel more comfortable with the present Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar instead of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

Translation: Dogar is a priceable commodity, bought and sold as needed by the powers that be. Earlier, he worked for Benazir, than switched to Musharraf, and now that Zardari is the new king of Pakistan, Dogar is busy licking his boots. From his track record, Dogar is not so much a judge, but a trader, better suited to a pan shop than the Supreme Court.

The actual Chief Justice, who was just freed from an illegal arrest, is a bonafide judge. Despite every single intelligence agency in Pakistan desperately trying to dig up dirt on him, they have failed to find anything wrong with his tenure as Chief Justice. That in itself is an amazing thing, in a country where all hands are dirty.

Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons

The book traces Pakistan's nuclear history, wherein Pakistan with Chinese, Saudi, American and North Korean help (and a whole lot of private contractors) developed numerous types of nuclear weapons and delivery systems.

The book is really interesting, not because of the exact details of how Pakistan developed the bomb, but the insight it gives on how Pakistan really operates. It was Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who kicked of Pakistan's nuclear programme, famously declaring "we will eat grass if we have to, but we will make the bomb". For the next 20 years this statement was literally and figuratively true - everything took a backseat was tens of billions of dollars were poured into two competing nuclear labs.

This is the most depressing account of Pakistani/American political history I've read. The old maxim "the end justifies the means" was the one and only motto of the Pakistan Army & the Republican Party, which ran the country for the next 30 years, sucking in practically every dollar of foreign aid and diverting it to nuclear weapons development and regular arms procurement. They had to let parts of the billions of dollars pouring in for the Afghan war though, under American pressure, but development aid money was mostly fully diverted to the bomb.

Of Judges and Hope

The current fight for the restoration of the judiciary is the single most important issue for Pakistan in my lifetime, perhaps in Pakistan's entire existence.

Pakistan has always had only two pillars of state - the army and the politicians. In a functioning democracy, you have three pillars - the executive, legislative and the judiciary. While we will not be heading towards the regular mode of democracy any time soon, it looks like the restoration of the judges fired by the outgoing dictator will empower them all the way to the third pillar of state.

Everyone was right, the elections were rigged

Everyone I've spoken to, most newspaper reports, international observers, everything points to the fact that rigging did took place.

The outgoing government tried every dirty trick in the proverbial book to hang onto power - but the wonderfully heartening news is that the rigging wasn't enough - the government still got kicked out.

The story which is emerging is the age old one, that of the naked Emperor who fools himself into thinking he's clothed, while the whole world laughs. The dictator was naked, and like the emperor of old, surrounded by tailors and yes man who wouldn't tell the truth.

In other news, the government is busy trying to censor videos of rigging uploaded to Youtube, which show the the government parties busy rigging away. I wrote up my own personal brush with censorship here, and now it seems the govt. has moved on from targeting individual websites to the Moby Dick of the internet, Youtube.

The King's party loses, we were all wrong about the rigging

It seems like every single political commentator (which these days is most of Pakistan) was wrong about the elections being heavily rigged.

To be fair, there was a massive and transparent attempt at rigging by the outgoing government, and it would have been enough if the results had been closer - but the difference is so vast in the actual polling results that the rigging was just not enough! Now, if this was Florida where the state was evenly divided, a little bit of rigging would have done the job, as we saw in the US - but Musharraf's party underestimated the extent to which they are disliked.

Elections are messy in Pakistan - all the parties try to rig the elections in their favour, it's just that they employ cruder methods than in more developed countries. It seems like everyone was rigging, but it seems to have canceled itself out.

One really big change, which no had predicted, let along even thought of, is the level of interest people took in the elections this time. Sure, turnout was low, but many 'regular' people volunteered for election watch duty, and besides that, I've heard from many polling stations that people just randomly turned up to keep an eye on things, armed with cellphone cameras and the numbers of the local media. Yes, there were a few hundred foreign observers, but there are just too many polling stations - it was the observing of the many thousands of Pakistani's who just turned up to observe which was key.

I didn't volunteer for elections watch, but the three hours I spent trying to vote I kept snapping pictures of the process - and no one said anything. This in itself is a sea change in Pakistan - just the last elections if you tried to do that you would be beaten up, the camera smashed, and worse.

My voting experience in the 2008 elections

I haven't written about the ongoing elections in Pakistan, because the whole thing is a bad joke. First. the making of the electoral lists was outsourced to Canada to someone who runs a dating service, and they came up with a atrociously bad system.

Secondly, without a functioning judiciary, you can't have elections - it makes it too easy for the govt. to rig them. It's a simple matter of self-interest - the govt. is running the elections, and wants to get elected - so it's blatantly using the entire apparatus of the state to ensure it wins.

The voting lists turned out to be as bad as I thought it would - in fact they turned out to be even worse, despite my low expectations. The elections website is completely unusable, and missing a lot of names which were there on the old list. For example, it's missing the names of my family and many of my relatives - most of which are registered voters.

Despite our name not being on the list, I still set out to vote - I spent 3 hours going to all the voting stations near my area, and I wasn't registered in any of them. I met quite a few people I know, and over 50% of them weren't on the lists - so we came back vote less.

The Undercover Economist

This is the book which every Pakistani politician, columnist, drawing room warrior, TV talking head, the proverbial man on the street, newspaper & TV reporter, and just about everyone else breathing on the streets of Pakistan should read, now, before it's too late.

The lack of economic knowledge, and the number of economic things people get wrong even, even Harvard and Oxford educated politicians, is amazing. Newspapers, and TV especially perpetuates many economic myths and fallacies, and often make doom-laden statements which make no sense - though with our politicians it can be (and has been) said that they make no sense on anything at all, at least if you're viewing it from a logical point of view. This book cuts through all that nonsense and lay's bare the economic workings of much that we see going on around us.

For example, just today there is a report in the paper about how 6 major bridges are about to collapse in Karachi as the City government can't be bothered to fix them - the poor reporter rails and rants trying to figure out why this is the case - he/she will really benefit from reading this book.

The chapter on "Why Poor Countries are Poor" is a good explanation of how Pakistan works - though a lot of Pakistani's understand innately as to why we are where we are, Tim Harford logically lays it out, and the heuristics built up over years of dealing with bureaucracy and corruption make even more sense.

There are many other 'readable' books on economics being written today, but this book really stands out.

This website censored and blocked by the Pakistan Govt

Once again, Murphy the govt. of Pakistan strikes.

I had written earlier on how internet censorship works in Pakistan, and it's useful as a reference.

Keeping this eventuality in mind (this is the second time it's happened now), all my websites are hosted outside Pakistan, so it's only within Pakistan is there a problem accessing them.

There's a discussion at the Wiredpakistan.com forums about the censorship.

Under the recently passed Cyber Crime ordinance, any website, computer, telephone, or just about anything else invented after the Stone Age can be seized without any warrant, and no questions can be asked.

For example, I've heard from PTA that this website is now blocked - one of their emails is quoted below - and legally speaking I can't even ask them why and what for they took this step. Though, of course, I've shot them off an email asking them to explain.

Elections are coming, and as the day approaches, Govt. preparation is getting frantic.

Only 3pc businesses, industry paid taxes in 2007

Dawn reports the taxation percentage every year, and each time its shocking:

Out of the 45,000 industrial and commercial units registered in Pakistan, only 1,352 major units contributed 94.1 per cent of the total tax collection this year, says the Federal Board of Revenue.

That is pretty amazing.They might as well not bother collecting taxes from anyone outside these super tax paying 1,352 companies. All the FBR needs is 1352 employees, one for each company, and a couple of outside auditors.

Billions would be saved by firing the tens of thousands of redundant staff, and without having to deal with the tax bogeyman entrepreneurship and small business in Pakistan would soar.

The Pakistani boomerang on the backward swing

[...] It apparently seemed like a good idea in the 1990s for the ISI to back militants as a proxy force to compete with India in Kashmir and to exert influence in neighboring Afghanistan. (The United States contributed to the problem in the 1980s when it also funneled funds through ISI to militants fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan.) Now it is a grave threat to Pakistan. The insurgency recently has begun spilling out of the lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border and into the city of Peshawar.

The real inside story of the US funding of the Afghan war is here.

[...] The Times also reported that the ISI manipulated Pakistan's last national election. Many Pakistanis already suspected as much and fear it could be repeated in the Feb. 18 parliamentary vote. The only way for Mr. Musharraf to regain any credibility is by ensuring that the election is free and fair.

We had fake elections? Someone tell Bush...

Jailed activists must be released. Ousted judges must be restored. Journalists must be able to report freely. International monitors must have maximum access to assess the voting. And Mr. Musharraf must work cooperatively with whatever leaders the election produces. The signs aren't encouraging. Instead, ever more paranoid, he directed his staff to develop a strategy for countering "Western propaganda." He's his own worst enemy and increasingly Pakistan's as well.

The New York Times, of course, is one of the key reasons we have such problems in Pakistan, according to no less a authority on propaganda than Musharraf himself. He is well known to not read or even meet people critical of anything he does, so he's lucky that Bush too doesn't read the Times (or any other newspaper, for that matter).

Next Gen Taliban

Yet another reporter has been kicked out of Pakistan for revealing the oh-so-secret fact that we have Taliban running around unchecked.

Which begs the question, what about all the Pakistani reporters and TV channels who report the same thing? Intimidation, censorship and blackmail seems to be in these days, considering that despite all that is going on in Pakistan there is hardly anything which could be called investigative journalism in the Pakistani press.

The interesting thing is that there really doesn't seem to a reason to deport this fellow - but given that the Emperor is naked, even mild barbs tipped with the hard sting of reality hurt.

There is so much fear, uncertainty and doubt about the emergence, power, goals and actual reach of the 'next-gen' Taliban rising up in Pakistan, that any journalist willing to risk life and limb reporting about them is to be applauded, not deported.

The most important man in Pakistan, circa 2008

The world has already started publishing profiles of General Kayani - here is a recent one from the New York Times

The parties already accuse Mr. Musharraf -- who is widely unpopular according to public opinion polls -- of fixing the elections. If demonstrations erupt, General Kayani will have to decide whether to suppress them.

What General Kayani decides will determine who rules Pakistan, according to Pakistani and American analysts. The decision also could affect whether the country descends into even deeper turmoil.

What will he do? Will he, or won't he?

In most countries the newspapers print profiles of their political leaders. In Pakistan, the most read profiles are those of our generals. In fact, the newspapers don't even bother writing much about most of our elected officials, including those in very high up posts like the Chief Ministers of the provinces, or the many MNA's and Senators. At the most there are short opinion pieces about a few of them, never an actual profile.

Pakistan electoral rigging outsourced to Montreal

News straight out of Orwell's 1984:

To deny hackers any chance of destroying Pakistan's already tumultuous parliamentary elections, lists with the names of all 80 million eligible Pakistani voters in the Feb. 18 election are being stored behind firewalls on a secure computer system in Canada.

In other news, there is no internet. Really. Otherwise why the hell does it matter whether the lists are in Kathmundu or stored in a server in Alaska?

"It's a completely locked system," said Hayee Bokhari, owner and president of Cronomagic Canada Inc., whose workers stayed at the company's offices in Montreal over Christmas to complete the biggest Pakistani database every assembled.

There is no such thing as a "completely locked system", especially one on the internet. That is one obvious sign there is something fishy here, besides the fact that Pakistan has been pending elections for months now, and they're still having to "work over christmas"! Big statements like "biggest Pakistani database ever assembled" are also total bullshit.

Benazir around the web

A roundup of some of the commentary on Benazir Bhutto.

The short version - tragic, and it speeds up Pakistan's descent into chaos and violence, but she was no fairy princess. In hindsight, perhaps she wasn't as bad as her enemies would portray her, but she's nowhere close to the shining princess of democracy which some newspaper obituaries and american senators are making her out to be.

Robert Fisk: They don't blame al-Qaida. They blame Musharraf

Robert Fisk gets the Pakistani mood:

So let's run through this logic in the way that Inspector Ian Blair might have done in his policeman's notebook before he became the top cop in London.

Question: Who forced Benazir Bhutto to stay in London and tried to prevent her return to Pakistan? Answer: General Musharraf.

Question: Who ordered the arrest of thousands of Benazir's supporters this month? Answer: General Musharraf.

Question: Who placed Benazir under temporary house arrest this month? Answer: General Musharraf.

Question: Who declared martial law this month? Answer General Musharraf.

Question: who killed Benazir Bhutto?

Er. Yes. Well quite.

You see the problem? Yesterday, our television warriors informed us the PPP members shouting that Musharraf was a "murderer" were complaining he had not provided sufficient security for Benazir. Wrong. They were shouting this because they believe he killed her.

Link via http://www.teeth.com.pk/blog/

There are many discrepancies in the official statements which makes most of the country sure there was some government involvement in the murder - from washing down the crime scene, to not conducting an autopsy, which is mandatory in a criminal investigation of a murder, even in Pakistan. Of course, since Musharraf fired all the competent judges, there aren't any left to see that the law is followed.

Benazir killed

Pakistan was already in the midst of a dark age, but darker days are ahead - Benazir Bhutto was killed today.

• Wikipedia entry on Benazir Bhutto
• Technorati search for Benazir
• ATP post on the assassination

There is not much worse which could have happened in Pakistan. Conspiracy theories are already on the prowl...

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