No other nation in the history of the entire human race has been subjected to such a focused and unrelenting campaign against its very existence.
Pakistan has been, from the very day of its founding, been at the mercy of parasites and traitors who have sold their souls to the devil and have worked tirelessly to undermine it in every way possible.
Whether it was the Chief Ministership of Dr Khan Sahib in NWFP in 1947 which deliberately tried to undermine the will of the people of the province or the tenure of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as the Foreign Minister, Leader of the PPP in 1970-71, President and Prime Minister. He left no stone unturned in damaging Pakistan for his own personal ambitions. From masterminding the botched Operation Gibraltar, to the Tashkent Agreement, from sowing the seeds of 'udhar tum idhar ham' in 1970-71 to nationalising the economy, from giving political space to the mullahs to continuing a policy of repression against the Urdu-speaking (Muhajir) community.
Even the Bangladesh whose progress these 'intellectuals' like to harp about was not born out of any noble struggle of independence. It was carved from the womb of another country by a band of traitorous military and political leaders who were moral deviants to say the least.
Then coming to the 80s and 90s, the sons of the establishment-turned pawns of foreign powers - Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and all their cronies ran this country into the ground. In the 2000s, Musharraf with his dreams of 'enlightened moderation', a government of crooks (Zardari and the likes) and finally, the last plunder of the Sharifs.
For the first time since the Quaid and Liaqat, we now have a leader who can plunge his hands into the filth and clean up these parasites. Let us give him a chance.
It is very easy for pessimists like Hoodbhoy to rant and give impractical suggestions. Its not a surprise that the entire lobby of 'thinkers' like him never provide any meaningful suggestions. They just wail about how bad everything is - a fact which betrays their real intentions.