The author of this article ask a questions. How can we claim to be democracy-loving people? tolerance! nothing but tolerance! tolerance! Do Pakistanis have this?

In 1980s, I met a indian punjabi of average education who said "nobody gives domain to anybody else, whoever takes it, have to fight and win it". I looked at his face and said to myself, he is so right and there is no argument on that. When you look at the history of Indian sub-continent and the middle east, past and present and other countries, it's so true. No self written document will change that or will they? I don't think so.

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Very true! A good assessment of present conditions. Allow me to put the record straight. In 1969, Gen Ayub Khan was compelled by the disciple of Mir Sadiq and Mir Jaffer to step down. Power was usurped by then army chief, Gen Yahya Khan who immediately clamped Martial Law on both wings of the country and abrogated the constitution. Ayub Khan in his last radio address to the nation on 25 March 1969, he said, "I cannot preside over the destruction of my country". Thus ended a meaningful, rather stable period of Pakistan history. His tenure is regarded as the "Great Decade", but is vehemently criticized for suppressing democracy and dissolving democratic institutions, to keep the people unaware of the country's policies and politics. Gen Ayub Khan made a blunder of his life by appointing Gen Yahya Khan as C-in-C because he is a debauchee and drunkard. Altaf Gauhar wrote, ?Yahya had led Ayub to believe that the army would put down the agitation, eliminate his political opponents and put him back in power after three months?.