If I were a referee in this match between two champions, Rafi Aamer Sahib and Javed Chaudry Sahib, my job would be quite easy. I know who exactly the winner is.

But that's not the reason for this letter. The reason is the inspiration from this match. Like many other discussions that took place in this forum in the past, and many other discussions in other forums, most intellectuals, get bogged down in theories, sciences, social matters, histories, analyses', philosophies by this author and that author. But almost always we, not deliberately, ignore a very basic fundamental truth. That TRUTH is the basic human character, which differs from one place to another. Such differences are remarkably substantial. Therefore, I conclude
that the holy books notwithstanding, NOT ALL HUMANS ARE EQUAL. Therefore, their conduct is not the same or equal. I'm quite sure that this conclusion is not exclusive to me. Humans are not equal physically, emotionally, socially, intellectually, morally, democratically, health wise, and so on. Therefore, our actions, our hopes, our thoughts, our visions, our philosophies must be different. How come we ignore this simple fact is so badly?

Humans are easily fooled, and trainable. Bad propaganda and bad education has succeeded in making us believe what the guys upstairs preach. Democracy is no exception. Fancy speeches can make dictatorships look like democracy, and democracy look like dictatorship. We accept things eyes closed.

Our discussions almost always seem to assume that all humans must be capable of adopting same behaviour, political, economical, democratic, religious, what ever. My observation shows that this does not happen in the world. Therefore, the above
conclusion.

Pakistan is not fit for the so-called democracy. At least, not in the fore-seeable future. The democracy tree has not been planted yet, as pointed out by Dr. M. Ahsan Khan Sahib. In fact, I believe that humans are not fit for democracy. Some one might ask me what is democracy to me? We can discuss that another time.

For Pakistan, Uncle Sam is the least one to be blamed. We ourselves must be the first one to be blamed. Until when shall we keep holding others responsible for our mistakes?

When Mr. Musharraf imposed the "second martial law", with some exceptions, we all protested. I am that exception. In-spite of my strong dislike for army rule, I believe that he is the least of the evils. Is he dictator? Yes, he is. Who in the world is not? If we must pick on dictators, then we must point fingers at all of them, including the "greatest democracies" on the earth. Have not those who are screaming democracy, democracy, seen who will be next in Pakistan? Is she takes control, then we will be relieved from at least one headache in life. That headache
is Pakistan.


Sincerely

Jawaid Chaudhry [Virk]