Wikileakes And Pakistan

Wikileaks has created Two common school of thoughts to the revelations of it. One is, they reveal nothing really new. second, they do not expose the complexity behind policy choices. For instance, everybody knows that our leaders are corrupt and give an impact of bad governess all over the world, and have no strategy in future for the betterment of Pakistan. They are doing leg pulling to other politicians instead of proving good governance. But now we came to know that this has been shared by our benefactors who deal with them closely and know them personally and have approach to the piece of information that we don’t have.

In the same way similarly its and open truth that the government is not guilty to lie to parliament on the most important issues that relates to the security, dignity, independence and sovereignty of the country. But then according to I F Stone “all governments lie.” Moreover, Wikileaks came over with information on what international leaders think of our leaders and what policies they had been adopting since the eras of different political leaders. They do not cover other aspects of policies that are a product of very complex circumstances.

The above reactions would be no bother what if Pakistan was a normal country. In every state, political leaders sometimes discusses the matters and issues in private and they would not like to be made them public among the people. If you Recall western political leaders caught saying things when they did not realise microphones had not been turned off – like Bush speaking to Blair scornfully or Gordon Brown expressing his frustration with an elderly lady Labour citizen who disagreed with him. They certainly discomfit the leader concerned and provide grist to the mills of the media and his opponents for a while, but are of no lasting meaning. The latest Wikileaks also contains interesting views of envoys about the heads and senior ministers of their host governments.