On Saturday night, I went to bed early as I was quite tired from my hectic routine knowing that tonight the fate of PM Khan would be decided as he had lost the majority in parliament following horse-trading by the opposition. I woke at midnight and checked my mobile. PM was gone. The thought that occupied my mind the next moment was Manto’s letters to Uncle Sam, the national personification of America. I was stunned how Manto blew the whistle on the American role in the third world countries many years ago and his critique of its imperialist policies is still relevant if we read his letters again, especially after the recent US-backed regime change in Pakistan. In his third letter, Manto says in symbolic terms that Pakistan is the most obedient nephew of Uncle Sam. As he says, “Although you have millions and billions of nephews but you wouldn’t find a nephew like me even in atomic light; do turn your attention here once in a while, just one interesting gaze is enough. Just announce that your country, may God preserve it till world’s end, will give military aid to my country…”
Regime change is one of the national policies of the United States of America. It has a long history of intervening directly or indirectly in the national affairs of other countries. From world war II to the cold war, from Latin America to the Middle East, it has conspired against any government which refused to accept US-designed policies. Being a superpower, it believes in running the affairs of the world to fulfill its one-world government agenda. It can’t bear independent economic and foreign policies. PM Khan just said what he believed in his whole political career. From day one he was against US-dictated foreign policy. In his speeches, he criticized the role of America during the cold war and how it used Pakistan for its benefit.
If the superpower can’t bear the burden of just two words which are ‘absolutely not’ that were uttered by PM Khan during an interview with a US journalist Jonathan Swan, how can it afford independent economic policies, free from the clutches of the World Bank and IMF? Meanwhile, God has given another chance to PM Khan to learn from his mistakes. The way the people of Pakistan have stood with him is unknown to history. He has all the potential to lead this nation to a non-violent revolution. He just needs to work on his team. Perhaps a more workers-friendly and competent team can help him in making this country politically, economically, and socially stable.
