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The Complete Magazine for the Region JANUARY 2020 www.southasia.com.pk Same Page Saga The civilian government and the military may be on one page but the tenures of the Service Chiefs need to be clearly defined. PAKISTAN AFGHANISTAN MALDIVES LIBYA Terror Financing The Long Goodbye Playing Her Passion Sea of Blood 39 42 51 Cover Story 16 Civil and military relations in Pakistan are always walking a tight rope. New Delhi Kandahar Editor’s Desk 07 Live With Thy Neighbour 29 The Long Goodbye 35 Neighbour Lahore The Real Heroes 51 Readers’ Thoughts 08 Islamabad Kathmandu Tehran Countering Terror Financing 30 Kalapani 36 Meeting Challenges 39 Air Pollution Who Said That! 10 Toxic Tales 52 Dhaka Colombo Naypyidaw 57 Grapevine 11 The Sun, the Moon and the Truth 32 Return to Autocracy 37 Rogue State? 40 Mumbai Thimphu Banning The Preacher 54 News Buzz 12 International Between Giants 33 Malé Tripoli Playing her Passion 55 Cover Story Sea of Blood 42 The Control 16 26 California Around Town The Irony 18 Black and White 43 Maria B Winter Escape 57 The Dynamics 20 The Obstacles 22 Feature Reviews Lahore Books One-On-One Pakistani Advertising Needs to Mongolian Pot 58 Tania Aidrus 24 Up its Game 46 Pakistan, the Economy of an Elitist State 59 Region Lahore Documentary 48 Ayodhya Shaping The Future Journey into America 60 Mob Justice 26 Islamabad Film 49 Mumbai WOW is the Word Doctor Sleep 62 Flawed Democracy 27 4 SOUTHASIA • JANUARY 2020 39 42 51 Cover Story 16 Civil and military relations in Pakistan are always walking a tight rope. New Delhi Kandahar Editor’s Desk 07 Live With Thy Neighbour 29 The Long Goodbye 35 Neighbour Lahore The Real Heroes 51 Readers’ Thoughts 08 Islamabad Kathmandu Tehran Countering Terror Financing 30 Kalapani 36 Meeting Challenges 39 Air Pollution Who Said That! 10 Toxic Tales 52 Dhaka Colombo Naypyidaw 57 Grapevine 11 The Sun, the Moon and the Truth 32 Return to Autocracy 37 Rogue State? 40 Mumbai Thimphu Banning The Preacher 54 News Buzz 12 International Between Giants 33 Malé Tripoli Playing her Passion 55 Cover Story Sea of Blood 42 The Control 16 26 California Around Town The Irony 18 Black and White 43 Maria B Winter Escape 57 The Dynamics 20 The Obstacles 22 Feature Reviews Lahore Books One-On-One Pakistani Advertising Needs to Mongolian Pot 58 Tania Aidrus 24 Up its Game 46 Pakistan, the Economy of an Elitist State 59 Region Lahore Documentary 48 Ayodhya Shaping The Future Journey into America 60 Mob Justice 26 Islamabad Film 49 Mumbai WOW is the Word Doctor Sleep 62 Flawed Democracy 27 SOUTHASIA • JANUARY 2020 5 EDITor’S DESSLUGK Missing Logic The country is shocked over the completing his agenda of national development, he made Special Court verdict in the high a deal with the late Benazir Bhutto and issued the Na- treason case against General (R) tional Reconciliation Order (NRO) – an act that he subse- Pervez Musharraf. Irrespective of quently rued. the merits and demerits of the ver- Pervez Musharraf has now been sentenced to death dict, what makes the court’s deci- on charges of committing high treason when he promul- sion a matter of deep worry is the gated an Emergency on November 3, 2007. The verdict is dangerous precedent it has set for obviously a cause of pain and anguish to most people in the future of the state. Justice must the country – and to the armed forces as it has adversely always be dispensed in a manner that is just in its es- affected their morale. Having led Pakistan in a very distin- sence and as per laid down law. Unfortunately, the verdict guished manner, Musharraf now seems to be the target of in the case of Gen. (R) Pervez Musharraf appears to be an a blatant attempt at image vilification. The Pakistan armed example of judicial arrogance. This is the kind of attitude forces, one of the finest in the world, are highly perturbed that currently seems to be reigning supreme. However, it on seeing the former army chief being declared a ‘traitor’ is doing nothing but demoralising the nation and its armed and being fit to be sent to the gallows on account of high forces - the very people who are always ready to sacrifice treason – even after his death. their lives to defend the country. Paragraph 66 of the verdict of the Special Court, as If anything, Pervez laid down by a three-mem- Musharraf was never a ber bench led by the Chief ‘ghaddar’ – a traitor. As a Justice of the Peshawar soldier, he performed his High Court, the Honourable duties with full responsibility. Justice Waqar Seth, has He led the country with high spelled out the punishment distinction. When judged on of having his body hanged the basis of his nine-year tenure, he emerged as a leader for three days in Islamabad’s D Chowk. Serious questions with a clear future vision for the country. In the late 90s, have been asked as to the sheer brutality of the punish- when the country was on the brink of becoming a ‘failed ment, which is inhuman to the core and defies the values state’ owing to rampant corruption, political instability, upheld by any civilized society. More is the pity, that such economic bankruptcy and looming international isolation, inhuman treatment is proposed to be given to someone General Musharraf ended up leading the “most difficult who was always proud to be a Pakistani and a “soldier’s countries to govern,” in the words of Time Magazine. soldier”. It is also not comprehensible as to why has the During his 9-year tenure, he retrieved Pakistan’s lost im- Opposition maintained a studied silence over the whole age and earned for it a level of respect. He governed by affair? After all, even if they are not in power, they cannot devolving power to the grass-roots when he revived the divest themselves of their status as citizens of Pakistan. local government infrastructure and made a sincere at- The armed forces belong as much to them as to anyone tempt to lead the nation towards development and mod- else. The Opposition must be equally concerned about ernisation. He subsequently became a victim of his own looking for the missing logic in the judicial process. They over-ambitious approach when, in his desire to continue must join the nation in ensuring that the armed forces are being President of Pakistan, to get some more years for not defeated by their own people. Syed Jawaid Iqbal President & Editor in Chief SOUTHASIA • JANUARY 2020 7 READERS’ THOUGHTS Who Owns January 2020 VOL.24 ISSUE 1 Karachi? PRESIDENT & EDITOR IN CHIEF his is related to your December Syed Jawaid Iqbal T2019 cover story on the topic EDITOR ‘Who Owns Karachi?’. Karachi was Javed Ansari known as the cleanest city in Asia, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR S. G. Jilanee most commonly the city of lights and also the largest Muslim city in ASSISTANT EDITORS Faizan Usmani the world. Today, it has become a Syeda Areeba Rasheed governance nightmare as neither the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT city government nor the provincial Rafi Khan - UK government is willing to take ownership CONTRIBUTORS of what is Pakistan’s largest metropolis. Aadil Nakhoda – Amjad Ali Siyal – Atif Shamim Syed The city has been left rudderless Ayaz Ahmed – Dr Muhammad Babar Chohan Dr. Moonis Ahmar – Dr. Taseer Salahuddin leaving its population of over 2 million Hafiz Inam – Imran Jan – Justice (r) M. Shaiq Usmani surviving on its own. Karachi used to be Labbaba Jahangir – Major General (R) Inam Ul Haque the capital of the country until 1960 and continues to be Pakistan’s commercial Muhammad Ali Khan – Muhammad Omar Iftikhar Muhammad Waqar Rana – Nadya Chishty-Mujahid and industrial capital. It has grown at a very fast pace and its problems have also Noor Javed Sadiq – Prof. S. Shafiq-ur Rehman multiplied. In my view, Karachi and its problems need ownership as the city cannot S Akhtar Ali Shah – S.G Jilanee – S.R.H. Hashmi be left to survive on its own. Sabria Chowdhury Balland – Samar Quddus Siraj M. Shawa – Syed Kamran Hashmi Fahim Ahmed, Syeda Areeba Rasheed – Taha Kehar Karachi, Pakistan. GRAPHICS & LAYOUT Haroon Rasheed Kamran Ghulam Nabi Journeying into Riaz Masih - Hassan Raza Hussain, along with setting some new Future initiatives of his own. He had a guiding GENERAL MANAGER-MARKETING role in a great social and intellectual Syed Ovais Akhtar t gives me immense pleasure to transformation. He also emphasised PRODUCTION & COORDINATION Aqam-ud-Din Khan Iexpress my gratitude for the kind of the lack of schools producing good CIRCULATION & DISTRIBUTION work SouthAsia magazine is doing. I managers and leaders that could take Shehryar Zulfiqar can’t thank it enough for interviewing Dr Pakistan forward. EDITORIAL & BUSINESS OFFICE Farrukh Iqbal, the Executive Director of Amna Ilyas, 20-C, Lane 12, off Khayaban-e-Ittehad, Phase II the Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan. Extension, DHA, Karachi - 75500, Pakistan (IBA) Karachi, who is a gem of a person. Phones: 92-21- 35313821-24 Fax: 92-21-35313832 Being a current student of IBA, it felt great Great Work Website: www.southasia.com.pk to see him in the magazine, sharing his Email: [email protected] views regarding the institution, his tenure ith each passing day, people MIDDLE EAST at the centre and some future plans. 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