State failure

THE Pakistani State, its political elite and its institutions have failed to discharge their constitutional obligation to protect and guard its territorial integrity, defeat nefarious designs of foreign governments for destabilising it from within with aid of abettors and facilitators. In 1919 after WW1, UK and its allies embarked upon process of redrawing geographical boundaries of all existing Muslim majority countries and are now in a similar exercise to achieve their global strategic objectives.

The fact that UK government has not taken any action against their national Altaf Hussain, who resides in London, for his hate speech, inciting violence in Pakistan which resulted in death of one innocent Pakistani in Karachi and injuries to scores of others leaves no doubt that all this is being done with their blessing. His telephonic speech inciting violence and spitting venom and hate against a sovereign country, while addressing his loyalists in America has also gone un-noticed.

There are numerous Security Council resolutions and laws within UK and USA etc where such incitement to violence is a crime.

The political opposition and few anchors in electronic media asking for extradition of Altaf Hussain or charging him under Article 6, knowing that he is a British citizen, are either playing politics or incompetent. Pakistan as a sovereign country can legislate laws immediately through Presidential Ordinance banning any individual who holds a foreign passport or has sought political asylum, or any other permanent residential status, except on official duty, to head any political party, group or NGO involved in politics of any sort, nor should he be allowed to hold any public office, either paid or elected in Pakistan nor represent this country at any forum. The question is why this is not being done, and why is the opposition not demanding this? MALIK TARIQ ALI

Lahore