The New Nation - Internet Edition

Of course, emergency is one of the most unfortunate occurrences in any country. Generally it affects the routine life of people. And at long last President Gen. Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan putting an end to the speculative nature of reports about "democracy" and stopping the saga of turmoil that gripped the country for a pretty long time.

Opposition parties supported by lawyers and some judges, encouraged by the supports from Western "liberal" advices they have been harping upon the removal of Musharraf.

Lavish concerns for Pakistani democracy from across the borders have made these stalwarts to raise the issue of "uniform" to its logical conclusion now. Musharraf has finally lost his patience to clamp emergency.

Indian spokesmen say both USA and India condemn the emergency. The main opposition, the BJP which took birth as a primary consequence of Indian emergency declared in 1970 during the Congress rule and was subsequently used by the Congress to pull down the Grand Babri Mosque in Uttar Pradesh and became a ruling party at the centre, is keen to use the emergency issue to try and create a wedge between USA and Pakistan and pull Washington to the Indian street and says that those who have imposed the emergency for perpetuation of military rule in Pakistan cannot be a reliable ally in the struggle against the so-called "jihadi terrorism".

Along with the global "terror" drive of the imperialistic nations, the anti-Muslim actions by parties like BJP have harmed the life of ordinary Muslims in India.But then they have the tacit support of the State and judiciary, unfortunately.

Musharraf is also the president-elect through democratic procedures according to their constitution, but the judiciary, annoyed with Musharraf's handling of "democracy" took a different view. The anti-Islamic West and others have succeeded in making Pakistan an emergency-clad nation by their ill-advices on "democracy".

Any one who experienced or witnessed the horrid emergency days in India would not support emergency in any pat of the world, but they all would agree that emergency also did its positive role in streamlining Indian politics. Musharraf was in fact quite hesitant to declare it for quite some time, hoping that situation would improve on its own. One hopes that the emergency rule does not make the life of common people worse and, in stead, makes it better. Ordinary Pakistani masses deserve much better than what is provided to them at present. President Musharraf would do yeomen service to his country by enabling the weak common men self-supportive.

Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal

Delhi

Most newspapers in Bangladesh on November 03,2007 prominently published the news of death of the Hiroshima bomber pilot Paul Warfield Tibbet Jr. Tibbet was the commander of the B-29 PLANE (Enola Gay) that dropped the 9,000-pound first atomic bomb(Little Boy) on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 06,1945 killing about140,000 Japanese with many more dying later!

The 92-year old Pilot Tibbet died on Thursday, November 01,2007 at his home in the midwest city of Columbus, Ohio.

As reported in the Press, Tibbet and other members of his mission never expressed any regret of the crime they had committed against the humanity. I wonder how in this modern era, Tibbet and his associates were not put on trial as war criminals for committing one of the greatest crimes against humanity?

Still if they are not put on trial, I strongly feel that the Historians all over the world should record Tibbet and his associates as worst war criminals in the history of mankind!

Professor M Zahidul Haque

Chairman

Department of Language

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University

Dhaka.

Parvez Musharraf, the military President of Pakistan, proclaimed emergency in Pakistan on Friday night, smelling that Supreme Court had prepared a judgment declaring his candidature in the presidential election as ultra-vires and unconstitutional.

By this time, troops have arrested over 100 lawyers and political leaders, sealed the road to Supreme Court while the President dismissed the Chief Justice.

The incident reminds me of the days before Army crackdown in March 1971 to deny Awami League's constitutional right to form government, which ultimately led to the emergence of Bangladesh in the map of the world. The latest development is the beginning of the end of Pakistan (erstwhile West Pakistan) and emergence of four new independent states viz. Punjab, Sind, Beluchistan and North East Frontier Province.

We really feel sorry for the people of former West Pakistan. General Parvez Musharraf has pushed Pakistan into the desert of quick sands wherefrom way out is really a very hard job.

The nation can survive only if there surfaces a leader with the qualities of good physique and wisdom. Plato said, the king must be a philosopher for good governance.

Williams

Banani, Dhaka