The tides are turning

And we all thought it would be the politicians who'll take the case forward. The lawyers notwithstanding, now the doctors have something to cheer about.. They have joined in, The silent majority is no longer silent. Pakistan, once known as a land of doctors and engineers has finally burst forth with its brightest sons challenging the social (dis)order on fronts they were hitherto reluctant to test their intellectual prowess on. The civil society is mobilised like never before. For the last few decades we had been used to seeing just political workers who had nothing to lose, as the most vocal section of society when it came to politics. Politics and governance were issues best left to the "specialists". The others could simply sit back and watch as the orchestarators of Pakistan's political scene played their acts with these dissenters being struck down whenever they raised their heads.

Now Pakistanis can feel the stakes in question. Now, they ahve something to lose. The control that they have just regained over their lives (in a collective sense) is too precious too be lost in the traditional apathy that has become a norm for the general society in Pakistan. Today, probably more than ever before, barring the wartimes, pakistanis from all sections of society are owning Pakistan. It is a feeling of patriotism that does not hinge on the self-appointed leaders and their proclaimed notions of self interest. This has to do with the individual in every Pakistani and his relation to a collective society and that is why everyone is so serious about democracy this time. people are relating to the political figures and see in military governance, a perversion, an utter distortion of civil norms.

So kudos to Dr. Anwar-ul Haq. He has taken the lead. Democracy waits for the rest of us to demand it. Today very difficult it will be to turn down the bellicose order.

Good Luck Pakistan. These doctors, lawyers, rairiwallahs, drivers, traders, political workers, journalists (writers :) ); nah we make you today. We turn the tides.