Two indispensible features have all along been lacking in the political landscape of Pakistan. One is selfless, motivated and patriotic leadership. The other is the institution building. The newly born country had fallen prey to the vandals of worst pedigree.
It has been wantonly and relentlessly pillaged financially and crippled institutionally, by self-perpetuating people and rapacious groups that had scant concern or interest in its welfare, stability and its evolution as a modern nation state.
From the dawn of independence, it remained lorded-over by creepy bureaucrats, ravenous feudal classes, insidious dwarf politicians, hypocritical religionists and murderous mafias that kept exacting their pound of flesh throughout. There has always been severe and acute famine of leaders with nobility of character and sublimity of spirit to serve this county for its greatness and glory.
The foundational and structural flaw was its two wings that were poles apart in every manner except the religion. Religion failed as a cohesive and uniting force between Former East Pakistan and the present West Pakistan. The dismemberment of Pakistan was destined to happen sooner or later.
 The egalitarian and democratic spirit of the Bengali nation was a check on the parasitic and fiefdom mentalities of West Pakistan. However, after 1971, when East Pakistan seceded, the left over western part had become an exclusive grazing ground for all exploitative classes and greedy ruffians to turn it into a barren land politically, socially and economically.
The search for a great leader has been elusive so far. It is a dismaying coincidence that the perpetual crises in Pakistan have not produced a leader of sterling integrity and high caliber with powerful intellect, iron will and lofty ideals to lead Pakistan towards a splendid destiny. There have been mediocre, mean-spirited, self-centered, exploitative, oppressive individuals grabbing power by trickery, deceit and ignoble machinations.
The leaders on the whole, were infected with the undying desire of self fortification in the power citadel, loot of national wealth by every conceivable devious means, destroy or dibilatate democratic traditions and nation building institutions.
The political parties and their stalwarts depend more on intrigues and back door maneuvers to dislodge and depose the sitting governments and not by established democratic traditions of fair and free elections. The political anarchy that interminably hovers over Pakistan has been the dirty and loathsome work of the politicians than the army.
The generals always stepped in at the behest of the selfish political cronies or as a result of a totally collapsed system of governance. If politicians would have behaved and adhered to and promoted democracy culture, the army could have never ruled Pakistan for half of its post independence period.
The accumulated mess of six decades has to be cleared by someone or else Pakistan's survival as a viable state is at stake. You name one institution and you would lament that it is dysfunctional due to incompetency, kickbacks, bribery, and lack of funds or malafide intentions not to make it efficient.
The Parliament, Senate, ministries, police, airlines, railways, courts, municipal administrations, industries, presidency, Prime Minister House, education, health, social services, law and order are being run on borrowed time.
The state or national institutions are in a state of complete or near wreck. The worst sufferers are the majority of the people of Pakistan. The elite classes, the aristocracy, the ruling cliques, the big businessmen, and snobbish bureaucarts are immune from the myriad predicaments and day to day tragedies and hardships that a common man encounters.
So let us talk about a unique leader who can address this morbid situation and redeem Pakistan from a colossal drift and national calamity that if remained unchecked could push it towards an irredeemable decay and terminal disintegration.
Such divinely   gifted leaders have appeared in history who changed the destiny of their nations from total collapse to resplendent redemption. Let us indulge in a fanciful utopia, and subjective reckoning and wishful reflection.
Let us ponder that if we have one like Hazrat Omar, Mamun-ur-Rshid of Abbasid dynasty, Salahuddin Ayub of medieval Iraq, Kamal Ataturk of 20th century, Imam Khomeini of Iran, Li Kuan of Singapore, Fidel Castro of Cuba, founding fathers of the United States, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan, De-Gaulle of France, Mau Zedong or Ding Xiaoping of China, Hochi Minh of Vietnam and so on.
Bhutto was a dazzling flash in the chequered and tumultuous history of Pakistan but it extinguished for his own temperamental flaws and by the external forces in league with the local quislings. His achievements are distinctive and excel his failings.
He was a trendsetter but fell victim to the work of local intriguers and the foreign string pullers. On the political horizon of Pakistan there is no other lofty figure (leave the founder of Pakistan) who could be portrayed as a leader of true national stature.
Pakistan needs a radical progressive, reformist, a firebrand, iron willed revolutionary, chivalrous and visionary leader. He should be a leader who is incorruptible, astute and farsighted. He should be the one who can keep his nose to the grindstone and never budge or bend on matters pertaining to national honor, sublime mission for change and reconstruction of Pakistan as a modern, developed state.
He should be the enemy of status quo, of sectarianism, of vested interests, of selfish pressure groups and cartel, corruption, nepotism, feudalism, comprador classes, and the false and exploitative sainthood. He could lay down his life but would not dither nor compromise on his lofty ideals of nation building. He should be a person hating self aggrandizement, wealth, personal galore and glorification, live a simple life and shun ostentation.
He should speak and plead for the masses He should mobilize the downtrodden and intellectuals and intelligentsia for a gubernatorial change. He should stand for consolidation of healthy and efficient institutions, for equality, unalloyed justice and social services for all on equal basis.
Am I asking too much for a leader to rescue this harassed nation from a catastrophic abyss of sufferings? Well if it is a wishful thinking then let it be so. There have been such matchless and legendry leaders who led their nations in the most critical periods and drove them out of the dire straits of untold afflictions and rejuvenated them from the ashes of annihilation. Can this miracle happen in Pakistan too?
The writer is a senior journalist and a former diplomat

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Dear all
This headline appeared in newspapers. "No evidence Pakistan leaders knew where OBL was: US".

'Pakistan leaders' means political leaders. If we read in between the lines it looks like the Americans are telling us that Pak army knew about the whereabouts of OBL Would it be right to say that America is trying to widen the gap between the political leadership and the army hierarchy created after May 2nd action in Abbotabad. The propaganda has already started and gaining strength in print and electronic media. The rift could be disastrous for the integrity of the country.

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Pakistanis are facing economic hardship because of Kashmir dispute and reason we all know that more of the financial budget is going on defence and result is zero plus zero. Over population, illiteracy, poverty and all social problem are because of Kasmir. It is fact that majority of Kashmiry leadership is taking money from both side India and Pakistan. Now this chapter must be closed.
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> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 15:32:34 -0400
> Subject: [Pak-Media] Kashmir: Geelani, Umar, Malik under house arrest
>
> Authorities have placed senior separatist leaders
> including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin
> Malik under house arrest.
>
> The Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was
> scheduled to address a public rally at Hazratbal here, remained under house
> arrest for the third consecutive day today.
>
> "The state government foiled our public rally by keeping Geelani sahib under
> house arrest. He has been kept under house detention since Wednesday
> evening," spokesman of the amalgam, Ayaz Akbar, told Greater Kashmir.
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> Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu and Kashmir
> Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik were also placed under house
> detention this morning.
>
> A spokesman of the Hurriyat (M) said that police cordoned off Mirwaiz's
> Nageen residence this morning and informed him that he cannot venture out.
>
> "All other leaders including Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat, Bilal Gani Lone, Nayeem
> Ahmed Khan, Zaffar Akbar Bhat and Shahid-ul-Islam were also placed under
> house arrest," he said.
>
> He further said that scores of the activists of the conglomerate were also
> detained by police during raids in downtown area of Srinagar.
>
> A JKLF spokesman, condemning the government action, said a large contingent
> of police this morning laid siege around Malik's residence to put him under
> house arrest.
>
> "Malik was scheduled to address a public rally, but it was cancelled after
> he was placed under house arrest. This reflects that dictatorial curbs are
> being imposed on democracy, justice and peaceful struggle. It is being done
> to create graveyard-like silence in Kashmir," he said.
>
> The police also detained Democratic Freedom Party chairman Shabir Ahmed Shah
> last night in Thatri area of Jammu.
>
> A JKLF (R) Spokesman said police arrested its senior vice-chairman Javaid
> Ahmad Mir and Muhammad Shafi Dar, younger brother of Front chairman Farooq
> Ahmad Dar, last night and lodged them in Mahraj Gunj and Shaheed Gunj police
> stations respectively.
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