Distorted hierarchy
of political values claimed Benazir
Dear Editor,
Martyrdom offered by Benazir for political values is not the first by a
politician or even by a lady but the type and amount of nauseating
indignation and grief it has aroused not only in Pakistan but across the
world is mainly due to widespread perception that USA & its democratic
allies were the driving force behind her return from her eight-year exile to
implant absolute democracy (republic) in Pakistan.
Pakistan all along has been practicing and still prepared to practice
diarchy (having pro-active President, elected or otherwise, with
jurisdictions of martial affairs like defense, internal security, human
rights, foreign affairs, consent to legislation etc. along with elected
Prime Minister and Chief Ministers having jurisdictions of all the civil
affairs of Pakistan).
This cold blooded unethical obstinacy of USA & its democratic allies and
dereliction and hypocrisy of Pakistan's friend and neighbor China regarding
stopping USA & its democratic allies from such dangerously Machiavellian
manipulations (especially in view of the fact that China, a veto holding
power of UN and thus its promoter and permanent member, is itself not
practicing democracy) coupled with the pervasive 'anti-Americanism'
especially within fundamentalist terrorists of Pakistan, had already put
Benazir's life in great danger of which first proof and last warning had
already come through October blast claiming about 100 lives on her arrival
in Pakistan.
In contemporary world UN is supposed to take this responsibility to uphold
and protect human values by enforcing
human rights even by intervening militarily (with or without the
US
agreeing with it) in member counties who audaciously deny these human rights
to its citizens.
But the USA & its democratic allies have spread mis-information through UN
(of which India is also a victim) that State can be complete & effective
even without assigning pre-eminent role to martial forces of the member
States of UN.
The world community does not realize that it is precisely the supremacy of
martial element of any State in the services of ensuring human rights, which
is the only valid and relevant political philosophy of the contemporary
world especially in this age of globalization.
These distorted political values of UN (where it condones absolute
democracy, pressed by its powerful members like USA & its democratic allies, over human rights)
are less due to belief of USA & its democratic allies about
the efficacy of absolute democracy in solving myriad problems of the
mankind. It is more due to the fear of USA & its democratic allies to allow
UN to intervene militarily in member counties lest it may open these
countries also to UN's military intervention in case of human right
violations by these counties (which are not uncommon in these counties
also).
Let us hope that UN will rise to the occasion and will not (along with UK)
confine itself merely to the investigation of the assassination of Benazir
as demanded during Sunday's press conference by Zardari (husband of Benazir
Bhutto and co-chairman of her political party PPP) and reportedly consented
by President Musharraf.
The least we can expects from UN is that its General Assembly will be
summoned immediately and the hierarchy of political values of human rights
(with proper mechanism to enforce human rights in its member states by UN)
over all forms of governance (democratic republic, diarchy, military rule,
communism etc.) will be declared and resolved to be enforced by UN.
This is the only way to ensure that the martyrdom of Benazir will not go in
vain.
Yours sincerely
Hem Raj Jain,
New Delhi, India.
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