There have been many negative happenings in recent times in Pakistan. These have included high profile bombings, killings and kidnappings. On top of these, Pakistan's dear friends have time and again attacked us with drones, issued dire warnings and negative statements. Pakistan's dear friends have done their best to make things worst for Pakistan and Pakistanis. United Kingdom has recently arrested 12 Pakistani students, most of whom are totally innocent. This shows how good western intelligence is on their own soil, where they have 24-hour CCTV and total control over all kinds of communications. The students were arrested from universities and not from Pakistan's totally unregulated tribal areas.
Coming back to Pakistan, we have had a major revolution when government had to bow to people's demand and restore independent judiciary. The democratic also successfully negotiated with militants through moderate elements and reached an agreement to establish rule of law. This is a major victory for government and people of Pakistan, because it takes away political initiative from extremists and terrorists. Now terrorists have no where to hide, and no excuses to sell to ordinary, disoriented or poor masses. This would ensure that politicians, army , clergy and the people can together face extremism from one platform as one people.
President of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and ANP govt have acted wisely in negotiating this agreement. President of Pakistan did extremely well to get approval of parliament(national assembly) which ensures that whole of Pakistan is behind this agreement and thus world pressure can be ignored on the strength of will of the people.
Mr. Asif Ali Zardari had been extremely reluctant in restoring judiciary, and that impacted his popularity ratings very badly. However, since bowing to people of Pakistan and restoration of judiciary he has acted wisely. He first encouraged/allowed negotiated settlement of Swat conflict, and then created grounds for signing it.
Asif Zardari who was a bad boy and loser couple of days ago, is now definitely back in the political arena. However, he would have to do a lot in terms of improving his party's and its allies governance and take several other difficult but popular decisions. This may include ending drone attacks which is not going to be easy.
However, it is easy to see that with independent judiciary, an independent parliament, free media, and dynamic society led by lawyers, we are well set for a great future.
