Blaming the Founding Fathers for Our Mistakes: Case of Pakistan

[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions]
In the cozy environment of our drawing rooms, we often see the self styled intellectuals belong to the ilk of Hasan Nisar trying their best to put the blame of shortcomings of our nation on to our founding fathers. The venom in their opinions indicates their disdain for this nation and the founding principles. They lose no opportunity to take snipe at the founding fathers including Quaid e Azam and Allama Iqbal to vent their frustrations when the nation seems to climb out of impossibly discouraging situations.

It is interesting to note that they try to put the blame of all our shortcomings on the founding fathers including the problems that exacerbated during the martial law regimes leading to breakdown of law and constitution, increase in frustrations of the minorities eventually resulting in the separation of half the country when East Pakistan seceded as Bangladesh.

Blaming the father for the mess that a son creates can be compared to the behavior of a son whose father had presented him with a Mercedes and through his reckless driving rams it into the pole, and then start blaming the father for why he had presented him the car in the first place. Recklessness of Martial Laws and Dictator Generals have thrown us in a mess from which getting out is a huge undertaking. The last thing we want is to start blaming our founding fathers for the mess that we created. How can we blame our founding father for the following mess?

• Costs of Military Dictatorships in Pakistan
• Costs of Justice Munir’s Disastrous Doctrine of Necessity
• Costs of General Zia’s Dictatorship in Pakistan
• Costs of Sham Democratic Regimes in Pakistan
• Why Pakistani Democracies have been a Sham?
• Costs of General Musharraf’s Dictatorship
• Costs of General Ayub’s Dictatorship

The abdication of responsibilities by the state in the areas of education, health, sanitation, drinking water, energy, transport became increasingly evident over the last forty years resulting in the breakdown of law and order, increase in terrorism and loss of hope among the masses.

The situation has tremendously improved since the resumption of democracy after the end of martial law by the 5th General savior on horseback. This can be seen by the improvement in many areas over the last five years. This improvement is not getting digested by the vested interests and the foreign enemies who are trying their best to return the country to its classification as a failed state.

Pakistan History 101: Costs of Regimes of Spoiled Brats

• Are Generals Qualified to Make Long Term Strategy: Costs of Strategic Failures of Military Dictators
• Whither Writ of the State? Costs of Corruption and Nepotism in Today’s Rangeela Shahi Daur
• At What Cost! Fazle Hasan of IBA and our Computation of Economic Costs
• Costs of General Zia’s Dictatorship in Pakistan
• Costs of Sham Democratic Regimes in Pakistan
• Why Pakistani Democracies have been a Sham?
• Costs of General Musharraf’s Dictatorship
• Costs of General Ayub’s Dictatorship
• Costs of Military Dictatorships in Pakistan
• Costs of Justice Munir’s Disastrous Doctrine of Necessity
• Traitors/Foreign Agents Production Factory of Pakistan: Costs of Branding Pakistani Politicians as Foreign Agents.
•  Political Will/Resolve of Civilian Governments vs Military Dictators. A Case Study of Karachi Disturbances and Relationships with MQM. 
• Get Pakistan out of this quagmire: Economic Cost of War on Terror for Pakistan
• Anti-National Language Policy leads to Rule by Rich and Corrupt Elites