UN Resolution against Drones - And the Jingoism

The UN General Assembly passed a unanimous resolution against the drones on Wednesday December 18, 2013. It clarifies one thing for sure that there is a government in Islamabad today that knows what it is doing and how things must be done in the modern civilized world. While the jokers of Pakistan politics continue to play their “Dhandhli and Dharna”, the PMLN government has convinced the world, working on a diplomatic level, that drones are a threat to peace and are counter-productive in the quest for curbing the terrorism.

It is a successive victory of Pakistan at diplomatic front during the last two weeks. Earlier this month European Union awarded Pakistan with the GSP+ status and now the success in the UN on the issue of drones against the will of the all-powerful United States is an achievement that deserves applause. It also signifies the efficiency and effectiveness of this government that launched a potent diplomatic offensive at the international level to win two of the long-awaited battles at the diplomatic level on two of the most prestigious forums of the world.

“Trade – not Aid” was an election slogan of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and from the day that PMLN took over the government in Pakistan, it has been working tirelessly on this mission. The deals with Turkey and China earlier this year and now the GSP+ status are examples of the seriousness of the government in this regard. It is a fact that terrorism is one of the major hurdles in the way of economic boom in Pakistan and the PMLN’s efforts in this regard can also not be undermined at all. They, after coming into power, immediately called an All Parties Conference but it couldn’t be held unfortunately because of some “extremely important elephants that needed to be saved” in London. 

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However, the APC was convened a few weeks later and it was decided that the government will hold talks with the Taliban. Unfortunately, a drone strike that killed Hakimullah Mehsud stalled the process and we went back to square one.

 

It was a huge set back to the peace process but the government didn’t lose hope despite the jingoism of the opposition parties, mainly one overly excited about the drones i.e. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. It is strange that while the Imran Khan led PTI was holding their other favorite “Dha” i.e Dharna (first is Dhandhli), the PMLN government was doing what it actually should have done about drones. It was continuously engaged on all forums taking up the matter of drones and was engaging other countries in its pursuit for ending this menace. As a result, it was able to carve out support from all quarters of the world and a resolution was passed unanimously by all the countries in the United Nations.

Funny it is that the government is, for the first time in the last fourteen years, doing the right things in this War on Terror and the opposition is still on the same path of confrontation. PMLN was time and again accused of being a friendly opposition in the previous tenure to the Pakistan People’s Party government but it never resorted to useless criticism in order to wash this stain away. It kept supporting the right moves by the government and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the then Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, always remained highly critical of the government’s inability and corruption, thus maintained a balance. Every time he spoke, he had something very important to say and never once faltered in his long speeches; never said a word that was irrelevant or baseless. Contrary to what we saw during the previous government, the opposition today has been crying hoarse since day one over the alleged rigging in the Elections. They have never come up with anything significant that could be either presenting a bill, point towards some mistake committed by the government or even discussing a certain act.

Yes, but they have done one thing with all the valour and devotion in the world and that is “condemnation” - Condemnation of anything and everything that any of their opponents ever did. It is rightly asked if Shirien Mazari, the Secretary Information of PTI, is actually the Secretary for Information or she is the Secretary for Condemnation in her party. Imran Khan constantly kept asking for end to drones and the government was also doing the same but in a different manner. While he was staging sit-ins, the government was being a little sensible in its approach and was able to win support of the world in the United Nations.

But old habits are seldom forgotten. The opposition was totally unaware of what the government was doing in this regard which clearly indicates that there is hardly a working relationship between the government and the opposition and also indicates towards the lack of interest of PTI in the national issues. Some lady named Anila Khawaja who runs Imran Khan’s twitter handle was so ill-informed that despite several stories published in the national dailies about the government’s expedition for getting a resolution passed in the UN General Assembly unanimously against the drones, she was stupid enough to tweet from @ImranKhanPTI (that is Imran Khan’s official Twitter handle by the way) that even the UN was passing resolutions against drones but the government of Pakistan was not taking a clear stance.

Doesn’t it put on display the lack of maturity of these good for nothing losers? Yes it does, but, in my well-considered (not humble at all) opinion, it is not because they didn’t know about it. They knew about it but they were being led by nature. As the saying goes, habits can change but nature doesn’t. They were yet again playing the same old game that was on display in this image that I posted around a year ago on this very blog.

While I praise the government for their effectively taking this matter up on all the relevant forums of the world through aggressive diplomacy, I call for an end to nuisance by the maniacs in the PTI who believe that they have a monopoly over everything good happening in any part of the globe.

No. It was not Imran Khan whose useless Dharna and Dhandhli mantra did nothing to let the world know of Pakistan’s stance on the drones. It was actually Nawaz Sharif’s and his team’s brilliant diplomacy that brought the world to our stance. It is time for the PTI to stop staging these worthless sit-ins and start working. Their planned sit-in in Lahore is certainly not going to end the inflation in Peshawar that, by the way, is highest among all four provincial capitals of Pakistan according to the stats revealed by the State Bank of Pakistan for the month of November.